"What happened, Lucia?" Jaden asked when he noticed that she did not look even remotely as excited as she should have been about the bet, her gaze fixed on the arena with an unease that stood out sharply against the surrounding chatter and anticipation.
"The person Raul is battling is Max, right?" Lucia asked quietly as she turned toward Jaden, her tone careful as if she were testing a thought she did not fully want to voice.
"Yeah, what about him?" Jaden replied, frowning slightly as he tried to read her expression.
Lucia frowned deeper, her brows knitting together as a vague sense of familiarity stirred in her mind, and she wondered if this was the same Max she had once encountered during one of the mortal worlds she had visited long ago, a memory so distant and unclear that it felt foolish to cling to it, prompting her to murmur to herself that she was probably overthinking things.
