Liu Bai vaguely remembered Rita mentioning it when she tidied his room that morning.
If nothing unexpected had happened, Mei must have thrown it down there last night.
"Behind the door?" Herta turned to glance at the open door.
Behind the door?
Wasn't that the corner?
"...Why did you put it there?"
Still, Herta barely managed to remain rational.
—The reason was simple: Herta herself often tossed her dolls into corners she might not even remember afterward for all sorts of reasons.
"Because... it accidentally got knocked down while we were sleeping last night. Rita saw it while cleaning up this morning and put it there."
Liu Bai chose to cover for Mei.
Herta's expression eased considerably upon hearing that.
It had been knocked down while they were sleeping? Then it was fine. Understandable.
She often knocked things over too.
Herta turned around, closed the door, and picked up the specially made doll from the corner.
"This doll is best kept beside the bed, or on the pillow."
Without allowing any argument, Herta placed the doll on Liu Bai's bed.
But as she drew closer, Herta suddenly spotted something else that she had failed to see because of her angle.
"—Are you that bored?" Herta's tone suddenly darkened—a sign that her anger was rising.
This time, the easygoing genius had truly reached the brink of an outburst.
Because she had seen a competitor.
—Xueyi.
"What's wrong?" Liu Bai asked in confusion.
"What is this?" Herta pointed at Xueyi, curled up on the bed.
"Xueyi's puppet body." Liu Bai answered as if it were obvious. "Before leaving on a business trip today, Xueyi put it on my bed and said I could use it however I wanted... Though this thing should count as some kind of 'shameful object,' right? Who says