What?
The girl thought she'd misheard.
"You want to..."
"See it?"
The girl's voice changed with shock and disbelief.
It...
Did he mean... the monster?
The monster she was so afraid of that she could barely stand being near it...
This boy wanted to see it?
The boy's gaze fell below the girl's face.
You might be about to lose your life, too.
After taking several deep breaths, she slowly straightened up.
The boy finally asked the question.
When you were all alone, with no one to help you...
"...Why?"
But she thought that was the end of it.
Ah!
"I think I can."
Xiao Xiao smiled.
I've already done more than most people would.
Only once...
But...
Was this something to joke about?
This girl...
But whether he was telling the truth or not, he had helped her.
The boy rapped his head hard with his knuckles.
So that was why she hadn't thought of it from the beginning...
Huh?
No, that wasn't it.
She was grateful to him.
Ah...
You and I are just strangers.
It seemed...
Xiao Xiao's eyes curved slightly.
And it was making her feel more and more uneasy and afraid.
A faint sob crept into the boy's voice at the end of his sentence.
"Don't you want it to disappear from your life?"
"Either way, we'll be leaving..."
Xiao Xiao blinked at the boy. "It'd be best if we didn't go anywhere you couldn't follow."
"You... can you do that?"
"You can do whatever you like from here."
The boy explained that the monster was currently behind her.
"I have some confidence."
She seemed to have said it so firmly...
She'd always hoped someone could help her escape the monster's pursuit, but she'd never thought about solving