A Stunning Truth

"Laia?" John asked, to which Zeras' vigorously nodded again!.

"Yes! Laia!" Zeras boomed boisterously, as if he were truly having fun at the moment. He studied Lilian's face as John mentioned Laia, but found only confusion on her face. A bewildered expression appeared on Zeras' face as he turned his attention back to John.

"Have you not told your master about Laia?" Zeras asked questioningly.

His father, the Astral Emperor, had seen John and Laia together many months ago in Alliance City. They had been seated next to the picturesque lake together when he arrived, and he had immediately noticed that Laia had given John her soul seed, connecting the two of them and their fates permanently. 

She had done so for them to survive the hellish tribulation John had gone through, and had warned him that accepting the soul seed would bring perilous danger in the future. John accepted the danger, and from that moment on, the two had become linked.