The other person was remarkably calm.
Not the slightest bit flustered.
"Two little birds..."
The young woman looked a little sheepish.
Should she say that he was really quite childlike?
Apologize for disturbing his fairytale world?
The young woman's male companion was also taken aback.
So it really was just two little birds?
A hint of disappointment arose in his heart.
He had thought...
Sigh.
The young man froze.
What had he thought?
He didn't have any specific guess in mind.
He just felt...
Forget it.
The young man shook his head.
No point wondering.
As it turned out, he'd read too much into it.
The young man grinned at Xiao Xiao. "Sorry, classmate. We didn't mean to disturb you."
Xiao Xiao gave a slight shake of his head.
The couple left hand in hand.
Their conversation drifted faintly through the air,
"...That was so strange..."
"Running into such a weird person this late at night..."
"Looking at him, he doesn't seem like..."
"Maybe he thought no one was around, so he did something like that..."
"And then we walked right in on him."
"Sigh..."
"Is that what happened?"
Xiao Xiao smiled.
That had, in fact, been part of it.
Xiao Xiao walked onto campus.
He took a shortcut through the Small Forest.
Then he stopped.
He looked up.
Man Man turned its head this way and that.
Then it slowly settled on a branch.
Their farewell had been interrupted by a small incident earlier.
After the couple left, they hadn't picked up where they'd left off.
Although...
Their farewell had actually already been completed.
But the couple had appeared at such a timely moment that Man Man couldn't help feeling their farewell was still missing something.
So when the couple