"Drop it, Alice!"
"Don't be afraid——!"
A loud shout echoed through the 'Valley', bouncing between peaks of the Pyramid and resonating in everyone's hearts.
Alice and the crow on her shoulder both turned their heads, the latter's crimson red eyes flashed a cold light, while the girl's eyes widened in disbelief at the sight of the boy above the 'peak' of the Pyramid —— Fang Hong stood alone, as if amidst an army, but he had truly arrived as promised.
Her hand trembled involuntarily, and she stopped altogether, slightly opening her mouth as a surge of suppressed emotions —— unease and fear burst forth in her heart, leaving her completely frozen in place with a complicated expression that seemed to narrate:
"Mr. Ade, I..."
At that moment, Fang Hong's appearance was utterly wretched, his alchemist's coat tattered like a beggar's, his face etched with dust and fatigue, but only his eyes remained unyieldingly firm, making him appear to the onlookers like a god descended to earth.
