The blazing sun baked the earth.
Ever since the Indigo Conference, for some unknown reason, temperatures had suddenly soared, and the weather had grown increasingly hot.
Male cicadas hidden somewhere chirped tirelessly, their racket enough to drive anyone to distraction.
Amid this sweltering heat, two travelers, a man and a woman, arrived from afar and entered Blue Point, a famous resort in the Kanto region.
Blue Point was as lively as ever. People shopped, surfed, swam, and played beach volleyball. It seemed that even the hottest summer could not stop them from pouring out their enthusiasm.
The streets were packed, but anyone passing this striking pair could not help stealing a few extra glances.
Both were around twenty years old. The woman was beautiful, her long, silky black hair streaming behind her in the occasional sea breeze. Her delicate, coolly beautiful face made many men's hearts flutter.
The man beside her was tall and slender, but with a baseball cap and a large pair of sunglasses on, it was impossible to tell exactly what he looked like.
Needless to say, these two were Xia You and Sabrina, who had left the Indigo Plateau.
They walked side by side, looking like a perfect match to everyone around them.
Yet Sabrina frowned slightly as she felt people's gazes on her, deeply uncomfortable.
"Why are they all looking at us like that?"
Xia You chuckled. "I can tell you didn't go out much before, did you? If I ran into a beautiful woman like you on the street, I'd stare too, just like them!"
Now that was the art of conversation!
Not only had he answered her question beautifully, but he had also followed her lead and slipped in a seamless compliment.
Sure enough, Sabrina's lips curved upward at the flattery. She clearly