246 First Contact

"...Eh, are you sure we're taking the right path, Jack? Because it is really starting to feel like we're lost."

"What do you mean I am the only one here without any sense of direction? You're the one that went to the path of the Devil, Xanthus."

"I know, I know, Miss Lu Yi. Sorry, it's just that I am starting to get impatient. How long has it been anyway?"

"What!? We've been roaming around for 20 years!?"

A young man with a bright, glowing golden hair was floating aimlessly in a vast and almost empty darkness. And even though the young man's mouth was moving, not even a single sound escaped from it.

But still, the young man continued to talk. If anyone could perhaps see him, then they would have thought that he was some kind of crazy person. But alas, right now, another presence other than the young man would be next to impossible…