"Alright, it didn't matter anymore."
Huai Shi shook his head with a sigh. Though he had no idea why she was frozen in place, they had already reached his office door. It was about time he explained.
"I think you probably also have—"
He was answered by a piercing scream and pleas for mercy.
"Help!!!!!"
The innocent girl curled up in the corner, screaming and sobbing. "Don't kill me!!!"
Huai Shi stared blankly for a long while, helpless. "Calm down, ma'am. There's no one else around here, so even if you scream louder—"
The girl became even more desperate.
It was over.
Everything was over.
She had actually been brought into a den of evil by him.
Next, she would be locked up and cruelly treated, this way and that, that way and this, until she forgot the outside world and became his pet to pass the time... Wait, she couldn't keep thinking about this.
Looking at that gentle, kindly face, she somehow began to feel that such an outcome might not be so bad.
Lina, Lina, how could you fall so low!
"I-I... I'll perish with you!!!"
Despairing of both Huai Shi and herself, the girl cried out as she lunged at him, wildly waving a dinner knife.
It made one's eyes ache just watching her.
That would only hurt herself, wouldn't it...
Then, amid the amused mockery of the mascots watching the show, one hand effortlessly subdued her. With a slight jolt, the sharp dinner knife she had hidden in her sleeve all this time slipped free and fell.
"Ma'am, you may have misunderstood something. We're a legitimate business." Huai Shi felt like he was going bald. "Perhaps you have some misunderstanding about us..."
"Liar! You still want to fool me!" Lina pointed indignantly at the Pink Bear