"...Looking for someone?" The man curled his lips. After staring blankly for two seconds, he even rubbed his eyes to make sure he hadn't misread. Why did this feel like an old father looking for his runaway daughter?
He carefully examined the writing in the Little Notebook, then let out a breath. "Sorry, but even so, I can't let you pass."
As for the words in the Little Notebook, they had come from the big fox. It was incredibly difficult for humans to learn beast language... but it was not too hard for highly intelligent Exotic Beasts to understand human writing. Their intelligence was no lower than that of an adult human, so learning written language naturally would not be too difficult.
This big fox had been roaming far and wide for over a decade already, so of course it understood this. Learning human writing was beneficial to them as well. Highly intelligent Exotic Beasts generally learned at least some of it. For instance, when two people were discussing how to scheme you to death during a fight—if you did not understand human speech... you could only stare blankly as they talked, having no idea what they were muttering about, only to truly be schemed to death afterward. There had been plenty of such cases.
At the man's reply, the big fox's face showed traces of anger and helplessness.
Unless the man before it had been kicked in the head by a donkey several times, there was no way he would let it pass. As for forcing its way through... that would be far too disadvantageous for it. A gust of wind swept up the pen in the man's hand and began writing in the notebook held in his other hand. Seeing the new words in the Little Notebook, the