Watching Zai Jiu Xunge flee in her little boat, Maple Sugar gave two derisive chuckles.
Song Gui, who had been avoiding Zai Jiu Xunge's gaze all this time, stirred slightly between the brows and turned thoughtfully toward Maple Sugar.
As luck would have it, Que Chengbomang and Fuqing Moji, standing nearby, also looked over.
Maple Sugar: ...What was that supposed to mean?
Even Xie Xie joined in, hopping onto the railing and scurrying over to Maple Sugar in tiny steps, getting right up in her face. "When that Little Mechanical Race member said that, did you..."
Maple Sugar cut it off firmly. "No."
Song Gui said, "It hadn't even finished. How did you know what you weren't doing?"
Maple Sugar: Whose side are you on?
Whichever side Song Gui was on, Maple Sugar retreated not long after Zai Jiu Xunge fled.
Xie Xie laughed for a while, then noticed Tiger Ear Que Que staring into space. The rain above her head pattered down, yet she had not put on her hood.
In the "Card Swap" game, Xie Xie and Tiger Ear Que Que had both studied at the Twilight Library. They had even enrolled in the same year.
Remembering that Tiger Ear Que Que had marked Zai Jiu Xunge as her Target Player, Xie Xie could not help asking curiously, "Why have you set your sights on Zai Jiu Xunge too?"
"Rein in your imagination." Tiger Ear Que Que came back to herself. She looked in the direction Zai Jiu Xunge had left, where that Golden Rain Curtain was still visible, and said, "I want her to come to Tiger Ear... because that never-ending rain above her head makes her look like one of my people."
Xie Xie fell silent. That was too difficult to respond to. It did not