Chapter 317: Hello – A Friendly Interlude Between Humans and Non-Humans
The man looked incredibly young—no older than twenty, at most.
He had long, silvery-white hair that fell in loose, slightly wavy strands. Still damp, it draped over his shoulders and cascaded down his body, concealing most of him from view.
Amid the sea of white were two locks of jet-black hair. They grew from the crown of his head and hung down in front of his temples on either side. Their perfectly symmetrical placement, together with the familiar black-and-white color scheme, immediately brought the great whale to mind.
Even more whale-like were the man’s eyes.
They were large, tranquil black eyes with a gentle warmth to them. Their outer corners drooped ever so slightly, giving him an innocent expression. Framed by thick, long silver-white eyelashes, they reminded Everly of the sleeping-eyed angel dolls from a certain doll brand whenever he lowered his gaze.
Encircling each black iris was a flawless ring of pure Klein blue, fitted seamlessly around its outer edge. The structure was almost identical to the great whale’s eyes, making it difficult not to suspect a connection between the two at first glance.
Curiously, when those blue-ringed eyes belonged to the whale, they had simply seemed beautiful. But now that they were part of a human—or rather, a humanoid—face, Everly suddenly realized that the blue rings resembled the eyes of androids from science fiction. They carried a cold, futuristic sharpness and an unmistakably inhuman quality. The result was oddly contradictory: the man looked both gentle and unyielding, pure yet unfathomably complex, wrapped in an aura that was at once mysterious and paradoxical.
Purely in terms of appearance, he was someone impossible to ignore.
“Hah… haaah…”