"Why… Why are the two of you here?" I asked, my voice trembling. Fear gripped me. Why them? How is Malrang talking?
"You two aren't real, right? Malrang, you can't talk—I know that," I said, refusing to believe what I saw.
"She recently evolved," Seong-Hoon interrupted, his tone casual and infuriatingly familiar. "You should've seen it. It was epic."
I stared at him, the same annoying idiot, as if he'd never left.
"We got teleported here from Luminara Palace," he continued. "We were in the middle of planning to look for you. It's been too long, Gaon. All news about you disappeared. Where have you been?"
Malrang jumped to my shoulder, her soft voice cutting through my panic.
"Where have you been, Gaon?" she asked, her concern evident.
I didn't know how to respond. My throat tightened.