"I was a little disappointed that after Teacher Chen left, there was no one to listen to me talk about the big leopard."
"I never thought..."
The child shook her head. "Teacher Chen came to find me."
Ah.
The short-haired girl and the girl with the ponytail nodded.
They knew about this.
They had been there too.
In fact, it was the girl with the ponytail who had called the child over for Big Sis.
"...My parents were very angry when they found out..."
Although her parents had not shown it in front of her, she knew.
"My parents told me many times..."
The child pursed her lips.
"Don't get close to Teacher Chen."
"Don't pay attention to Teacher Chen."
"Don't talk to Teacher Chen."
"And don't listen to Teacher Chen, either."
"...Actually, I've always been puzzled."
The child smiled faintly.
"I was puzzled by my parents saying that the big leopard I saw was an illusion..."
"They said Teacher Chen... had bad intentions toward me."
The child did not even really understand what the four words "bad intentions" meant.
"But it's okay. I listen to my parents."
"My parents must be right."
As it turned out, her parents really had been right.
"...I haven't seen the big leopard for many days now."
The child murmured.
"My parents said there's nothing wrong with me."
"I'm not sick."
"I'm different from Uncle."
"I won't become like Uncle."
"Nini."
The child looked at the girl with the ponytail. "Believe me."
"I won't become like Uncle."
Even though the child had never seen what the uncle in the girl with the ponytail's words actually looked like...
No matter what he looked like...
She would not become like that.
"I'm just the way I am now."
"Do you think I look