"Now that I think about it, I don't even know whether what they said back then was true."
Hundred Illusions Butterfly said lazily.
Its tone was mild.
Xiao Xiao raised an eyebrow. "What happened?"
"They disappeared."
Hundred Illusions Butterfly's thoughts returned to that day.
After a sudden flash of lightning and rumble of thunder, torrential rain poured down.
It had taken shelter in a cave.
A huge leaf lay on the ground, covered with fruits of all sizes and shapes.
Their bright colors looked very enticing.
These were the fruits Twin Flowers liked to eat.
Hundred Illusions Butterfly had stumbled upon them by chance beside an underground lake.
They were beautifully colored, and their taste was sweet and delicious.
Twin Flowers liked the fruits very much.
From time to time, they would ask Hundred Illusions Butterfly to bring them some.
The sky was very dark.
The clouds hung low overhead.
It almost felt as though they might come crashing down at any moment.
Hundred Illusions Butterfly felt inexplicably oppressed.
It wandered around the cave, feeling rather unhappy.
But the uncomfortable feeling wouldn't go away.
At first, Hundred Illusions Butterfly didn't understand why it had suddenly become so "fussy."
It had experienced this kind of weather countless times over the course of its long life.
Besides, this wasn't even the worst weather it had ever encountered.
But after the wind and rain had stopped, it carried the fruits wrapped in leaves back to the place it knew better than anywhere else, and began to vaguely understand the reason.
"Plop~"
The fruits that should have been wrapped in leaves rolled one by one onto the damp ground after the rain.
They were smeared with mud.
Their bright colors were gone.
Twin Flowers had disappeared.
It was the forty-ninth