"Won't you introduce me to this young lady?"
On the drive back into the city from the airport, Little Rich Guy glanced in the rearview mirror at the already-snoozing Meng Haha in the back seat, then quietly asked Sister Pomegranate in the passenger seat:
"Is she a friend of yours? You can actually make friends with that personality?"
"You asking for a beating?"
Sister Pomegranate angrily shook a fist at him, making Little Rich Guy shrink his neck. Then she curiously picked up the exquisitely carved perfume bottle sitting on the dashboard. It was made to a scale of 60:1.
The thing had been carved in the shape of a manticore, modeled after Stinky Treasure, and looked uncannily lifelike.
The flirtatious Little Rich Guy had even included himself in the carving, standing imposingly beside the manticore and raising a beast-taming staff. The whole thing practically screamed "summoner's elegance."
In answer to Little Rich Guy's question, Sister Pomegranate quietly said:
"Meng Haha and I have known each other longer than you and I have. I'd just joined the training program when I met her. Back then, she was still a graduate student, and she came looking for someone to help her with an experiment. Who would pay attention to some little grad student with no connections?
Then, somehow, that busybody introduced her to me, and she came asking for help. I wasn't famous back then either, and we got along, so I gave her a hand.
We got to know each other better from there. Don't let the way she dresses fool you. She might look like those big-breasted, empty-headed girls you see on the street, but Meng Haha's got a sharp mind. She's a real genius! I heard the paper she wrote based on experiments she did on me even