"Boss, Boss! Boss, tell me, does this look good? I bought it for you!"
"Boss, try this! I heard this whole continent only sells this kind of pastry in this city. They say it's made entirely from fruit!"
"Boss, let's go watch fireworks! There's a town nearby that sets off fireworks once every twenty days. I heard the alchemists gathered there make them from alchemical byproducts. They're supposed to be really pretty, and I've never seen them before. Let's go watch fireworks tonight, okay?"
"Boss, Boss, could you stop pulling my ears? Pulling them won't make me grow taller..."
All along the way, the little girl's chirping voice had not stopped for even a moment. And she was chirping loudly enough that passersby kept turning to look. What they saw was a loli who looked no older than ten trailing closely behind a man, constantly hopping about and chattering in an attempt to make her presence known. Ignoring the strange way she addressed him, it basically looked like a little daughter brought out shopping by an adult, who had spotted something she liked and proceeded to pester him relentlessly—though if anyone's daughter were really like Lilina, all I could do was offer blessings to eight generations of their ancestors. Once this girl got hyper, she was truly hard to restrain.
"Tell me, what kind of stimulus did she get these past two days?" After knocking Lilina, who had once again tried to jump onto me, back with a hand chop, I looked at Older Sister with a head as big as a bucket. The girl beside me had been excessively excited the whole way, constantly pulling out all kinds of strange things to show me. Of course, Lilina often went nuts like this even normally, but her symptoms seemed more