"That..."
The old man paused, then asked the question he'd wanted to ask ever since meeting Master Xiao.
"The monster... is it here?"
Boss Bai had been listening intently to the conversation from the driver's seat.
When he heard the word "monster," he leaned back even farther.
"It is."
Xiao Xiao smiled.
"Oh, oh."
The old man nodded.
He knew it was a bit of a needless question.
After all, they were making this trip because Master Xiao had said the monster wanted to see his older brother.
Boss Bai's heart skipped a beat.
The monster is in his car?
He gripped the steering wheel tighter.
He laughed at his own excitement.
The monster had been inside his jade ball before.
But he hadn't known it at the time.
Thinking of that, he couldn't help regretting it.
He'd wasted his chance to interact with the monster.
As expected...
If it wasn't meant to be, it wasn't meant to be.
Boss Bai couldn't help sighing.
"What's wrong?"
The old man's sharp ears caught his grandson's sigh.
"Why are you sighing when everything's fine?"
"It's nothing."
The man was too embarrassed to admit to his little thoughts.
He wasn't a child anymore.
"Then why sigh?"
The old man muttered.
"Sighing isn't good."
"If nothing's wrong, don't—"
"Grandpa."
A thought suddenly struck Boss Bai.
He'd come up with a question.
"Hm?"
The old man immediately forgot what he'd been about to say.
"Since Great-Uncle could see monsters..."
Boss Bai pursed his lips. "Do you think anyone else in our family can see them?"
This kind of unusual ability surely wouldn't appear in only one person, would it?
Like in novels or TV dramas, maybe it could be passed down through the bloodline?
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