"To avoid damaging this cemetery and its gravestones."
Xiao Xiao looked at the two of them. "I lured it into the woods."
"Then, naturally, we dealt with it."
"As for how I lured it here..."
Xiao Xiao's voice paused.
The woman and the man with glasses instinctively pricked up their ears, nervousness and excitement showing in their expressions.
They knew the important part had arrived.
"Sorry, that's my secret."
The woman and the man with glasses: ...
"A secret?!"
The woman's voice went shrill.
Xiao Xiao nodded.
"Mr. Xiao Xiao!"
The woman was close to losing her temper. "Don't you know how unfair you're being?"
"You barely said anything in the first place. Just when you finally got to something substantial, you say it's a secret?!"
The man with glasses was silent. He felt exactly the same way as the woman.
They had finally thought they might learn something...
Were they being brushed off?
"Would you ask a magician how his magic worked?"
Xiao Xiao suddenly said something completely unrelated.
The woman did not understand. "Mr. Xiao Xiao—"
"Would you?"
Xiao Xiao asked again.
"How could I?"
The woman stared at Xiao Xiao for a while, then irritably tucked the loose hair behind her ear. Her tone carried some displeasure. "Of course I'd like to ask."
"But the magician makes a living from it."
"Even if I asked, he wouldn't tell me."
"That's an industry secret."
"This is an industry secret too."
Xiao Xiao's words left the woman and the man with glasses stunned. "...Huh?"
"That's how it is."
Xiao Xiao smiled. "We should head back."
"Wait, Mr. Xiao Xiao."
The man with glasses stopped Xiao Xiao just as he was about to leave. "I have one last question."
Since Mr. Xiao Xiao had brought up industry secrets, they