Just as Kraft was struggling to figure out how to communicate with this alien, Arale, the little troublemaker, suddenly jumped out, pulled off her head, and greeted him.
"How are you?"
But even after Arale took her head off, the alien remained perfectly calm and silent.
"How are you? How are you? How are you..."
Yet the single-minded Arale had no idea what giving up meant. She put her head back on her neck and bounced around him, calling out, "How are you?" Eventually, she even climbed onto the alien and tugged at his face, pulling it into all sorts of funny expressions.
"Hahahahaha!"
Arale burst out laughing at the faces she had made, then kept going...
Since Kraft was genuinely curious about how this strange alien would react, he did nothing to stop Arale's extremely rude behavior.
The alien was good-natured, too. No matter what Arale did to him, he stood there quietly without saying a word.
And so Arale grew even more outrageous. She took a permanent marker out of her pocket and showed off her artistic talents on the mysterious alien's enormous head.
"Hahahahaha!"
After drawing three piles of poop, one eye, six whiskers, a pair of oversized front teeth, and a bowl cut on the alien's face, Arale rolled on the floor, clutching her stomach and laughing wildly.
Even after being treated like this, the mysterious alien gave no response. He simply blinked gently, and the doodles on his face vanished. Then he continued quietly watching Arale, who was still laughing her head off.
"The universe is vast... and full of wonders..."
Kraft couldn't help marveling. To think there were aliens this bizarre. Was this some kind of performance art that was popular across the universe?
After watching Arale torment the strange alien for quite a