She...
didn't understand.
The child's face was deathly pale.
Mom...
was she scolding Teacher Chen?
Teacher Chen...
had something wrong with her head?
What did that mean?
In the child's heart, Teacher Chen was an amazing adult.
She could teach her how to solve really difficult problems.
How could such an amazing Teacher Chen...
have something wrong with her head?
"If there's nothing wrong with her head, why would she believe you saw a giant leopard?!"
The woman furrowed her brows.
W-what did she mean?
The child's head began to throb.
Teacher Chen had something wrong with her head because... she believed the child had seen a giant leopard...
Then...
The child, who had seen the giant leopard...
"...Is there something wrong with my head?"
the child murmured.
She looked utterly bewildered.
"No!"
the woman shrieked.
"There's nothing wrong with you!"
"How could there be anything wrong with you!?"
"Chen Jing just led you astray for a moment!"
That's right.
How could there be anything wrong with her child?!
The woman instinctively rejected the idea.
No one was allowed to say there was something wrong with her child!
She'd have it out with anyone who did!
Even the child herself wasn't allowed to say there was something wrong with her!
"Ahem! Ahem!"
The man put on an act and coughed loudly several times.
His coughs dampened the effect of the woman's shriek.
The woman's outburst had already attracted the attention of passersby.
This wasn't good.
"We'll talk about it when we get home,"
the man said quietly.
"Let's go."
The man took one of each by the hand and steered the woman and child toward home.
The woman pressed her lips together.
She didn't say a word.
She'd noticed the stares, too.