At the Magic Association's front courtyard, as the Shadow Magic dissipated, the scattered shadows of the Chinese parasol trees were also driven away, and the unsetting sun cast its afterglow in, piling a thick layer of clouds at the horizon's end, with lonely stars in the distance.
Miss Enya was forcibly pulled out of the Shadow realm by An Su, into that area enveloped in rosiness.
Even at this moment, her breath was still somewhat rapid, and her heart was still pounding fiercely.
She had thought that she would no longer experience such hasty emotions. In fact, since that incident, she had lost all normal human emotions. An Su once considered her an alien, which wasn't a derogation but an objective statement.
But now, Enya could clearly hear her own heartbeat; she could feel her slightly disordered breathing, thin and moist, gently hitting the young man's chest in the slightly cold autumn night, as if veiled by a light gauze.