Chapter 196 – Got You!
In another part of the testing ground, Omm coughed up a mouthful of water, struggling for a moment to breathe.
He dragged himself out of the river he had fallen into and onto the riverbank, where the soil was oddly covered in red stones bearing engravings.
"Why are you so weak?" Jeanne asked leisurely, sitting on the riverbank to the far left, her clothes soaked and clinging to her body.
Omm looked at her with puzzled eyes, then instinctively lowered them.
"Why… why did you do that, Miss Safara?"
"Jeanne."
"Pardon?"
"Call me Jeanne, Omm." Jeanne said with a commanding tone. "Not Miss Safara."
Omm's hazel eyes furrowed deeper, baffled by all of this.
What exactly was happening, and why was this woman so strange?
He pressed his lips together, sighed, and spoke again.
"J-Jeanne… why did you do that?"
"Do what?"
"Why did you take me with you when you fell?"
