"Quick."
"Say goodbye to big brother."
The woman gently squeezed the child's shoulder, prompting him to say goodbye to the young man in front of them.
The child blinked his big, dark eyes, which were filled with the white snake.
He tilted his face up to look at Xiao Xiao.
"Big brother..."
"I really like snakes."
"Can you give me the snake?"
"Bao Bao!"
The woman called softly.
She hadn't expected...
She'd asked the child to say goodbye, but instead, he'd made the young man such a request.
The woman was caught completely off guard.
The short-haired girl, who had been quietly holding an umbrella over the woman, also looked at the child in surprise.
Did Bao Bao really like this white snake that much?
The white snake was certainly beautiful...
But it was still a snake.
Like the woman, she had an instinctive, physical aversion to snakes.
If you asked her...
She looked at the young man's arms.
There was a fluffy white bundle there.
Because the young man was crouching, and the little fellow seemed to be asleep...
All she could see was a fluffy white bundle.
But whether it was a kitten or a puppy, wouldn't something so furry be much cuter than a snake?
Besides...
As for how they felt to touch...
Wasn't fluffy, soft fur countless times better than slippery, chilly snake scales?
Uh...
Thinking of slippery, cold snake scales...
The short-haired girl felt as if she could smell a fishy odor right under her nose.
She shivered all over.
So she couldn't relate at all to how much the child clearly liked snakes.
But when she thought about the child's impressive feat of catching a loach, she wasn't all that surprised that he wasn't afraid of snakes and even