After training, Homura immediately saw that there was something wrong with the flower. His response at the time had been to shout at Umeda Toru over and over, "Throw it away, Kaori! Throw away that flower! Get rid of it now!"
Without explaining why, he had simply insisted that she throw the flower away as if possessed.
Qi Ming guessed that Homura had spent too long around Mamoru Shirogane and had been assimilated into a stubborn one-track mind. His verbal skills were so poor that he did not even know how to tell a well-intentioned lie.
But the girl accompanying Homura at the time had also been pretty ridiculous.
She had shielded Umeda Kaori, who wanted to keep the flower, held back Homura when he tried to forcibly take it, and said:
"How could such a beautiful, fragrant flower be a problem? Homura, you're way too unromantic."
"Girls love flowers. They can naturally sense whether a flower is poisonous."
"I think that if someone lacks the gentleness to appreciate the flowers by the roadside, then no matter how strong they are, it's meaningless."
That scene had left Qi Ming utterly bewildered at the time. He had been worried for their intelligence.
If it had been him...
Qi Ming stepped forward and crouched in front of Umeda Kaori.
He put on a surprised expression. "I've seen this flower in a book. It's highly poisonous!"
Umeda Kaori said, "How could such a pretty flower be poisonous? I wanted to put it in front of my mom and dad's picture."
Nagi Saijo added, "The brighter a flower is, the more likely it is to be poisonous."
Compared to the girl who had been beside Homura back then, Nagi Saijo, standing beside Qi Ming now, seemed perfectly normal.
Qi Ming patted Umeda Kaori's head.