Maiuri continued eating with flawless elegance, maintaining perfect posture while calmly cutting another piece of food without spilling so much as a crumb. Her mature expression remained completely composed from beginning to end, and she never once glanced in his direction.
'Nah... it couldn't be her.'
His eyes slowly drifted toward the person sitting beside her.
Jonathan?
For one horrifying moment, an absolutely ridiculous thought surfaced inside Young Aether's mind.
"..."
His face gradually paled before he immediately shook his head.
'No. I'm definitely overthinking this! There is absolutely no way... He never swung that way'
He forcefully buried that terrifying possibility before it could grow any larger, although the hairs standing along the back of his neck stubbornly refused to settle.
