A Good Loud Voice
The mushroom-haired little girl hesitated over whether to add the words "back then."
"...I haven't seen it at all."
The mushroom-haired little girl clenched her fingers.
Her grip tightened unconsciously.
"You..."
"Why do you believe me?"
"They..."
"None of them believe me."
"I don't believe you either."
Huh!?
It felt as if a bolt of lightning had struck the mushroom-haired little girl right in the head.
W-what...
Then...
The mushroom-haired little girl was confused.
But just now...
"That's all in the past, isn't it?"
Li Shiying said.
Why should she get caught up in whether something that had already happened was true or not?
It meant nothing to her.
To put it bluntly, it had nothing to do with her.
She would just treat it as a story.
A rather strange and magical story.
Ah...
The mushroom-haired little girl blinked.
S-so that was how it was...
The mushroom-haired little girl was a little dazed.
She didn't know what to do.
She had never encountered a reaction like this before.
Li Shiying didn't press her relentlessly about what she had said.
She didn't avoid her, either.
She simply acted as if she'd heard an ordinary story.
There was surprise.
There was astonishment.
There was curiosity.
And that was all.
"I'm sorry."
Li Shiying studied the mushroom-haired little girl's expression and apologized again.
Aside from the part about the shadow, the mushroom-haired little girl's story hadn't been a happy one.
The mushroom-haired little girl had suffered a lot because of the shadow.
Her already quiet and introverted nature had made her even more taciturn.
The experience had brought the mushroom-haired little girl pain.
Yet after hearing her story, Li Shiying had acted excited.
She had been excited about the shadow.
She hadn't