"Could it be..."
"That monster never meant to hurt Lailai and Little Peach?"
"How do you know?"
Zhuge Yun blurted out.
"Did I guess right?"
Zhao Luzheng grinned.
"Third Brother."
Zhang Bo gave Zhao Luzheng a thumbs-up.
"Impressive."
"You caught on quickly."
Zhuge Yun smiled.
"Because if that monster had really been hostile toward Lailai and Little Peach..."
"Would they have had a chance to ask anyone for help?"
They'd have been dead long ago.
"Exactly."
Zhuge Yun snapped his fingers.
"I didn't realize it at first..."
Mostly because I was a little taken aback by how those two children acted.
"I even asked Third Brother whether he'd taken care of that monster..."
Zhuge Yun made a throat-slitting gesture.
"Then Third Brother told me..."
Zhuge Yun shook his head. "That monster was just playing with the kids."
Zhuge Yun spread his hands.
"Fine."
"I was the one being malicious."
"It was just playing with the children, and I wanted to kill it."
Zhao Luzheng couldn't help laughing.
"Good thing that monster didn't hear you..."
Otherwise...
It wouldn't have been Second Brother trying to kill the monster.
It would've been the monster trying to kill Second Brother.
Zhuge Yun grinned. "It's fine. Third Brother is here."
"Besides, I didn't do it on purpose."
Zhuge Yun hurriedly added,
"I couldn't see, so it was easy to misunderstand."
"But once a misunderstanding is cleared up, that's all that matters."
"Right?"
Zhao Luzheng laughed.
"Second Brother, you don't need to explain yourself in such a hurry."
"It's not like the monster's here."
"Pfft!"
Zhang Bo burst out laughing. "Where was all that courage when you told Third Brother to deal with it?"
Zhuge Yun rolled his eyes. "I thought that thing had hurt Lailai and Little Peach."
"All right."
Zhuge Yun ended the topic.