But Zhujian hadn't recognized her.
Just as it hadn't recognized that the old woman before it was the little girl from all those years ago.
And...
The child who had once been able to see it could no longer see it.
So, whether she had recognized it...
It didn't matter.
Its bond with those children had ended the day it left.
This person before it...
Thanks to Lord Xiao Xiao, had been able to renew her bond with it.
Zhujian looked at the human before it.
She didn't look anything like the child from back then anymore.
She had changed so much.
She was practically a different person.
Zhujian muttered to itself again.
Humans could sometimes make it feel that things were rather miraculous.
The striking marks that time left on humans were one such thing.
Zhujian tilted its head.
Would Lord Xiao Xiao change like that too?
Would he one day look completely different from the way he did now...
Hmm...
Zhujian realized it couldn't imagine that.
In its mind, Lord Xiao Xiao was simply Lord Xiao Xiao.
Earlier, after it had saved this human, Lord Xiao Xiao had looked over at it. That had made it feel a little pleased.
Ah.
Lord Xiao Xiao had seen it.
Lord Xiao Xiao could still see it.
There was one thing about interacting with humans that Zhujian occasionally disliked.
It was that it would never know...
When it saw a human again, would that human still be able to see it?
It only happened occasionally...
Because it rarely interacted with the same human again and again.
Lord Xiao Xiao was an exception.
It was sufficiently bound to Lord Xiao Xiao.
They could meet time and again.
Lord Xiao Xiao was special enough, too...
Thinking back on