"Is it... a dog?"
The woman guessed hesitantly.
"A large dog?"
"But are there dogs with red eyes?"
"Though the fact that it only has one eye means it's injured..."
"Maybe the red eye is a side effect?"
The woman seemed to be asking a question, but also thinking aloud.
Xiao Xiao smiled faintly.
The woman's guess was almost exactly the same as his.
Of course.
Besides that, he had another guess.
They would just have to wait and see which one turned out to be right.
"Grandma?"
The little girl's confused voice made the woman and Xiao Xiao look up.
Their discussion and guesses about the red-eyed one came to an end.
The old woman stood frozen in place.
She seemed somewhat at a loss.
"Mom?"
The woman hurried over to the old woman.
"What's wrong?"
"Are you feeling unwell?"
The woman looked her mother over anxiously.
The old woman shook her head.
She was fine.
She tightened her grip on the bag in her hand.
"I..."
She lowered her eyes.
A trace of awkwardness crossed her face.
"How am I supposed to look..."
The old woman's lips moved uncertainly.
She had set off with such determination just moments ago.
But the farther she went, the less confident she became.
She realized...
She had no idea where to start looking...
The red-eyed one...
The old woman's mind was a blank.
Should she just ask someone at random?
The old woman hesitated.
This word, "random"...
Sometimes it was the most troublesome word of all.
The woman was taken aback.
How to look...
To be honest...
She didn't know either.
The woman gave a wry smile.
Seeing how anxious the old woman had been just a moment ago, she had assumed her mother already understood