"Is it because of... Lu Duan?"
Lu Duan froze.
Huh?
Because of it?
How was that possible?
Lu Duan instinctively shook its head in denial.
It didn't even know...
The little monkey blinked.
It seemed unfamiliar with the name Xiao Xiao had mentioned.
Xiao Xiao smiled.
His gaze swept over Lu Duan.
"It's this one."
"Have you been following me all this time because of it?"
At first, he'd wanted to ask whether he'd been mistaken all along, and the little monkey had actually only been chasing after Lu Duan.
But Lu Duan had been following him.
So it had looked as if the little monkey were chasing him.
However, he soon dismissed that guess.
If that were the case, the little monkey shouldn't have acted hostile toward him.
If the little monkey had only been chasing Lu Duan, why throw fruit at him?
It had even tried to hit Little Deer just now.
Was that because Little Deer was closer to him?
The little monkey finally understood what the human meant.
It immediately grew flustered.
"Squeak, squeak~"
The little monkey paced around on the branch.
It looked utterly helpless and nervous, as if it wanted to deny it but didn't know how.
Amusement glimmered in Xiao Xiao's eyes.
This little monkey was really so interesting.
It was very clever.
Yet all its reactions were so exaggerated.
It almost made him feel as if the little monkey had stepped right out of a cartoon.
"Then..."
Xiao Xiao tilted his head.
The little monkey had followed him because of Lu Duan...
That wasn't hard to understand.
But the reason behind it was worth thinking about.
"Ah."
Xiao Xiao suddenly thought of a possibility.
"Did you think I'd bullied Lu Duan, so you threw fruit at me...