"Wenwen."
The boy with the blunt bangs was excited and happy, too.
"You're amazing."
"You got the white fox to accept you so easily."
He'd thought they would have to work at getting the white fox to come with them.
He hadn't expected things to go so smoothly.
Was this really a case of things turning around after reaching their worst, and extremes giving way to their opposites?
They'd had such bad luck earlier...
They'd barely rested, searching most of the zoo and suffering both physically and mentally.
At least things hadn't gotten any harder for them in the end.
More and more people were gathering nearby.
As a result...
"Thank goodness..."
The process was important.
"Take care, take care..."
"Uh-oh."
At most, they wouldn't be able to find the white fox again once their seniors came back.
"It's time to go home."
At last, they could put their hearts, which had been hanging in the balance, at ease.
"Wow."
"Thank you so, so much."
"You just happened to find it."
It didn't come out again.
In any case, they'd found the white fox.
If the worst had really happened...
"It's not like we ran into it..."
"...We'd have been desperate..."
The clouds hid its figure.
After thanking Xiao Xiao again and again, the girl with the bun turned around and headed back to the fox enclosure, carrying the white fox with the girl with blunt bangs beside her.
The girl with the bun and the girl with blunt bangs were both stunned.
Yet it somehow felt completely reasonable.
"If it weren't for you, we'd have been done for..."
The process didn't matter.
The corners of Xiao Xiao's mouth lifted slightly.
He really had just happened to find the little one