Instead, she took the initiative, reaching out with a soft hand to gently pinch his cheek. Her eyes narrowed slightly, a sly, mischievous smile playing on her lips as she asked in a gentle voice:
"Do you like it?"
"Yeah!"
Lloyd nodded vigorously.
"Hehe, that's good. After all, I suppose I'm your [Projection], right? It would be terrible if you didn't like me…"
The girl spoke playfully, a sweet smile on her face. Then, like a graceful mermaid, she glided to Lloyd's side and took his hand as a lover would.
"I know you must have a lot you want to say to me, but let's wait until we get back, okay?"
Lloyd froze for a moment. Only then did he realize that time around him had started flowing again. In an instant, he was pulled from that dimension of Space and found himself back in the library.
It was as if everything that had just happened was merely a hallucination.
But the soft, warm touch still lingering on his fingers told him that it had all been real.
