Mainly because of that...
"Do you live here?"
the boy asked curiously.
Otherwise...
why was it that every time he came over—
even though the times he came varied greatly—
he saw this girl.
Not once had he missed her.
If the girl didn't live here...
it would be hard to explain.
It couldn't really be that they were simply destined to meet, or that they shared some kind of telepathy...
always coming at the same time.
He had originally wanted to ask whether the girl didn't go to school.
But then he remembered that the girl before him wasn't an ordinary girl.
She was a monster.
And monsters...
did they need to go to school?
No.
Schools were for humans.
Not monsters.
Since she was a monster...
it wasn't strange for her to live in the park... right?
"Mm."
The gray-haired girl nodded casually.
Boy:...
He sensed a hint of perfunctoriness.
But then he thought of something else, and secretly rejoiced.
The monster girl really did live here—
"Monster girl" was the boy's new way of referring to the gray-haired girl.
In his eyes, she was a girl.
But she had said herself that she was a monster.
So she was a monster girl.
He wouldn't have to worry about being unable to find the monster girl anymore.
As long as he came here, he would be able to see her.
"Why did you come again?"
The monster girl was as "straightforward" as ever.
Boy:...
Yes.
Why had he come again?
It hadn't even been that many days since they had last met...
The boy felt somewhat awkward.
They weren't exactly friends, after all...
"...Is that not allowed?"
the boy muttered.
"Can't I come here?"
That wasn't actually what he wanted to