The pitch-black monster looked up at it.
Its nonchalant gaze was like ice water.
A chill to the bone.
It abruptly looked away.
The half-emerged body retreated back inside.
The main hall's doors closed again.
It was trapped inside the hall once more.
A trace of regret rose in its heart.
It had a feeling...
That had been its last chance to escape.
But it had missed it.
It had been a little frightened by that pitch-black monster...
It didn't want to admit it.
But for just a moment, it really had been scared.
It was definitely because it had been so unexpected.
That was what it told itself.
Who could have known there was a monster perched on that human's head?
Hmph.
A monster, yet so close to a human...
Had it been tamed by one?
How embarrassing.
But now...
Noticing the faint wariness it felt toward that human, it thought, wasn't it just as embarrassing?
Still, no matter what it thought...
It wasn't about to let its blood run hot and do something rash.
Nothing mattered more than its own life.
If it lost its life,
Then what did it matter if it was embarrassing or not?
It had always been good at thinking things through.
Otherwise...
Why would it have chosen to avoid a possible threat as soon as it heard about it?
Put nicely, it was avoiding the threat.
Put less nicely...
It was hiding.
So now...
Thinking of how this human had said he wanted to talk with it...
It wasn't entirely convinced—
Of course.
It didn't trust this human at all.
But the situation favored the monster...
It could only choose to play along with this human.
"Snort~"
The gray Zhu Nü made a sound.
What did