Something changed about Aria.
No, calling it a change is an understatement.
It was better to say that she had seemingly transformed entirely into another person altogether.
The Aria that he knew, even after becoming friends with some of the male characters in the novel, was never this... clingy after all, even after witnessing some of them die a gruesome death.
At most, she just simply shed tears for them.
But that was it.
She never fully clung onto them desperately like this.
And while the reason why Aria had never been this clingy before in the novel could be attributed to the fact that she knew about Aurora's regression ability already before she even became close with some of them to begin with and knew that she'll end up seeing them alive again in the next timeline, Eric still felt that there was something much more deeper than that when it came to him specifically.
Regardless, that wasn't entirely important right now, since...
