It wasn't without reason.
Zhuge Yun nodded.
"If you found someone to play with you—"
"We wouldn't find anyone else."
The two children answered as if it were only natural.
So the question was meaningless.
Zhuge Yun:...
"Just hypothetically."
"All right."
"...If Little Peach asked Lailai to play, but Lailai couldn't because she had something to do—"
"Big brother wouldn't refuse to play with me."
"I wouldn't refuse to play with my little sister."
The two children spoke almost in unison.
Zhuge Yun:...
There was no getting anywhere with this conversation.
"Hypothetically. Just hypothetically."
Zhuge Yun was starting to lose it.
"Impossible."
The two children said firmly.
Zhuge Yun:...
Fine.
He went quiet.
He looked at Xiao Xiao.
He shouldn't have butted in.
He'd leave the rest of the conversation to Xiao Xiao.
Xiao Xiao smiled.
"Do you like fighting?"
"No."
The two children answered quickly.
"Fighting hurts."
The little girl touched her teeth.
"My teeth hurt too."
It was probably the person you bit who was hurting.
Zhuge Yun grumbled to himself.
The chubby kid had even started bleeding.
"It smells bad, too."
The little girl looked disgusted.
Smells?
Zhuge Yun quickly understood.
Oh.
She meant the smell of blood.
It didn't smell very nice.
Who besides a weirdo liked the smell of blood?
"If you don't like it, why do you fight so often?"
Xiao Xiao continued asking.
"They started it."
The little girl puffed out her cheeks.
"But you were the ones who started it last time."
Xiao Xiao reminded the two children.
The two children opened their mouths.
Neither said anything.
That chubby kid had charged over looking so aggressive, as if he were there to demand an explanation...
They'd