Little White Fox narrowed its eyes too.
That shameless stinking snake.
It was always the fastest to rush over and take credit.
Xiao Xiao chuckled.
"Yeah."
"I know."
"You all did very well."
"A Bai, A Jiu, little Taotie."
"Thanks for all your hard work."
The little monsters all felt a bit embarrassed.
Aw.
What hard work?
It only took the blink of an eye.
It wasn't anything difficult.
At the memory of the scene he'd seen earlier, shock and disbelief rose again on the scarred monster's face.
It had always thought the fox and the snake were...
Not a fox and a snake.
No.
There were animals that could see monsters, too.
That alone wasn't enough to prove that the fox and the snake weren't ordinary animals.
The scarred monster tried hard to sense them.
The uncertainty in its heart grew stronger.
It couldn't determine what they really were.
It was just...
Watching the fox and the snake interact so naturally with the two monsters...
No, no...
Judging from the way they stayed by that human's side... they must have been there for a while...
So getting along well still didn't prove anything.
Even if that pitch-black monster seemed to be kept in check by the fox and the snake...
That didn't prove anything... right?
Watching them deftly put the cake box back together and toss it into a bag nearby...
The scarred monster felt a little dizzy.
These guys...
They'd really been living among humans for a long time...
And had plenty of contact with them, too.
It almost seemed... as if they lived just like humans, and fit right in.
The scarred monster blinked.
Then it rubbed its eyes.
The scenes before it had left it deeply shaken.
It was the first