"I've been looking for this thing forever."
"It's only been one day, though?"
"B-but this is my whole life!" March 7th's clever brain immediately came up with an irrefutable answer.
"Um..." Star was stunned by March 7th's shamelessness.
This was bad. She seemed unable to refute that.
(Come to think of it, why did March want this stick?)
...No, there was no need to think about it.
March 7th must have seen Liu Bai celebrating with other women somewhere.
She wanted to watch too.
Ahem. So March 7th's bizarre reasoning had led her to focus on finding the stick.
"...March, do you think the stick you saw before looked like this?"
Star's mind turned, and she immediately came up with a strategy to fool March 7th.
"It's similar, but not the same."
After examining it, March 7th shook her head.
"Then how about I take you to find one that looks even more like it tomorrow?"
Star, who had once been fooled like a child, had now started fooling children herself.
But March 7th wasn't the same as she had been back then, and she was clearly not that easy to deceive.
March 7th's excellent spirit of skepticism kept her from immediately agreeing to Star's proposal.
"You're not going to trick me, are you?"
"Uh... I won't!"
Star shook her head vigorously.
"But didn't you hesitate just now?" March 7th grew even more suspicious.
"No~~~"
"Suspicious."
"Anyway, there's no benefit in us fighting over this now. Why don't we settle it like this—we're friends, aren't we!"
"Um... o-okay."
March 7th hesitated for a moment, then ultimately decided to trust her friend.
Star finally let out a breath of relief—she had learned that line from Guinaifen.
But... she remembered that after Guinaifen said those words to Firefly, Firefly had gone berserk.