Holding a cup of hot tea, Huang Xiaoyun finally seemed a little reassured. "Mr. Luo... Mr. Luo, do you own this shop?"
"Someone transferred it to me."
Transferred?
What a strange way to put it.
But did this shop really have any business...? It felt like the kind of mysterious place that people rarely visited.
"Did something happen?"
"Huh?"
"You don't look too well."
"No... nothing." Huang Xiaoyun instinctively shook her head, but she realized that Mr. Luo's gaze seemed to have seen right through her. "I... I have been having some trouble sleeping lately. I keep having nightmares."
"Nightmares." Boss Luo thought for a moment before saying, "They usually stem from the depths of one's heart—some emotion that has not been released, or some unresolved matter. Miss Huang, have you experienced something frightening?"
Huang Xiaoyun merely shook her head in silence. After a while, she said, "Mr. Luo, are you a native of Kirin City...? Has everything related to... Supernatural Power really been completely forbidden here?"
"Why do you ask?" Boss Luo asked curiously. "I think Kirin City's special nature has already been verified in many ways."
"...I-I was just curious." Huang Xiaoyun forced herself to smile. "Because... I can't help worrying that something like that might happen to me someday. After all... I see a lot of reports about this every day."
Boss Luo smiled. "If this place were not special enough, so many people would not want to come here."
"That makes sense..." Huang Xiaoyun nodded.
—Could what I saw just now have been nothing more than an illusion... caused by caring too much?
"Oh... right." Boss Luo suddenly seemed to remember something. "Miss Huang, wait a moment. I just remembered something that might suit you."
Under Huang Xiaoyun's curious gaze, Boss Luo quickly went inside. A