Zeke's heart quivered at the sight of a silver-haired woman standing several steps away behind Ruka. His entire being froze at the sight. It was like he could not believe what his eyes were seeing. For a moment, everything in him – his heartbeat, his mind, his every sense stopped working and was in stasis.
Until he blinked hard a few times to clear his vision. It cannot be… this was… just not possible…
He believed that his eyes must have been playing tricks on him. He must be missing her so much that his mind had conjured up a very life-like image of her, to the point that he was even hearing her voice! That was the only logical explanation he could think of right now. And yet… everything within him seems to start trembling. Just the sight of her rocked his entire world in an instant. It was like an explosion of a myriad of emotions filled him up. Wonder. Excitement. Shock. Confusion. Doubt. Anxiety. And… overwhelming love.
His feet then began to move before his mind could even register it was doing so. His gaze never left her figure. Never blinking even once, for fear that she would just disappear in a blink of an eye. Even if this was such an amazingly life-like illusion, he wanted to see her even for a bit longer. Just a bit longer. He would be satisfied with that.
Holy hell… she looked so perfectly like his Alicia. And she looked so… real. What kind of sorcery was this?
Zeke fought not to quicken his pace. The fear that she would vanish once he reached her and stretched out his hand to touch her, grew so strong within just a few moments that his heart was shuddering in his chest.
Everything seemed to cease from his reality. It was now just him and his goddess right there.
And at that moment, he wished and pleaded desperately in his heart that whatever this sorcery was, it would not end just yet. Gods… just be merciful to him and allow him this moment of fantasy for just a little while longer.
"E… Ezekiel…" The Alicia look-alike opened her mouth and called out his name again, her voice so identical to his wife that it was giving him palpitations. And he watched as her expression changed. Tears began to pool in her eyes as her lips trembled, causing Zeke to widen his eyes in disbelief.
"A… Alicia…??" he finally uttered her name, allowing that tiny spark of hope to believe that she was real and here with him. And then she rushed towards him, crushing herself into him.
Zeke had shut his eyes tightly in a mixture of anticipation and anxiousness. He thought that he was going to get struck by reality once her body went through his like a mirage. But he was wrong. She crashed into him, causing him to take a couple of steps back from the force of her running to him. Her body… her… holy hell…!!
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