"You're better at... sensing people who are about to have bad luck?"
Xiao Xiao asked outright, voicing his guess.
The little monster tugged at the feather on its hat.
Xiao Xiao's gaze lingered for a second on the feather, which looked rather pitiful.
He was a little worried.
Would the little monster pull the feather right off?
The little monster looked at him as if to say, How did you know?
A faint smile appeared in Xiao Xiao's eyes.
The little monster had made it so obvious. How could he not know?
"..."
The little monster's mouth twitched.
It looked guilty, while pretending nothing was wrong.
"Actually..."
"It's just that, compared to sensing when someone's about to have bad luck..."
"I seem to be a little slower to notice when someone's about to have good luck."
The little monster demonstrated with its hand.
It really was only...
"A tiny bit."
The little monster stressed.
"Mm."
Xiao Xiao replied.
His eyes curved slightly.
The little monster tugged at its hat.
It didn't really know why its precognition was biased in that way.
It had naturally noticed the problem this human pointed out before.
But after worrying over it for a while, all it had accomplished was pulling out several little tufts from the feather on its hat. It hadn't thought of anything else.
So it had let the matter go.
There was no point making things difficult for itself.
But now that this human had noticed...
It felt terribly embarrassed.
Especially when it thought about how it hadn't noticed that the girl earlier was going to have bad luck.
It was clearly better at spotting humans who were about to have bad luck...
Putting those things together, it just wanted to disappear right in front of