River God couldn't help looking at his benefactor, his eyes full of admiration.
As expected of his benefactor. He was standing so close to this Great Yao that looked vicious beyond belief, yet he didn't even bat an eye.
But then again, this vicious Great Yao had been summoned by his benefactor.
Although before the Great Yao appeared, River God hadn't sensed a thing.
The Great Yao had appeared here so abruptly, and yet so naturally.
As if it had been here from the very beginning.
Wait.
River God froze.
He remembered...
When his benefactor had arrived... hadn't he been sitting on this Great Yao?
This Great Yao really had been here from the beginning.
But where had it gone afterward?
River God racked his brain, but couldn't recall a thing.
He reached up and knocked on his head.
Just like the Great Yao's silent, soundless appearance a moment ago, it seemed to have disappeared just as silently before.
He hadn't noticed at all.
And also...
What was this inexplicable sense of familiarity?
Earlier, he hadn't had time to think about the feeling before his benefactor spoke and distracted him.
Now that he was seeing the Great Yao again, the same sense of familiarity stirred faintly within him.
He... felt like he'd seen this Great Yao before?
"Ah!"
River God cried out.
He remembered!
Wasn't this Great Yao... the monster that had captured him the first time he met his benefactor?
Although the Great Yao's actions had indirectly helped him out of a predicament back then,
he really had been terrified out of his wits at the time.
He'd nearly thought his life was over.
"Remember now?"
River God's sudden cry and dawning expression made Xiao Xiao raise an eyebrow knowingly.
He'd finally remembered.
Xiao Xiao had thought