Inside the room, the lights flickered unsteadily.
"...A creature born from wishes?"
Ke Nai suddenly grew interested as she looked at the two sitting properly on the sofa before turning to Bai Zhi.
"More or less."
Bai Zhi answered with some irritation as he glanced at Big Anna and Big Qingyi.
"As time goes on, this kind of thing will become increasingly common, so... what are you doing?"
"Experimenting."
Ke Nai looked up at him with an innocent expression.
"Look, what do you think of this Pikachu?"
As she spoke, she held up her hand as if presenting a treasure.
—Resting in the center of her palm was a soaking-wet yellow-furred rat, barely clinging to life.
"Wait... you call that Pikachu?"
Bai Zhi's expression turned strange as he looked at the creature in her hand, which resembled Pikachu in no way except for its fur color.
"It's an experiment, an experiment. Since these creatures are born from people's fantasies and desires, their appearance largely depends on what people imagine. Minor deviations are perfectly normal—we can't possibly think of every detail."
She casually flicked her hand and tossed the yellow-furred rat away somewhere, looking rather disgruntled.
"You made two people so easily that I thought it would be simple. I didn't expect it to be this difficult... Hmm, do you have any special tricks?"
"There is a trick~"
Before Bai Zhi could speak, Big Anna proudly raised her hand from the side.
"She and I were born from the purest wishes, so everything that makes us who we are is pure. But that thing you casually created just now came more from the desires in your heart. Desires and wishes are completely different."
"Desires..."
Ke Nai lowered her head and looked thoughtfully at her right hand.
"That's right. Things born from