Just as the Inspector rubbed his hands together, ready to receive a gift, Spotty Dog gave him a puzzled look. Then its gaze slowly shifted, its attention sliding away from the Inspector and toward somewhere behind him.
The Inspector froze. It wasn't looking at me? It wasn't looking at me!
Had he misunderstood?
Filled with doubt, the Inspector turned around and followed Spotty Dog's gaze.
Far off on the horizon, two rays of light—one white and one black—had appeared at some unknown moment. Like comets, they sped toward their location at breathtaking speed.
The Inspector did not know what those black-and-white lights were, but he now understood that he really had misunderstood...
There was no queue for handing out gifts at all.
Thinking about it, Wang Wang, Angel, and Spotty Dog clearly shared an unusual relationship. It was perfectly normal for them to receive gifts. He had only met Spotty Dog today and had not even exchanged a proper word with it. Why would it give him anything?
The Inspector felt his face burn. He must have lost his mind just now, or how could such a delusion have taken root?
Fortunately, the Inspector's control over his expression had not failed him. Otherwise, if Angel or Wang Wang had noticed, he would truly have been humiliated. As for Spotty Dog seeing through him... their levels were different to begin with. Wasn't that normal? Before Spotty Dog, he was a junior. What was strange about a junior having a few petty thoughts?
With that thought, the Inspector gradually calmed his somewhat turbulent emotions and refocused on the black-and-white radiance.
By then, the two rays had drawn very close. With the Inspector's eyesight, he could already make out the outlines concealed within them.
"I've never seen them before, and their auras are