Wasn't that exhausting?
"You get used to it after hearing it enough."
Xiao Xiao narrowed his eyes.
The glowing orb floated silently in the air.
As if it were thinking about something.
"...Humans are strange."
The orb eventually gave up trying to figure it out.
Even though it had already spent a lot of time around humans,
it still found them baffling.
Xiao Xiao smiled.
"Has a girl been coming to chat with you often lately?"
Xiao Xiao got to the point.
The orb finally moved.
It bobbed up and down, then from side to side.
"Mm."
"There is one."
"Is something wrong with her?"
The orb had picked up on something.
So this human had come because of that girl?
The orb grew wary.
Humans were fragile and soft, but also cunning and cruel.
It was precisely their complexity that made it unable to resist chatting with them.
It found them interesting.
Once, it had been very arrogant.
It thought humans posed no threat to it at all.
It chatted with humans
only because it could hear so many interesting things from them.
It listened to their troubles, shared their happiness and anger, and even cursed right along with them.
It was as if it had taken part in their lives.
It was a wonderful feeling.
One it could hardly tear itself away from.
But...
It had learned a hard lesson.
It had been driven to the brink by human greed.
It had almost been caught by humans.
At the last possible moment, it escaped.
Even now, it remembered the eager look on the human's face as they stared at it.
It repulsed it.
For a long time after that, it never showed itself to humans again.
It had paid dearly for its arrogance.