Chapter 1002: Reunion
Hesta suddenly raised her left arm, using the spikes to block an attack from the left—a small girl rushed out of the dark alley with a short knife in hand, her steps unsteady. Hesta easily forced her back.
The man took the chance to flee to one side, but the spike descending from Hesta's right hand still carved a deep gash above his left cheek.
Hesta rose and seized the small girl by the shoulder. Just as the girl was about to strike, Hesta twisted both her arms behind her back. She screamed in pain but still shouted at the man, "Teacher, run!"
Hesta frowned slightly—Chelated Beings could cooperate, but she had never seen one risk herself to save another like this.
"...I'm not a Chelated Being," the man said as he stood and raised both hands. "Neither is she. We—"
"Boheng?"
The air fell silent for a moment.
The little girl Hesta had caught also looked up in surprise—she had heard the large person who had just been trying to kill her teacher suddenly call him by name.
Their eyes met. Through the smoke, they stared at each other's faces, trying to overlay the outlines of childhood memories onto the person before them.
"...Jane?" Boheng murmured. He could barely find any trace of his former companion in this black-haired Quicksilver Needle. Only those eyes, in a few fleeting moments, seemed to carry the same wariness and stubbornness as Jane's.
Hesta's throat moved slightly. She released the girl, who immediately hurried behind Boheng.
"I... we..."
Boheng was at a loss for words, and Hesta said nothing. She lowered her head, pulled out paper and a pen from her pocket, quickly wrote two lines, then removed a key from the ring at her waist. Wrapping it in the