The two children bounced along hand in hand.
The confrontation on the bus earlier seemed like an illusion.
Of course.
The old woman was used to the children arguing one moment and making up the next...
That was just how children got along.
Besides...
In the face of something so extraordinary...
The butterflies the children had been thinking about on the bus had followed them when they got off...
They even flew a circle around the two children.
Faced with something so magical...
Those arguments no longer mattered.
After a while, once the children's emotions had settled down a little, the old woman asked, "Are you ready?"
"Let's go."
"Or do you not want to see the dinosaur exhibition anymore?"
The butterflies were a fascinating mystery.
But they had no way of explaining them.
They could just treat it as a wonderful gift for the children.
There was no need to look into it.
And they couldn't, even if they wanted to.
The dinosaur exhibition...
The two children froze.
Ah.
That was why they'd come out.
"Ah!"
The little boy shrieked.
The little girl, standing nearby, jumped in fright.
She immediately glared at him. "What are you doing?!"
"You scared me to death!"
"Why are you suddenly yelling so loudly?"
The old woman: ...
Her cheek twitched slightly.
Well.
The little boy's sudden scream had startled them.
But the little girl's voice afterward was even louder than his shriek.
Still...
The old woman was curious, too. Why had the little boy suddenly yelled?
"The souvenirs!"
The little boy jumped up and down in a panic.
The dinosaur exhibition had been his idea.
Every day, the exhibition gave souvenirs to visitors.
They were little models of different dinosaurs.
That was what the