"...You?"
"Long time no see…
...beggar."
Van slowly stepped out from behind Vanya as he blinked his eyes a couple of times, trying to check if the young man that was slowly walking towards them was truly who he thought it was. But with just a minute glance, he quickly confirmed his guess.
"Gerald… you were alive as well?"
It made sense that he was alive since the friends that Charles mentioned that were with Victoria were probably Harvey and the others. But still, he couldn't help but ask as he truly did not expect to see Gerald here of all places, or at all.
He didn't even have a hard time recognizing him, unlike Charles, whose face had already turned to that of an old man, the changes on Gerald's face were minimal, almost non-existent. Was Van wrong? Did Gerald actually get here at a later time like him?
"Of course I am, did you really think some time-travel fiasco was enough to kill someone like me?"
"Time… travel?"
