"Sounds like the perfect place to practice your sword skills, right?," Zhen Liu asked with a cheeky smile. "Nothing polishes your sword skills more than fighting a superior cloned version of yourself."
"That sounds correct but wrong at the same time," Lythero retorted. "But I'm not sure why."
"Probably because-"
[Greee!]
"Huh?"
[Gree! Greee!]
"Really?"
While in the middle of a conversation, Lythero and Zhen Liu found themselves interrupted by another of the latter's zakos.
This particular zako was one of the ones made from the jungle's leaves and was sent out for the purpose of making sure nothing and no one had decided to stalk the duo.
For the past few days, the zakos hadn't found anything other than the occasional leopard or tiger aether beast attempting to be smarter than they actually were.
This time, however, the caught something unexpected.
A human.