"Maybe I did flee in panic back then?"
The young man gave a bitter smile. "Afterward, I deliberately avoided the area around that dance studio for a long time."
"I was afraid I would run into people from the dance studio. It would have been awkward."
"Little Fire didn't go there again either?"
Xiao Xiao was a little curious. Going by what the young man had said, Little Fire had been very interested in ballroom dancing.
"Ah, maybe it couldn't find the way?"
Xiao Xiao immediately recalled Little Fire's terrible sense of direction.
The young man pushed up his glasses again. "Not being able to find the way might have been one reason."
"But it wasn't a major problem."
"I could take it there."
The young man paused, a hint of helplessness in his tone. "Little Fire gets bored with things very easily."
"It easily becomes interested in something."
"And it just as easily gets distracted by something new."
"Then it forgets what it was interested in before."
"What a spirited monster."
The corners of Xiao Xiao's lips lifted slightly.
He was beginning to want to meet this monster called Little Fire.
At that, the young man seemed to want to smile, but his brows furrowed instead. "I don't know when I'll be able to find Little Fire..."
"How long did it usually take you to find Little Fire before?"
Xiao Xiao asked.
"It varied."
The young man shook his head.
"If I was lucky, I found it in a few days."
"If I was unlucky..."
The young man thought for a while. "I remember the longest time... I searched for Little Fire for three months."
"Three months?"
Xiao Xiao thought that was much shorter than the time the Frog God had spent searching.
It seemed