"Oh—!"
(⊙o⊙*)
Hearing the whole story, Annie nodded, her face showing an expression of dawning understanding.
"So that's what happened?"
"Getting caught between them with nowhere to run, and then being threatened with being eaten... That really does sound awful."
(▽｀)
"But now that you mention it, that does sound like something she might do!"
ヾ(▽)ノ
As she spoke, Annie couldn't help glancing at the clone.
She had to admit, that Water Mirror Demon really did know Queen Annie well. The thing it had copied might not be very strong—it was nowhere near her level—but its personality was pretty similar. If she caught some interesting "enemy," she really wouldn't be in a hurry to get rid of them.
It wasn't as if she would actually feed someone to Tibbers, but she would definitely tease them properly and watch them cry and wet themselves. That was the sort of habit she had.
(...)
(;￢￢)
"Hey!"
At that moment, Elaina seemed to think of an interesting question. She glanced at Kanne and Lawine, then turned to Annie and asked with a hint of curiosity and a mischievous, troublemaking grin:
"Teacher Annie, speaking of which..."
"If we hadn't gotten here in time, would your clone really have let Tibbers—I mean, Tibbers's clone—eat them?"
"It's made of stone too. It probably wouldn't eat them, right?"
At the question, Kanne and Lawine immediately stopped crying. Their big eyes, still glistening with tears, turned to Annie in unison, like frightened fawns, as they anxiously awaited her denial.
"Hmm..."
Annie didn't seem to mind the three pairs of eyes fixed on her. She pretended to think it over seriously, then gave a teasing, mischievous grin and replied:
"Well... probably?"
(˙o˙)
"Little Bear is a Shadow Creature without a physical body, and it loves eating people! Now that