Woman:!?
The woman's expression stiffened for an instant.
Although it vanished in the blink of an eye...
Xiao Xiao caught it.
The corners of his lips curled up.
"I was clearly talking to you just now..."
"But why, from that child's perspective..."
"Was I talking to the air?"
Xiao Xiao raised his brows slightly.
"Can you tell me?"
Woman:...
"...Yes, why is that?"
"Perhaps you were blocking me, so he didn't see me?"
The woman offered a very reasonable guess.
The smile in Xiao Xiao's eyes deepened.
"Oh?"
"Is that so?"
"A very reasonable guess."
"Right?"
The woman smiled and nodded.
She thought she had managed to bluff her way through...
"Unfortunately, that doesn't fit what happened this time."
Xiao Xiao suddenly changed tack.
"That child..."
He reached out and drew a line.
"Just now, he walked past us along a horizontal line."
The only way he could have blocked the woman was from one specific angle.
It couldn't have been from every angle.
Unless the child had consciously moved his body according to his line of sight.
"He should have been able to see you."
"I see..."
The color faded somewhat from the woman's expression.
She tilted her head.
Hmm...
What other reason was there?
She couldn't seem to... think of one.
Besides...
She didn't want to think about it anymore.
What a hassle.
The woman looked at the human opposite her.
She did not make a sound.
Her pale pupils seemed to grow even clearer.
Sunlight fell into them.
Making it impossible to see the emotions within.
Xiao Xiao looked away.
He glanced at the Small Forest behind the woman.
Then he looked back at her.
"If you don't mind..."
"Shall we go into the Small Forest behind you and talk?"