The short-haired man shook his head.
"I didn't find any sign of a snake passing through."
"So I came back to look for it..."
"All the signs pointed to..."
"There being no snake that had left the exhibit..."
"I looked for a long time..."
"Then, by chance..."
A look of wonder and disbelief appeared on the short-haired man's face.
"I saw the snake I thought had disappeared."
"It was gone in a flash."
"I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me."
"But I didn't want to believe I'd imagined it..."
"I hoped it had really been there."
The short-haired man shrugged. "You know what I mean, right?"
"Yeah."
The colleague with glasses nodded.
He understood.
"So I gradually adjusted my position..."
The short-haired man grinned.
"Hoping to see it again..."
"I tried for a long time..."
The short-haired man smiled. "Hard work pays off."
"I finally found it."
"That guy..."
"It really hadn't left at all."
"It had just been staying in the exhibit..."
"I'd spent all of yesterday looking for it like a madman..."
"Worried it might get out and hurt someone..."
The colleague with glasses looked at the red-eyed python again.
"Did it know this place was hard for people to spot..."
"Or was it just a coincidence?"
The short-haired man looked at the red-eyed python too.
"...I've been wondering about that myself..."
"If it knew..."
"That snake would be way too smart, wouldn't it?"
"If it didn't..."
"Nothing like this has ever happened before..."
"Did it just happen to take a liking to this spot?"
That would be quite a coincidence.
The colleague with glasses curled his fingers and gently tapped on the glass.
"Yeah."
"Unless this snake can tell us the answer..."
It would be hard for them to know