"Plum Blossom Woman."
Xiao Xiao smiled faintly.
"Bo Bo was too embarrassed to come over after what happened yesterday."
Plum Blossom Woman paused.
She looked up at the monster beside the pond.
The pond was right next to the White Plum Blossom Tree, actually.
Usually, Bo Bo would lie on the ground against the White Plum Blossom Tree...
Plum Blossom Woman furrowed her brow.
Weren't fools supposed to be thick-skinned?
And yet Bo Bo still remembered what happened yesterday.
Plum Blossom Woman met Bo Bo's furtive glance head-on.
Bo Bo: ?!
"Ribbit!"
Frog God's warning came too late.
With a splash, Bo Bo, who had been standing by the pond, toppled backward into it.
Water surged up in a huge spray.
Emperor Black Lamp and Golden Coca scattered in fright.
Chirú did too.
A startled expression appeared on the beautiful face.
Pearl-bearing Fish, usually the picture of calm, was the most composed of them all.
But even he opened all four eyes, a rare sight.
Bo Bo's dramatic fall had nearly made him think a massive storm had broken out.
"Thank you."
As the branches in front of him slowly withdrew, Xiao Xiao smiled at Plum Blossom Woman.
He was sitting not far from the pond.
Some of the water Bo Bo had splashed up had reached him, too.
Getting a little wet in summer was no big deal.
But he didn't like the feeling of wet clothes sticking to him.
Just as he was about to dodge the droplets, the light dimmed before him.
The Plum Tree's branches had grown silently but swiftly, blocking the water droplets for him.
The White Plum Blossoms, dotted with water, seemed all the more translucent in the sunlight.
Plum Blossom Woman smiled faintly.
It was only right.
Bo Bo had