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Kaisei
“Ana…? Ana, are you all right?” Kaisei asked, “You suddenly look… pale…”
I kept staring at him motionless. There were tons of thoughts crowding inside my head, raising the level of panic in my body mercilessly.
“Have I, by chance, just encountered the son of Hiro's greatest enemy?!” my mind was about to explode, but I had to do everything to calm down.
I desperately tried to find the way to deal with this situation. Should I inform Hiro right away? But, how could I do it without raising any suspicions? I could only picture myself trying to act “normally”, which in case would DEFINITELY backfire right away. I decided to play it “cool” for some time at least…
“So… you are Kaisei… Tsuchida?” I voiced out forcing myself to smile.
“Yes. Oh… I just realized that I don't know your full name,” he laughed, scratching his foreh
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