After stepping out the door, Yukiko let out a sigh of relief.
"Looks like we can leave Ai at home," Yukiko said to Chen.
Chen said nothing. Instead, he pointed behind Yukiko. Yukiko looked at him in confusion, not understanding what he meant.
But when Yukiko turned around, she immediately understood what Wuyou meant. Ai was standing right behind her.
Yukiko was startled. Ai was actually standing there, staring right at her, making Yukiko feel incredibly awkward.
"Ai, why are you here?" Yukiko could not help asking.
Yukiko truly had not expected Ai to be there. Had Ai deliberately been waiting for them?
Thinking about it, that really did seem to be the case. Otherwise, why would she be here so early in the morning?
"I saw it coming." Ai's eyes seemed to see through everything. She had long guessed that Chen and Yukiko would try to slip away, so she had been waiting there since early morning.
"Ahem, Ai, what exactly did you see coming?" Yukiko asked awkwardly. If there had been a crack in the ground, she would have crawled into it without hesitation.
"I saw that you were going to leave me behind," Ai said irritably.
Earlier, Ai had already expected that Chen and the others would find a way to ditch her and sneak off on their own. Sure enough, she had guessed right.
Yukiko felt rather embarrassed upon hearing that. What she had been thinking had actually been anticipated by Ai as well.
Why was Ai so smart? She was clearly still so young, only in the first grade of elementary school.
Yukiko thought that way because she had no idea of Ai's true identity and simply regarded her as an elementary school student.
"Ai really is uncannily perceptive. By the way, when did you