"Hey, you cheated! Otherwise, there's no way you could've won."
"No, you were obviously too slow. Xiao Mu didn't cheat!"
"No, you cheated. Give me back my candy. I'm not playing with you anymore!"
"Who wants to play with you?! Spit out the cake! Xiao Mu shouldn't have let you eat it."
"Haha, I already ate it. Let me tell you, once you get something tasty, you have to eat it right away."
Watching the two "girls" in front of the TV about to start fighting, Lu PingAn felt increasingly conflicted.
Hadn't he come here for a deathmatch? Why did he feel like an elementary school teacher who had brought some children on a field trip?
"You two... forget it."
After thinking it over, Lu PingAn chose to pretend nothing had happened.
After all, if Qian XiaoMu had not come along, the girl who called herself Little Chick—whose real name was actually Eve K. Kerdales—would have been clinging to him instead.
But now, the "Little Girl" had met a little girl. Rarely encountering a peer in every sense of the word, and with Lu PingAn having brought along a game console—his own, of course—she naturally had a great time playing here.
"Qian XiaoMu, where's your grandpa?"
"...Grandpa?"
The Little Girl froze, thought for a moment, then shook her head in a daze.
"Didn't he say what he was going to do or when he'd come pick you up?"
"I think he did... Xiao Mu wasn't paying attention, so I forgot."
Well, reality was too harsh, leaving Lu PingAn speechless.
Expecting a real Little Girl to be thorough in every respect and remember everything adults said was asking too much.
"Hehe, little girl, you can't even remember what grandpa said, and you still want to compete with your big sister." Eve