"No."
The woman shook her head at the little girl.
"You didn't lose Bai Bai."
"Bai Bai just went home."
"Just like the doll."
"The doll went back to its mommy and daddy."
"Bai Bai went back to Bai Bai's mommy and daddy, too."
"...Really?"
After a brief daze, the little girl murmured.
Big Boy shrank back in his father's arms.
"You'll believe it naturally."
Bai Bai... went home...
The man was slightly stunned.
He also felt a little indignant.
And during that time, could something have happened to the child...
Although what the child said was quite astonishing.
The officer had come to say goodbye.
Big Boy couldn't quite say.
Sigh...
In the end, they still hadn't heard anything.
"I really did hear it."
"Maybe Bai Bai is afraid of strangers."
"The doll was so happy to go back to its mommy and daddy."
"That's wonderful."
"How is that possible?!"
Otherwise, who knew how much longer it would have taken them to find the child who had fallen below the cliff?
Big Boy nodded vigorously.
"?!"
And the child in his arms told the man something quite plainly...
"Do you know why I came here?"
The man had actually found the child.
He hadn't expected...
"He said he heard a voice..."
"I told him my child was over by the cliff ahead..."
He looked at the officer, who had come over at some point.
The officer shook his head.
How could she have had an auditory hallucination?!
The man was astonished.
Only then had she had an auditory hallucination.
When the man said he heard a voice, he had listened carefully, too...
"You really heard..."
Thinking back on it now, the woman felt a strange sensation welling up inside her.
"It sounded