"Mm." A faint smile appeared on the tree girl's cool little face. "Even though there are now some traces on you that disgust me, you haven't changed."
Uh, that was really blunt, wasn't it? Traces that disgusted her?
"I don't dislike you." After saying that, the tree girl turned her gaze toward the others. "Welcome to this world as guests... Mm, that is the correct way to welcome people, right?"
"..." Mokou felt a little unnerved when the tree girl's deep eyes fell upon her, as though everything about her had been seen through. "You know her?"
"Mm."
"Huh? You're not going to stay?" Hearing Jiu Ming answer so quickly, Mokou looked at him in surprise.
"It seems she helped out here, so there apparently isn't any problem." Jiu Ming raised the flower-vine bracelet on his wrist. After entering this place, he had noticed that his spirits seemed to have been lifted, and that listless feeling was rapidly fading away.
"Just who is she...?"
"You can think of her as half the administrator of this planet." Jiu Ming thought for a moment before settling on that term. At present, the tree girl really was half the administrator of this planet.
As for the other half, he had no idea what that fellow's true form was.
"Half?" Mokou raised a brow. Never mind how ridiculously overpowered the title of planet administrator sounded—why only half?
"She has an opponent. It seems they're competing in that regard... Hmm, what I find strange is why she opened a flower shop here?" Jiu Ming looked around the tiny flower shop. None of the flowers displayed inside were rare or exotic varieties; they were all common flowers found on the market. What caught his attention most was a potted plant in one corner...
Hey! Could that