"Akerman?"
Conrad repeated, it rang out louder in his mind than it did in his voice, it was cracked and barely above a whisper, but it didn't take away from the shock he felt at that moment. His breath hitched and his eyes were wider than they should have been.
That name. He had only ever associated with two people, the siblings of Meliora Lynn Akerman and Fern Kael Akerman. Hearing it being associated with another person was a first for him.
'What are the odds?'
Connie internally questioned himself. What were the odds indeed?
In the Sovereign State, it was quite uncommon, or it was a rarity for two families to identify with the same last name, let alone two different people being called by the same name.
That was how much weight they bore in this State.
Then, there was no mistaking it…
'He must be one of them'
Without a doubt in his mind, his physical resemblance to the two was way too similar for it to be a mistake.
