"Where there's a will, there's a way."
The girl with a half-tied bun looked determined.
"Eh?!"
The girl with the half-tied bun looked as though she had suddenly thought of something.
"Hey!"
She grabbed both her friends by the hands.
"I've got it!"
"How about we replace the fox with a black cat?!"
"What, what?"
The girl with the ponytail was startled by the half-tied-bun girl's exaggerated reaction.
So was the short-haired girl.
She reached up and rubbed her ear.
"Bea—"
Hm?
The short-haired girl's hand stopped beside her ear.
She turned her head.
Just now...
She seemed to have heard a rather unusual form of address.
"Master Xiao."
A young man hurried toward a figure that had stopped.
Master Xiao?
The short-haired girl was curious.
Was that a nickname?
What a strange—
"Ah?!"
The short-haired girl suddenly cried out.
The figure that had stopped in the distance turned slightly.
A flash of white entered the short-haired girl's view.
That was...
A fox's tail!
"Ya Ya, you—"
The ponytailed girl's unfinished words caught in her throat when she saw her friend run off.
W-what was going on?
She looked at the girl with the half-tied bun.
She had screamed and then run off...
What had happened?
The girl with the half-tied bun shook her head in confusion.
Several traces of fright still lingered on her face.
The short-haired girl's yell just now had been anything but quiet or expected.
At such close range, her eardrums had taken a tremendous shock.
"Let's follow her and see."
The ponytailed girl and the half-tied-bun girl quickly chased after the girl who had already run some distance away.
"Wait!"
The short-haired girl eagerly reached out to grab the person in front of her by the arm.
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