"Well, it's just a form of address."
Xiao Xiao rubbed his ear. "All right, that's enough about that. Next question."
"Huh?"
Li Yan froze. "But—"
He still wanted to ask more questions about monsters.
After all, "I'd never seen a monster before."
Li Yan murmured.
"Did you see one?"
Xiao Xiao gave him a faintly amused look.
Li Yan froze.
Uh, all right. He hadn't seen anything.
Li Yan wilted like an eggplant hit by frost.
"All right, let me rephrase."
"This is the first time I've learned that monsters actually exist."
Come to think of it, there didn't seem to be much difference between monsters and demons.
Yu Xianya had really seen a demon!
Ah, he was so jealous.
He hadn't seen anything, except for broken glass all over the ground.
He really wanted to see what a demon looked like, too.
"Sometimes, seeing isn't a good thing."
Xiao Xiao murmured to himself as he watched the returning birds pass across the sky.
For Yang Feng, the ability to "see" had brought him nothing but endless pain.
Those dim eyes were numb after struggling desperately in vain.
Numb to himself, numb to others.
The only comfort in that dark life had come from a demon with ulterior motives.
"Crack—"
The wire twisted into a tangled ball beneath Xiao Xiao's hands.
"Ah, Master Xiao, what did you just say?"
Li Yan, immersed in his jealousy and envy, was a beat late in reacting.
Then his eyes suddenly widened, his face full of alarm, and his voice rose several pitches without him realizing it. "Master Xiao, what happened to you?!"
"Hm?"
Xiao Xiao looked over, puzzled.
What had happened to him?
"T-the wire fence!"
Li Yan pointed with a trembling finger at the wire fence twisted into a