"Mm."
Xiao Xiao smiled. "That'll do."
"Then let's go."
"We've already wasted quite a bit of time."
Xiao Xiao casually picked a direction.
He had asked the Drowning Ghost.
Red Eyes should have arrived here in the early hours of the morning. The Drowning Ghost had still been asleep and hadn't seen which direction Red Eyes came from.
When Red Eyes left, the Drowning Ghost's head had been shoved into a crack in a rock. It had later passed out completely, so naturally it couldn't know which direction Red Eyes went.
It was hard to track scents underwater to begin with.
Quite some time had passed, too. Xiao Xiao didn't know whether other demons could identify the direction Red Eyes had gone by its scent.
At least the only one present who had encountered Red Eyes and knew its scent—the Drowning Ghost—couldn't.
Xiao Xiao could only rely on luck.
Besides, he'd already sent the other demons to search in every direction.
The Drowning Ghost followed behind Xiao Xiao.
Although it had finally agreed to come along, it couldn't hide how nervous it was.
It kept glancing left and right, afraid Red Eyes would suddenly appear from somewhere.
Xiao Xiao: ...
Even watching it was making him nervous.
"Drowning Ghost."
"Drowning Ghost."
One demon abruptly looked over, wearing an expression that was... almost horrified.
"...Sorry, did I scare you?"
Xiao Xiao's eye twitched. He suddenly thought of the timid demon in his own courtyard.
Compared to the "feat" of that demon, which had panicked and run into a wall when they first met, this Drowning Ghost actually wasn't quite so timid... was it?
"But—"
Xiao Xiao's lips curled up slightly. "You're so nervous that you're making it easier for the other one to take advantage of you."
If it