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"Theo..."

It was nothing more than a weak voice struggling to cut away from all the tiny noises made by the nearby trees and their leaves moving in the wind.

The woods within the perimeter of Theo's claim were already unusually silent—likely a result of the ongoing waves of challengers scaring everything and anything alive away from the area, leaving behind nothing but the immovable plants.

Still, even those plants appeared to be frozen, somehow minimizing how much they moved around or how much noise they produced, as if everything that was biologically alive could only seek hope in completely eradicating its presence.

And yet, even in this near-perfect silence, this voice, this damned voice...

'Tsk...'

As much as Theo wanted to investigate more, as much as he wanted to delve deeper into the feeling this faint voice awakened inside of him, as much as he wanted to figure out just how the heck this girl knew his name...