"I need to take this."
Kiernan walked away with the phone in hand, and looked at the name on his phone screen with a puzzled expression.
It felt odd for Azer to suddenly want to call him, but maybe he just wanted to catch up, as his roots grew deep in Irio.
With a button press, he accepted the call, and put the phone right next to his ear.
"Hello, Azer?"
He sat down on the lobby chair.
"Hello~"
A voice came from the other side of the phone.
It wasn't Azer's voice—and how could he tell that?—because the voice was a woman's, which he had never heard of before.
"Who is this?"
Kiernan asked with a frown.
"Search your heart. You will know who this is. And once you figure that out, then we can continue talking."
The woman said with a giggle.
She sounded really playful, but there was something really off about this as well, Kiernan could feel it in his gut.
"…Mercedes?"
Kiernan said coldly.
"Bingo~ Hello fellow Earthling!"
Mercedes laughed on the other side of the phone.
