Chapter 48: Your Insides...? Will you marry me!?

Curious, Romulus looked down. "Is she waking up…?" Not even two seconds after asking this, the crystal erupted with an even greater light. Then, like an illusory fairy from the heavens above, Frostella descended from the sky and elegantly tapped against the ground.

The first thing she did was stare at Romulus. "You," she began. "You have grown stronger, and by so much… I have only been in slumber for a few hours, so how have you become so strong? That is unless…"

"Was I out for years—!?"

"No," Romulus denied immediately, not even giving her enough time to let the shock creep up her covered face. Oddly enough, she was a little disappointed. "So, you are just a freak…?" She asked. To which he said, "That is not a very nice way to put it, but yes, I am different."

"I see," Frostella said thoughtfully. "And the Herder?"

"Dead."

"...I see…"