Not a Fox
The boy in the baseball cap struggled to put his thoughts into words. "They didn't see a second fox..."
"They couldn't see the second fox—"
The boy in the baseball cap faltered.
No...
His brows furrowed.
Why did those two sentences sound like they meant the same thing?
He'd definitely just thought of something...
The boy in the baseball cap muttered to himself.
"They didn't see a second fox..."
"It's because they... couldn't see it..."
"They couldn't see it..."
What was he even saying...
The boy in the baseball cap felt his head ache even more.
Xiao Xiao smiled.
He understood what the boy in the baseball cap was trying to say.
Because that was what he'd wanted to tell him.
"That's right."
"They couldn't see the second fox you saw."
This time, Xiao Xiao made himself clearer.
The boy in the baseball cap stopped struggling to make sense of it.
His pupils trembled violently.
They...
couldn't see the... second fox he saw?
He knew every word in that sentence.
But put together...
Why couldn't he understand it?
"...Why?"
After a long silence, the boy in the baseball cap spoke.
"Why couldn't they see it?"
"The second fox—"
Wait!
The boy in the baseball cap finally understood.
He shouted.
"You..."
The boy in the baseball cap trembled all over with excitement.
"You can see it?!"
"You know I'm telling the truth?!"
"There really is a second fox..."
"Then why did you just..."
The boy in the baseball cap was a little out of breath.
His lips trembled badly.
If this boy knew he was telling the truth, why had he said earlier that he'd imagined it?
He hadn't imagined it!
He knew it...
The boy in the baseball cap felt the kind