"What did it do to scare her?"
Actually, what Chi Xiuke really wanted to ask was...
What had A Jiu done... to scare her?
After all, A Jiu was beautiful.
If it had made a face or something...
It probably wouldn't have been scary at all, right?
But aside from making faces...
What else could A Jiu do to scare someone?
Even she and her brother, standing so close, hadn't noticed what it had done...
So it couldn't have been a big movement.
How boring. How mean.
It turned its head back.
Mm.
"He was the first person A Si ever made a face at."
She edged closer to her brother.
Caught off guard, the shock was all the greater.
It could only have been a face.
But...
"That wasn't it!"
"It's completely overturned my impression of A Si."
Chi Xiuke smiled, her eyes narrowing.
A glimmer gradually appeared in them.
This was pretty nice, too.
Goosebumps raced across his whole body.
Chi Xiuchuan was curious about what had made Chi Xiuke react so strongly.
"You don't have to go out of your way to make me feel better..."
Just getting the corners of your mouth to stretch all the way to your ears would be hard enough, wouldn't it?
It was certainly difficult for ordinary people.
"A Si still thinks I'm pretty, right?"
Like a robot rebooting.
"Ordinary person—uh..."
The Great White Fox opened its eyes.
Yes.
Chi Xiuchuan smiled, too.
He was a little curious as well.
All right.
Maybe "crude" wasn't the right word?
Even though this wasn't the first time she'd seen it, the impact on Chi Xiuke was still strong.
What kind of face could a fox make?
She felt even happier.
But on a fox's face, it made for an utterly