"Here."
In a park, Fang Li handed the ice cream he had just bought to the girl sitting on the bench, speaking as though drained of energy.
"Once you eat this, you're not allowed to cry anymore."
At that, the girl who called herself Misaka Misaka's eyes lit up.
"Got it! Misaka Misaka answers swiftly!"
Saying that, the girl snatched the ice cream from Fang Li's hand at top speed and immediately took a huge bite.
"So cold! But so delicious! It's cold when it goes down, but somehow my heart feels warm! Could this be what they call happiness!? Misaka Misaka loudly announces her discovery of a new world, tempting an acquaintance she has just met who has no ice cream!"
With her mouth smeared all over, the girl kept biting into the ice cream in her hand like a squirrel gnawing on chestnuts, her voice cheerful and her expression delighted.
"Normally, you lick that instead of biting it..."
Fang Li could only say so helplessly. Yet he did not expect this free-spirited girl to listen. He simply sat down beside her, sipping his drink as he glanced at the girl calling herself Misaka Misaka.
"I didn't expect to run into someone interesting on my first day back..."
Fang Li murmured.
"Hm?" The girl seemed to notice. Turning toward him, she tilted her head and asked, "What are you whispering about over there? Tell me too! Misaka Misaka attempts to hide her curiosity and asks calmly like an adult."
The girl's way of speaking was still as strange as before, but Fang Li had finally gotten used to it.
All in all, the more he heard her talk like that, the more amusing it became.
At the very least, Fang Li knew that the things she said were not