(￣︶￣) Raised Every Step of the Way
To this day, Maiduo and Xiandou still had no idea what Tibbers really was. All they knew was that he seemed to be some kind of technological creation, and that the plush teddy bear contained some sort of data. If they wanted to challenge the giant bear BOSS in the arena, they had to put Tibbers near the arena model.
Their understanding might have been a little off, but since Annie had never bothered to explain, that was what everyone believed.
See?
"Annie—"
"We're done with our combat training. Where's your teddy bear, Tibbers?"
"Can we borrow him a little longer?"
"The arena data still won't connect, and the giant bear BOSS isn't spawning anymore!"
Not long after Annie and Bai Yuekui finished talking, a round of complaints and hurried footsteps sounded outside. Xia Dou, that excitable girl, quickly shoved the door open and stumbled inside.
"?!"
But when Xia Dou rushed in, she found that apart from Boss Bai, who was sitting there leisurely eating some unknown dried fruit from a plate Annie had left on the table by the window, the troublesome little girl she was looking for was nowhere to be seen.
"Huh?"
"Boss Bai, are you the only one here?"
She glanced around, then asked with a puzzled expression,
"Where's Annie?"
"When did she go out? We didn't see her in the courtyard."
They'd been fiddling with the arena model in the courtyard and sparring in pairs the whole time. Annie hadn't gone out once, so Xia Dou had assumed she was still lazing in bed.
"You're too late..."
"She just left!"
"I sent her to do me a small favor—to keep an eye on that convoy of wilderness hunters that came down from the Lighthouse!"
"You should've come