Chapter 195 - 189. Afterglow
"You look good?" was the comment Zein received the most when he arrived at the guild.
They were quite late because Bassena didn’t really want to come and they ended up spending the time lazily chatting and eating the food prepared by the nanny. Because of this, Bassena was immediately got dragged by Lex to the top floor.
From the barista lady, to the kids on the seventh floor, and now, the member of the committee on the twelfth floor--Zein had received the same comment more than five times already. The last one was by Rina, who looked at him with sparkling eyes in the executive lounge in front of the reclamation committee’s headquarters.
"Thanks?" Zein tilted his head, a bit confused because the phrase this time was uttered like a question.
"No, but seriously," Rina took a seat beside the guide and kept staring at him. "You’ve been looking like you carried the whole world on your shoulder or something lately, but you seem much better now."
So it was that apparent? Zein never looked in the mirror, so he had no idea how bad his facial expression was the past few weeks--especially last week, after he found out about what happened during the spirit attack. Moreover, no one was courageous enough to ask him about it--now when even Bassena Vaski couldn’t.
But now that he looked friendly again, people started to be comfortable enough to comment about it.
"Is that so?"
"Yeah, you looked glowing," Rina made a frame with her thumbs and index fingers, peeking at the guide through it, before pursing her lips. "As if you’re not beautiful enough already."
"You can’t even see my face," Zein rolled his eyes.
"I can see your pretty eyes," Rina grinned, leaning closer to observe the brilliant blue eyes, sparkling like a jewel reflecting the sunlight, deep and rich and mesmerizing--unlike the dull, darkened gaze lurking before. "If I see your face right now, I might really fall in love~" she said while teasingly glancing at Azur who sat on the side.