The woman paused, then gave a wry smile and nodded. "That's right."
"Did you hear that?"
The woman rubbed the child's head.
"Don't run off by yourself again."
"No matter why..."
"If anything's wrong, you can tell Mom and Dad."
"Mom and Dad will be there for Nannan."
Whether the child wanted to play a game or see a Queen of the Night...
Just don't let them turn around and find that she's vanished.
The woman still seemed a little unwilling to give up.
"Do you think your big brother and I haven't tried to get the answer out of her?"
"Where did she see a Queen of the Night?"
It took several times as long, and several times the effort, to create that crack.
So that was...
That was a rather unusual preference.
The little girl pursed her lips.
"...No matter how we try to 'coax or threaten' her..."
"As long as you tell Uncle where you saw the Queen of the Night."
Just like this time?
The little girl's uncle was somewhat curious.
"You and the child's father have never seen a Queen of the Night."
If not for the idiom "a Queen of the Night," many children probably wouldn't even know that the flower existed.
Speaking of that, the little girl's mother was also a little surprised.
Huh?
The little girl had once seen a Queen of the Night somewhere...
"I was a little startled at the time."
"Uncle really wants to know."
But the child already had a "record" with her.
The little girl's mother answered for her.
"She suddenly told us loudly that it was a Queen of the Night."
The woman thought she had this in the bag.
The woman blurted out,
"How could I not know?"
"Because she wants