She...
The child was bewildered.
She really had seen it.
"What?"
Seeing that the child seemed to understand too, the old man was left as the only one still in the dark.
He went over to his wife and asked her quietly.
"It's what I told you about last time."
The old woman's tone was less than pleasant.
She hadn't expected...
So many days had passed.
Everything had gone according to her plan...
The child had truly forgotten everything that happened that day.
As long as...
That so-called giant leopard didn't appear in front of the child again.
She'd really thought the giant leopard was just a fantasy the child had conjured up while playing alone.
If the child stopped playing alone,
the fantasy wouldn't appear again.
She hadn't expected...
Just when she was nearly ready to forget what had happened that day, the child...
Had started seeing things again.
The old man froze.
What his wife had told him last time...
What she'd made a point of telling him about recently...
There was only one thing.
A dawning realization came over him.
It was about the child having hallucinations.
In other words...
Thinking of how the child had just acted...
The old man was shocked.
"She saw it again!?"
"Yes."
The old woman pressed her lips together.
This wasn't a good sign.
It shouldn't have happened...
Had she guessed wrong about what was causing the child's hallucinations?
That couldn't be...
Everything had been going smoothly until today...
If that wasn't the reason, what else could it be?
The old man looked at the child.
He was startled, incredulous, and worried.
When his wife had told him about it, he hadn't seen it for himself, and she'd already dealt with the problem...
So he hadn't