"Ah, Master Xiao."
Wang Tong hurried over to Xiao Xiao. "You still haven't answered my earlier question."
"The sound I heard in the woods before... what was it, exactly?"
"A monster."
Xiao Xiao's crisp answer left the girl stunned.
She even stopped in her tracks. "A m-monster?"
"Didn't I already tell you it was a magical creature?"
Su Xun was a little puzzled by the girl's shock.
"B-but..."
Wang Tong was speechless. "It was a monster?!"
"A monster like the ones that show up all the time in novels, cartoons, and TV dramas?!"
"Aren't magical creatures the sort of things that show up all the time in novels, cartoons, and TV dramas?"
Su Xun asked back, amused.
A hint of laughter glimmered in Xiao Xiao's eyes, too.
"Uh..."
The girl pursed her lips. "I guess they are."
Weren't monsters magical creatures, too?
Why was she so excited to hear that it was a monster?
But it was a monster...
The thought that monsters really existed in this world made her almost too excited to contain herself.
"A monster..."
"It really was a monster..."
The girl murmured to herself.
"Ah~"
The girl suddenly cried out.
"What's wrong?"
Su Xun was already somewhat used to her being so easily startled, but she still gave him a fright.
"Why can't I see monsters?"
The girl looked aggrieved.
She'd finally learned the astonishing truth that monsters really existed in the world.
But she couldn't see them.
What difference did it make to her whether monsters existed or not, then?
It was a truly sad story.
Su Xun had no way to help her.
He couldn't see monsters himself, either.
Although he had seen one once.
But he would have preferred for monsters never to have appeared in his life.
As long as his