(||￢▽￢) The Little Monk's Midnight Visit
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Annie was fast asleep. She had no idea that her little bear—namely, that fake macaque, Tibbers—had snuck into Fourth Sister Zhu's bedroom in the middle of the night and was feasting away.
Of course, even if she had known, she wouldn't have cared!
Tibbers had eaten people more than once or twice. Letting him indulge his appetite now and then was fine, as long as the woman agreed and he used that arena model to eat her. As his master, Annie certainly wasn't going to meddle.
After all, the little girls at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the previous world, a certain personal secretary from the world before that, and Lu Linglong and the others from the world before that—all of them had been eaten by Tibbers countless times.
There had been too many others in other worlds to count. Annie was used to it by now. She wasn't like those Zhu sisters, jumping at shadows and making a fuss just because someone got eaten. Their sixth sister had even come knocking on her door earlier. What a bunch of country bumpkins!
Luckily, the sixth Zhu sister had only knocked for a little while before one of her sisters dragged her back to bed. So Annie had slept fairly well that night without anyone bothering her over and over.
However...
No one knew what hour it was. Perhaps it was the hour of the Ox, sometime between one and three in the morning. The night outside was deep, and moonlight spilled like water over the quiet mountains of Pansi Ridge. Annie was curled up on her little carved redwood bed, sleeping soundly, a faint smile on her lips, when an unexpected sound of footsteps broke the silence.
"Good