It was just a little spider.
He'd had dealings with monsters, after all.
Xu Enguang belatedly realized that... in a way... wasn't he pretty amazing?
Of course.
Xu Enguang knew he was nowhere near as amazing as Brother Xiao.
Brother Xiao could recognize monsters who had completely changed their appearance... and he meant that literally... even after they'd changed their faces.
Before Brother Xiao told him, he hadn't even known Big Sister was a monster.
But...
Not compared to Brother Xiao.
Compared to everyone else...
Wasn't he pretty amazing?
He could see monsters...
Brother Xiao had said that not everyone could see monsters.
Only a small number of people could see them.
And he was one of those few.
He'd never thought...
That one day, he'd become one of those few.
He meant it as a compliment.
Otherwise, being rejected by his divorced parents and eventually taken in by his grandparents... that was probably rare too.
Anyway...
Being able to see monsters... was pretty amazing, right?
He had a monster friend.
Xu Enguang pressed his lips together.
But he still couldn't keep the corners of his mouth from lifting.
Hmm...
Maybe he had more than one?
Thinking of the mushroom-headed boy, Xu Enguang froze.
What exactly was going on with the mushroom-headed boy...
He didn't know.
He realized that he really was simple when it came to dealing with people.
He'd never asked. That was probably partly because he was a little timid...
He'd never been a child people liked.
After all, he was someone his parents had kicked back and forth between them like a ball.
That had really left him with a deep psychological scar.
He kept telling himself not to care.
He was fine.
But he couldn't control his timidity and passivity when it