"Sorry."
Su Xun knew he'd lost his composure just now.
But when he looked at the little girl, his eyes were full of pity.
The child didn't know that if she asked someone for help—
the outcome wouldn't be the beautiful ending she imagined, where she avenged her sister.
It would only leave her in an even worse situation than she was in now.
Because that Niuniu, the Niuniu who had eaten her sister... was a monster.
Just now, when the little girl said she'd seen Niuniu, he'd followed her gaze, but hadn't seen anything.
An ordinary person would definitely have doubted the little girl, perhaps even wondered if something was wrong with her.
But he wouldn't.
He knew monsters existed.
He knew ordinary people couldn't see them.
Although he was an ordinary person too, special circumstances had once allowed him to see monsters. He'd even spent two years living alongside them.
He was willing to believe the little girl.
He believed that the Niuniu she spoke of was real, and that her sister really had been eaten by a monster.
But unlike him, the villagers who had believed the little girl again, only to find they couldn't see Niuniu, would feel they'd been fooled and deceived.
He didn't want to imagine what they'd think of the little girl in the grip of such negative emotions, or what cruel words would surround her.
He wouldn't let the little girl end up in that kind of situation.
"But, Little Guy, Niuniu is very strong."
"Even if you got your father and the others, they wouldn't be able to deal with Niuniu."
"Instead, they'd get hurt. Niuniu might even eat your father and the others."
"Huh?!"
The little girl immediately panicked. "Dad might get eaten too?"
"No!"
"I won't ask