Uh...
Xie Chuchu rubbed her head.
Wait.
She sorted through what the child had said.
"You mean..."
"Mister Leopard ate the candy you gave him, then gave the wrapper back to you?"
Wasn't it more likely that he was just too lazy to throw the trash away?
Xie Chuchu's mouth twitched.
Who did something like that?
"Mm."
Xue Jiamin hadn't noticed Xie Chuchu's speechlessness.
He nodded happily.
"Mister Leopard gave it to me as a return gift."
"A return gift?"
Xie Chuchu's mouth twitched again.
He really had the nerve to call it that.
"Ahem~"
Xie Chuchu cleared her throat twice.
"Xue Jiamin."
"Your friend..."
Xie Chuchu thought for a moment. "Is he very old?"
After all, he was a mister.
He had to be much older than a child like Xue Jiamin.
"Huh?"
Xue Jiamin looked a little confused.
"Very old?"
He carefully recalled the figure he'd seen earlier.
He furrowed his brow and thought for a long while...
"I don't know."
Xue Jiamin gave up.
He couldn't tell how old Mister Leopard was.
"Huh?"
Xie Chuchu was surprised.
"You don't even have a rough idea?"
"Like, is he in his twenties? Or his thirties?"
"Maybe a teenager?"
"About your age?"
Xue Jiamin kept shaking his head.
Xie Chuchu was even more surprised.
He really couldn't tell?
Was the other person just really good at taking care of himself?
"You don't know why you call him Mister?"
Xie Chuchu found it strange.
It didn't seem like a name Xue Jiamin would have come up with on his own.
Usually, people called someone older brother, uncle, or something like that, didn't they?
Calling him Mister...
That was certainly a novel way to address someone.
She felt the same way she had the first time