"E-eaten it all?!"
The woman gaped.
Just a moment ago, it had been a whole cream cake without a single strawberry on it.
But in the blink of an eye, all that remained was an empty plate?!
The woman was both shocked and confused.
As far as she remembered... Little Red was about the size of an ordinary puppy. Was its mouth really big enough to swallow an entire cake?
"Yikes~"
The boy rubbed the spot on his cheek where he'd just pinched himself. A faint red mark was visible, showing just how hard he'd pinched.
His gaze was unfocused.
The unchanged empty plate before him told him he hadn't imagined it.
Even though he'd already grown somewhat numb from watching one strawberry after another disappear,
the shock of an entire cake vanishing was entirely different from the shock of a single strawberry disappearing.
This scene had once again shown him that there really was a creature on the table that he couldn't see—the Little Red his mother had told him about.
"...A monster?"
The boy murmured to himself.
"What?"
The woman had vaguely heard Han Rui say something, but hadn't caught it. She turned to look at her son.
"Mom."
The boy looked at his mother too. "Is Little Red... a monster?"
Now that he truly accepted Little Red's existence, and the vague fear in his heart had faded a little, he instinctively began to guess what Little Red was.
Wasn't a creature that only people with spiritual power could see exactly what people called a monster?
That was what all the novels said, wasn't it?
"A monster?"
The woman laughed in surprise. "Why would you think that? Little Red isn't—"
A monster?
Her voice cut off.
Then what was Little Red?
Her expression suddenly went