Chapter 5998: A Turning Point
The child blurted out her answer.
She really liked giant pandas.
They were so adorably clumsy.
So cute.
The man wasn't very surprised by the child's answer.
But his doubts only grew.
This was the child he knew.
The child who liked pandas more than leopards.
Then...
Why...
Was her hallucination a leopard?
"You don't hate leopards..."
The man looked at the child in confusion. "And leopards aren't your favorite..."
"Hallucinations are usually illusions brought on by someone's intense desire..."
"You don't have that kind of intense desire to see a leopard..."
"Why..."
The child shook her head, dazed.
She didn't know either.
Could it be...
A sudden thought flashed through the child's mind.
"The big leopard wasn't my hallucination—"
"That's impossible!"
The man and woman said in unison.
The child stared at them, mouth agape.
No? It wasn't?
"Do you trust your own eyes, or the eyes of all these other people?"
The woman shook her head.
"The fact is, apart from you..."
"No one saw the big leopard."
"Do you understand, Yaya?"
"You're the only one who saw the big leopard!"
The woman enunciated every word.
Had the child still not understood this?
The child opened her mouth, but no sound came out.
She was the only one who'd seen it...
"...Why did I see a big leopard?"
The child tilted her head.
"I wanted to see a little fairy more."
A pretty little fairy with transparent wings.
The child had dreamed of meeting a fairy.
And becoming friends with one.
The man and woman stared at her in surprise.
Honestly, if the child had seen a fairy, that would have made more sense to them.
But a leopard...
"Yaya."
The man looked thoughtful. "Before