"Xu Le... you're back?"
It was hard to tell whether that tone held nostalgia or some other emotion.
Xu Le himself wondered whether anyone could really like someone with the original owner's personality.
Yet the woman before him really did share a long history with the original owner. They had been innocent childhood companions, growing up, studying, and even dating together.
But the original owner had buried that memory completely among countless trivial incidents.
It seemed to be something he was utterly unwilling to remember.
This woman also seemed to have been part of the reason the original owner had left Zion for Lighthouse.
She was Xu Le's former girlfriend, his true childhood sweetheart, Li Qingcheng.
They had both gained admission to Zion University of Technology, but after their relationship became public, Li Qingcheng's parents had broken them up.
The original owner could neither prevail against them nor afford to offend them, so he had left Zion for Lighthouse.
Before leaving, he really had left them with a line.
"Don't look down on..."
Thinking about it now, the original owner was already done for, wasn't he?
Xu Le pushed up the glasses on his nose and said with a hint of reflection:
"Yeah, I'm back."
He was reflecting on how the original owner had hidden such a profound memory, but Li Qingcheng thought he was reflecting on their past.
"Xu Le, a few days ago, I became a Zion Enforcer. That was our shared dream."
An Enforcer? It seemed to be a profession somewhere between the Night Watchers and the Guard.
But their shared dream?
Xu Le felt that his current dream was to grow the Lightning Fruit as quickly as possible, then raise his Warlock level nice and high and go back to slaughter Xiong Zemo.
"It's great that