His expression slowly changed.
The memory finally connected.
He had fallen.
The Cockatrice-like monsters.
Andre.
The cliff.
The river.
The Forest.
Everything lined up.
Then...
His smile disappeared.
"...Andre."
Silence answered him.
He looked around.
No footprints.
No body.
No signs of anyone.
Only the aftermath of battle.
Kai scratched the back of his head.
"...You're probably alive."
He laughed quietly to himself.
"...You always are."
Andre was absurdly difficult to kill.
If anyone could survive being stranded in a desert...
It would probably be him.
"...You'll yell at me later."
Kai climbed back onto the hovercraft.
"I'll take that over finding your corpse."
The engine started again.
The mountain slowly disappeared behind him.
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The road became familiar.
Very familiar.
Kai had traveled it before.
Only now...
He wasn't the same person.
He could sense mana.
He understood pieces of a forgotten language.
He had memories that weren't his.
Or rather—
Were his.
Just...
Not from this life.
He looked at his own hands.
"...Magic Circuits..."
He quietly muttered.
"...So that's my next step."
Not now.
Soon.
Very soon.