Pick one of two.
The child stared at the two balloons in his uncle's hands, his baby-fat cheeks scrunched into a ball.
His genuinely troubled expression made the vendor, the old woman, and the passersby who saw him struggle to hold back their laughter.
"Roar, roar~"
Xingxing shook its head.
Humans were so indecisive.
Whether they were human cubs or larger humans,
they always became terribly conflicted whenever they had to make a choice.
It looked at the two balloons the child had finally chosen.
Hmm...
One was the Rabbit Doll balloon that the human from earlier had bought.
Hmm.
The color was different.
That human had bought a pink one.
Then he had given it to the girl beside him.
The one this child had taken a fancy to was yellow.
The expression on it was different too.
The other was a balloon shaped like a dog with a body.
It emphasized the body because the Rabbit Balloon had no body, only a head.
But because of its two long rabbit ears, the Rabbit Balloon was not at all smaller than the puppy balloon.
"Bunny... doggy..."
The child kept muttering.
His eyes shifted from the Rabbit Balloon to the puppy balloon,
then from the puppy balloon back to the Rabbit Balloon.
Back and forth, again and again.
"If you take any longer, there won't be any rock-sugar strawberries left."
The old woman was "threatening" her grandson.
She mainly did it because if her grandson kept agonizing like this, he would be delaying the vendor's business too much.
"Ah..."
The child immediately grew anxious.
"No..."
"I..."
The child's hand reached toward...
One moment it reached toward the Rabbit Balloon, and the next it reached toward the puppy balloon.
His little finger remained terribly hesitant.