"Facing Annie's gaze, White Elder did not back down. He simply met Annie's eyes with a half-smile."
For a long while...
Perhaps he felt the tension had reached its peak. Perhaps he thought there was no point in continuing the standoff.
So that beautiful woman—with calm eyes, fair skin, short, snow-white hair, and a tall, curvaceous figure that gave her a heroic air—spoke:
"I see..."
"You aren't from around here, are you?"
As she spoke, she ignored Annie's reaction and instead looked out the window with a half-smile, gazing at the distant farmlands and mountains. After a while, she continued with a sigh:
"My name is Bai Yue Kui. You can call me White Elder, just like the others do!"
"Although I'm getting old and my cellular degeneration has become irreversible, I'm still quite certain I don't remember anyone like you in Dragonbone Village."
"Tell me!"
"What are you, and what's your name? How did you get into our village without anyone discovering you before today?"
As she spoke, she stared fixedly at Annie, as if trying to find something amiss in Annie's eyes.
After all, she was very interested in a stranger who could slip silently into her village—and was even a little girl at that.
"..."
Annie said nothing. She simply continued staring back at the other woman with a half-smile.
Then, after another long silence, she suddenly said adorably:
"My name is Annie. I'm from the world outside!"
(゜▽^*)
As she spoke, she playfully winked at the other woman.
"The world outside?"
"The Lighthouse?"
Hearing Annie's words, Bai Yue Kui instinctively thought of the towering "Lighthouse" that had recently drifted over to this continent.
But she quickly rejected that guess herself and shook her head.
"No!"
"There shouldn't be anyone like you on that Lighthouse. You aren't