"Really?"
The boy didn't believe her.
The girl herself had been talking about it with such enthusiasm.
"Hehe."
The girl with bobbed hair smiled, eyes narrowed.
"Am I not doing my best to come up with ideas for you, big brother?"
Once her initial shock, disbelief, and bewilderment had faded, she suddenly realized...
Even if her big brother really had seen a monster...
So what?
From what he had told her, it was a little monster with a white body and red markings, and it looked a lot like a little fox.
It was beautiful.
And unusual.
Just hearing about it made her want to see it.
A monster, wow.
A beautiful monster, wow.
Who wouldn't want to see one?
"Oh."
The boy nodded. "So, have you come up with anything?"
"...Not yet."
The girl with bobbed hair shook her head.
Just as she'd said earlier...
The information she'd gotten from her big brother was too limited...
And this was the first time she'd heard of something so astonishing happening to someone close to her...
Before, she'd only read novels about strange events around the world and things like that...
She'd read the stories, whether true or not, and that was it.
She'd never taken them seriously.
Because those stories had always seemed so far removed from her life.
But this time was different.
This time, the story...
had happened to her own big brother.
The person it had happened to was her actual older brother.
And he'd told her about the incredible experience face-to-face...
Her feelings...
were very complicated.
She had no experience dealing with anything like this.
The boy: ...
All right.
It was what he'd expected.
Something this absurd...
Who would know what to do?
That boy...
Maybe he would know.