Xi Anya tilted her head and thought hard again.
When she saw the feather...
"Thunk~"
Xi Anya raised her hand and hit herself hard on the head.
"No."
"Every time I see the feather, all my attention is on it."
Xi Anya gave a bitter smile. "I don't pay any attention to anything else."
So now, even though she'd thought about it until her head hurt, she still couldn't remember anything.
"I thought the noises in the middle of the night had stopped, and that the feather wouldn't appear anymore either."
The bitterness at the corners of Xi Anya's mouth deepened. "I didn't expect..."
"Just now, I saw it again."
"I can't take this anymore."
Xi Anya pressed a hand to her forehead, her face a mixture of weariness and irritation.
"It makes no sense..."
The girl's voice was low. "I can't figure out what this feather is supposed to mean."
"Why does it keep appearing in front of me?"
"At least tell me clearly what it wants me to do."
"That'd be better than me not even having a clue where to start..."
"Ah."
Xi Anya rubbed her forehead. "I'm talking nonsense."
As if it could tell her clearly...
Did she think the feather had come to life or something?
"Don't mind me."
"Just pretend you didn't hear that."
"Maybe even if it did tell you, you wouldn't understand."
Xi Anya abruptly turned her head.
Meng Jixi looked completely serious.
Xi Anya stared at Meng Jixi for a while, different emotions surfacing on her face one after another: confusion, bewilderment, bafflement...
"...Huh?"
"Master Xiao, did I make that same expression back then?"
Meng Jixi looked at Xiao Xiao.
It had taken him quite a while to accept Master Xiao's status as an expert.
At first,