Chapter 291 - 283. Stealing Thunder
How could it be that they never talked about this before?
Bassena knew Zein awakened when the man was ten, but he had never thought, in his wildest imagination, that they awakened on the same day. It almost felt like a dream, like a...fate.
Parting his lips in a daze of amazement, Bassena stared unblinking at the guide, his guide, as if the man himself was a miracle.
"What? Wait..." Abel, who finally finished putting on his tie correctly, turned around to look at the esper and Zein. "Are you telling me...you’re awakened on the same day?"
"Seemed so," Zein said with a brand of tenderness that got Abel quite taken aback since he had never heard it before.
Because Zein did not wear his mask this time, Abel didn’t have to read the expression just from his eyes. So it was easier to see the way Zein’s cold countenance softened, glowing softly as if a nightlight was shining from within.
It was such a beautiful sight that made Able understand why the Bassena Vaski always looked so spellbound with his guide. Like now, when the mighty, newly-ranked-fifth-in-the-Federation Serpent Lord was so lovestruck he hadn’t been blinking for a whole minute, cheeks red and frozen.
"Oh, no," Abel shook his head. "No, no, no!" he turned to look back at Zein, whose face had been returning to his usual, nonchalant one. "Just to make it clear, today is my day, okay?"
Zein raised his brow at the usually tame guide who now had his hands on his hips, staring sternly at the couple as if they were about to crash his wedding or something. The wedding he had been preparing with all his patience and mental health for the past half a year.
"Pfft—" Zein chuckled and patted the skeptical groom. "I know, I know..."
But Abel shifted his gaze toward Bassena and pointed at the esper threateningly. "If you’re trying to propose or something today, I’m going to kill you."