"...Did you see the black shadow?"
Child's Mom pressed her lips together.
"Yes."
The mushroom-headed little girl nodded instinctively.
Then she grew uneasy again.
Yes.
She had seen the black shadow.
But she had forgotten her promise to her parents...
She had forgotten to scream.
"...We didn't see it."
Child's Mom's expression was complicated in a way that was difficult to describe.
How many times had it been now...
The first time they hadn't seen it...
Maybe they just hadn't noticed.
The second time, perhaps they had been careless or negligent...
The third time they hadn't seen it...
What was the reason?
Was it the wrong position? The wrong angle?
Had their attention been drawn away by something else?
The fourth time they hadn't seen it...
What other excuse could there be?
Especially when she and the child's father had been completely focused and ready for anything, all for the sake of catching the black shadow.
Yet they still hadn't even seen a trace of it.
She couldn't help but wonder...
The black shadow...
Did it really exist?
It wasn't just her who hadn't seen it.
Both she and the child's father had failed to see it.
And the one who had seen it...
From beginning to end... had only been the child.
The man and woman found it unbelievable, and the mushroom-headed little girl found it just as unbelievable.
"...Why?"
The mushroom-headed little girl was truly puzzled and bewildered. "Why didn't Mommy and Daddy see the black shadow?"
The black shadow was right there.
Even in complete darkness, it was extremely conspicuous.
The mushroom-headed little girl couldn't explain why...
She simply felt that the black shadow drew the eye irresistibly.
Then...
Why hadn't Mommy and Daddy seen it?
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