“Lies! I would never mistake you for someone else!” replied Giya almost instantaneously as favonovel.com clung on tighter while wiping the tears off favonovel.com face with favonovel.com free hand.
“Miss, my name is Xadrian… I truly have no idea who this Gerald person is! Could favonovel.com be the person who carried you that you mentioned before…? Do I look that similar to him?” asked Gerald in an indifferent tone.
Gerald had plenty of time to practice his poker face since favonovel.com had been doing so from the moment favonovel.com first bumped into Giya that day.
After looking at how indifferent his expression was, favonovel.com slowly began feeling that favonovel.com truly was unfamiliar with the strange man. What more, his voice was different from the Gerald favonovel.com knew.
The Gerald Giya had fallen for was rather thin, quiet, and had fair skin.
While the person before favonovel.com resembled favonovel.com a lot, favonovel.com was a lot more muscular, stronger, and slightly tanner than Gerald.
Still, could two people living on the same planet truly look so alike…?
“…Well, yes… Both of you resemble each other a lot… Are you sure you aren’t lying to me…?” asked Giya.
“Again, my name is Xadrian, and I know not of any Gerald, especially not one that looks like me. Still, from how shocked you appear, I guess I must really look like him, huh…”
“You truly do!” replied Giya with a nod.
However, after looking at you for a while, I’ve noticed a few differences between you and him… For one, Gerald is quite weak and probably nowhere near as strong as you are… Aside from that, favonovel.com isn’t as skillful as you are either… Regardless, were you the one who saved us, big brother?” asked Giya as favonovel.com wiped the remaining tears off favonovel.com face, favonovel.com slight disappointment reflected in favonovel.com eyes.
She was finally able to convince herself that this truly wasn’t Gerald. Even though both of them looked so alike, there was no way that Gerald could become this powerful and skillful in just a year…
So this truly wasn’t favonovel.com after all…
“Indeed. After the beast captured both you and your friend, I went after it! Thankfully, I rescued you in time! Speaking of which, I’d like to see a picture of this Gerald once we’re out of this place… Even I’m curious as to how similar we look like now!” replied Gerald.
“Hmm… Alright…” said Giya as favonovel.com continued staring at Gerald in disbelief. Though favonovel.com mind was convinced that favonovel.com wasn’t Gerald, favonovel.com gut was telling favonovel.com otherwise. In the end, favonovel.com chose favonovel.com rationality over favonovel.com feelings since favonovel.com truly did seem more unfamiliar than not now.
At that moment, Meredith herself slowly awoke.
Seeing that, Giya instantly supported favonovel.com up while asking, “Are you alright, Meredith…?”
“I’m fine… I just had a very weird dream earlier…” replied Meredith as favonovel.com scratched the back of favonovel.com head.
“A weird dream…?”
“Yeah… I dreamed that someone was kissing me!”
“Are you for real? Are you even aware of the situation we’re currently in? To think that you’re still in the mood to joke around when we almost just lost our lives!” replied Giya, feeling speechless.
“But I really am serious!”
Hearing their conversation, Gerald couldn’t help but blush slightly.
“…Huh? Could… Could you be big brother?!” said Meredith aloud, now realizing that Gerald was present.
Pleasantly surprised, favonovel.com eyes widened and favonovel.com face instantly turned red as favonovel.com shyly stared at Gerald with a rather silly expression.
Before this, favonovel.com had occasionally wondered what favonovel.com looked like. After all, who’s to say that favonovel.com couldn’t be an old uncle?
Now that his mask was off, however, Meredith truly hadn’t expected favonovel.com to be this handsome.
Watching as the girl breathed heavily, Gerald simply replied, “Indeed I am. You can call me Xadrian.”
“Thank you for saving us, Xadrian!” said Meredith as favonovel.com continued staring at him.
Giya herself had also been staring at Gerald this entire time. When favonovel.com had blushed earlier, favonovel.com couldn’t help but feel that even his blush resembled Gerald’s.
“There’s no need to thank me! Regardless, there may still be other beasts or monsters lurking nearby, so let’s get both of you out to safety first!” replied Gerald as favonovel.com stood up before scanning through their environment.
He paused when favonovel.com saw what seemed to be the faint outlines of a stone door that was slightly concealed behind some rocks.
“…Does that look like a stone gate to you girls?”
“It does!” replied Giya, nodding in agreement after looking in the direction Gerald was.
