"It couldn't come to see you."
"You could only come to see it."
"All these years..."
"It must have been very happy that you kept coming to see it."
"It was only right for it to give you some gifts."
The leader muttered.
"You kept coming to see it..."
Especially since you're so old, yet you still keep making these trips...
"You've worked hard too."
Grandma Xu froze for a moment.
Then she smiled. "It's no trouble."
"I'm happy as long as it's doing well."
"I only hope my health improves."
"So I can come see it more often."
"It will."
The leader's lips curled into a smile. "You'll definitely live to be a hundred."
Generally speaking, Grandma Xu would surely be the one to outlive the red-eyed python.
Grandma Xu's lips curved slightly.
"I'm not hoping to live to be a hundred."
"I'll live as long as I can."
She hoped she would be the one to leave after the red-eyed python.
Otherwise, the red-eyed python might not understand her departure and misunderstand her...
Thinking that she had forgotten it.
That would be so unfair to her.
The leader smiled.
"...Do you want to stay a little longer?"
The leader swallowed the words he had been about to say.
The bond between Grandma Xu and the red-eyed python was touching.
The red-eyed python was old.
It had already lived longer than ordinary snakes.
But even a long-lived creature had its limits.
Forget it.
He would just take Grandma Xu's word for it...
That what happened today had only been an accident.
The red-eyed python that had once saved Grandma Xu would never deliberately hurt a human.
"Mm."
Grandma Xu nodded instinctively.
A lot had happened today, and now that her emotions had gradually settled,