"You say it... uh, no, I'll say it." Jiu Ming stared at Tree Loli before him in astonishment... Well, this was the first time she had come here of her own accord. What a rare sight!
"I came to see that child."
Jiu Ming immediately understood her purpose. She wanted to see how that 'World Tree' was doing now?
Well, Jiu Ming had no intention of hiding anything. After all, that tree was genuinely doing quite well.
Without saying anything else, Jiu Ming directly led her to the World Tree's side. The branches and leaves of the World Tree, which had never shown much reaction before, began to sway gently. This had never happened in the past!
"Don't mind it. She's just shy."
Jiu Ming nodded with a strange look on his face. Shy? This... Well, Tree Loli surely had some ability to communicate with plants.
After sitting against the World Tree's trunk for a while, she finally stood up. "Actually, I can't stay here for too long."
Tree Loli explained that the way she came to the Mysterious Shop differed from everyone else's. Others came here in their true bodies and could mess around as much as they liked, but she sent over an incarnation that carried her consciousness. Here, the connection between that incarnation and her true body was extremely weak.
If she stayed too long, this incarnation would vanish.
"You should've said so earlier."
Jiu Ming nodded. Even if he knew about this problem, there was no good way to solve it—unless he made a humanoid body for Tree Loli... But the key was that her current form was merely one of her split-off incarnations. Her true body was also a tree, a tree so huge it could scare someone to death.
"Want to sit at my