Daru's gaze turned serious, a fiery grin tugging on the corners of his mouth.
Across from them was an unlikely duo of a Veshari and a Vyrrkan. He recognized the Veshari, and she him, much more intensely.
Her pupils constricted for a moment, then turned cold, as though she wanted to kill him with her gaze.
"You! Onimaru Kunitsuna!" she snarled, greatly surprising the SSS-ranker Vyrrkan beside her, Karzalkhatun.
Elara, too, was taken aback at the anger in her tone.
"You know her?"
"You know him?"
The two companions asked simultaneously.
The Vyrrkan was a bit dumbfounded to find an S-ranker in this inter-racial novice event, especially since even an SSS-ranker like her was barely surviving in this hellish place.
She even had to team up with a little Veshari she met on the way, as she was a bit lacking in the brains department.
The Veshari gritted her teeth, nodding.
