Had it just said that out loud without realizing it?
Zhu Nü looked utterly bewildered.
"No."
Meeting Zhu Nü's astonished gaze, Xiao Xiao's eyes curved with a smile.
"You didn't say that earlier."
"But you practically showed it."
It had practically shown it?
Zhu Nü was both stunned and confused.
Huh?
Wait!?
Zhu Nü's eyes widened.
Could this human read minds?
It didn't think it had said anything since earlier.
How did this human seem to hear what it was thinking?
No.
Just the fact that this human could understand it was already astonishing.
After all...
Being able to see it and being able to understand what it said were on completely different levels.
But this human had surprised it so many times.
It hadn't even realized at first.
It had just taken it for granted that the other could understand it.
But...
That was absolutely not the case!
This human could understand what it said!
This was the first time it had ever talked so naturally with a human.
It felt...
novel.
And magical.
Zhu Nü couldn't help looking at the human before it strangely.
What an incredible human.
Then it remembered the question the human had asked earlier.
Speaking of that...
Zhu Nü felt a little uneasy.
After the human left, it had hesitated for a while.
It had raised and lowered its paw, then raised and lowered it again.
In the end, it had gritted its teeth and walked in.
It wasn't that it was timid.
It was just...
Even though that human had left the courtyard, all the monsters in it were still there.
It had no idea how they would react to what it did.
It had been wondering whether it should take a chance...
Take a chance that, without