The Scent Left Behind by Winter
The girl with bobbed hair had said exactly what they were all thinking.
The girl with bobbed hair lifted her chin, looking smug, as if to say, "See?"
"Sister-in-law, I'm so glad you're my sister-in-law."
The girl with bobbed hair said it with heartfelt emotion.
"My brother is so lucky."
"How did you end up falling for my brother?"
"My brother..."
The woman's face grew even redder.
She quickly changed the subject. "Were you just talking about Xiao Xiao's pets?"
"What did they do?"
The girl with bobbed hair was easily distracted.
"Xiao Xiao's pets are so smart."
The girl with bobbed hair looked amazed.
"Really?"
The woman was slightly taken aback.
"What did they do that made you think so?"
Still, strangely enough, the woman wasn't surprised that Xiao Xiao's pets were smart.
Pets that beautiful, with such a lively look in their eyes...
They had to be smart.
"It's just..."
The girl with bobbed hair tilted her head.
It wasn't easy to talk about what had happened with the girls.
"...When we were chatting with Xiao Xiao, we noticed that they seemed very sensitive to what we said and how we acted."
"It was as if they could understand us."
"They could also pick up on changes in our tone and emotions, and react to them."
"They were just..."
"Really smart."
"Really?"
The woman looked at the Little White Fox in the young man's arms in surprise.
Then she remarked with some feeling, "Well, it is a fox, after all."
Foxes being smart was a "stereotype" many people had.
"Yeah."
The girl with bobbed hair smiled.
It was a fox, after all.
So it wasn't all that surprising...
For it to seem a little