Did the gray-haired girl mean this?
"Mm."
The gray-haired girl nodded casually.
"You're special."
He was special...
The boy rubbed his temples hard.
A sentence flashed through his mind again.
"You're not human!"
The boy blurted it out.
"Mm."
The gray-haired girl stretched.
"I'm not human."
Such a shocking fact had been stated by the gray-haired girl in such a... completely nonchalant tone...
A wry smile slowly appeared on the boy's face.
"Be serious."
"This is..."
It was clearly something shocking—
No.
Something extremely shocking.
The gray-haired girl's attitude made him feel as if there were no need for him to be so conflicted, with his thoughts in turmoil and his mind buzzing...
Still, because of the gray-haired girl's attitude, the boy felt himself slowly calming down.
"You're..."
The boy thought of what the gray-haired girl had said next. "A mo... monster?"
"Mm."
A hint of impatience appeared on the gray-haired girl's face again.
"I don't want to answer the same questions anymore."
"I'm not human."
"I'm a monster."
"Don't you understand?"
"Humans really are so stupid."
The scorned human—the boy—parted his lips slightly.
Of course he understood those two sentences.
He wasn't stupid.
But the problem was, understanding was easy; accepting it was hard.
Never mind accepting it—he was still struggling just to believe it.
Although, based on everything that had happened, what the gray-haired girl said should all be true...
But...
Even though he kept telling himself so... over and over...
A few doubts still lingered in his heart.
A monster, huh.
He wasn't a little kid in kindergarten anymore.
He'd known for ages that monsters, ghosts, gods, Buddha, and demons didn't exist in this world.
That was what most people believed, as far as he knew.
Of course, he