"Huh?"
Rosalina blinked, her black eyes trembling with confusion before his question finally sank in. A look of disbelief spread across her face, followed by amused exasperation.
"After all these years, that's the first thing you ask me?" she said, placing a hand on her hip. "My age? Don't you know I'm already taken?"
Leon immediately waved both hands in denial, his usually composed expression breaking apart as embarrassment crept across his face.
"N-No, that's not what I meant. It's just that..."
Rosalina couldn't hold back a quiet laugh.
"Relax. I was only teasing you." She smiled before adding casually, "It's because I'm thirty-one years old now."
The smile on Leon's face froze.
"...What?"
His blue eyes widened in genuine shock as he stared at her, trying to determine whether she was joking.
"But... how?" he asked after a long pause. "Weren't we the same age?"
Confusion filled his voice. He had known Rosalina since they were children.
