Hurry Up and Put Your Clothes On!

But there really wasn't much to see.

After all, she was only six years old.

Children on the Douluo Continent did tend to mature early, but not so early that they were all that developed.

They usually started turning into little monsters around the age of ten.

At six, she didn't look all that different from a child on Earth.

So a flicker of disappointment crossed Zhang Tianyu's eyes.

Sigh.

She was no different from a little boy.

Well, no different from Tang San.

But Xiao Wu didn't see it that way. The moment she realized he'd seen her, her face turned bright red with embarrassment!

"Y-you... You, you, you, close your eyes! You're not allowed to look! Don't look!" Xiao Wu covered herself and turned around, her back to Zhang Tianyu.

"Okay, okay, I won't look." Zhang Tianyu immediately turned around like a gentleman.

The thing was, there wasn't much to see anyway. Zhang Tianyu shrugged. Their ages were what they were. Even Zhu Zhuqing at this age probably wasn't much different from a little boy.

Though Zhang Tianyu had turned away, Xiao Wu's heart was still pounding!

She thought, Darn it! He saw me! Darn it, darn it!

What was she going to do?

What if she couldn't get married in the future?

Even though she was a hundred-thousand-year-old Soul Beast, that didn't mean she had lived for a hundred thousand years.

And after transforming into a human, for the sake of self-preservation, her Soul Beast traits and habits would disappear completely. In their place, her behavior and mindset would draw entirely close to those of humans, becoming just like theirs.

That was why, after Zhang Tianyu saw her, she reacted just like any ordinary human girl would.

Those who had reacted abnormally had all been killed off, so their genes hadn't been passed down.

Seeing her reaction, Zhang Tianyu grumbled silently to himself:

Her reaction reminds me of those female demons I used to see on Earth. They used to be animals and never wore clothes, but once they turned human, suddenly they couldn't go without them. Ridiculous.

The system said, "It's like wearing a bikini on the beach being perfectly normal, but wearing one at school gets you called into the principal's office for a lecture."

Zhang Tianyu perked up. "Come on, come on, tell me all about that lecture!"

Just then, Xiao Wu cut off their lewd exchange. "Y-you... Could you check what's on my back now...?"

Zhang Tianyu cleared his throat. "Sure. I'm turning around, then. Get ready."

"Mm, go ahead." Xiao Wu's voice was full of a young girl's bashful sweetness.

Zhang Tianyu turned around and carefully examined her smooth, fair back. "I'm sure there's nothing unusual there. Could it have been your imagination? Do you still feel something moving?"

Xiao Wu turned to look closely at her clothes. After confirming there was nothing on them, she said, "Was it really my imagination? That doesn't seem likely! The feeling was so real. How could it have been?"

Zhang Tianyu spread his hands. "Then I don't know. Now I kind of wish I could feel what you felt, so I'd know..." He sucked in a sharp breath.

As he spoke, his expression suddenly stiffened.

Xiao Wu was startled. "What's wrong? Did you...?"

Zhang Tianyu frowned. "Yeah, I think I just felt something move on my back too. But I'm standing up!"

"So what? I was sitting down later, but I still felt something on my back," Xiao Wu said.

Zhang Tianyu rolled his shoulders and reached back to feel around. "No! Something's not right! It moved again!"

"Turn around so I can put my clothes on, and then I'll check your back too," Xiao Wu said.

Zhang Tianyu immediately turned around. Xiao Wu quickly picked up her clothes and checked them over several times before putting them on. Then she carefully examined Zhang Tianyu's back.

She couldn't see anything there either.

Xiao Wu was just about to speak when Zhang Tianyu blurted, "It moved again! It moved again! Right here!"

He pointed to a spot on his back, but Xiao Wu saw nothing there—not even anything moving beneath his clothes.

"This is so strange. What's going on?" Xiao Wu was completely baffled.

It was utterly bizarre. Could there be an invisible Soul Beast nearby?

But this was a village. How could there be a Soul Beast near the village? At most, there might be some wild animals.

If there were a Soul Beast around, the villagers would have been in danger long ago.

"I feel it again. Xiao Wu, check for me," Zhang Tianyu said, pointing once more.

But Xiao Wu suddenly curled her lips into a sly smile. She grabbed the fabric on both sides of Zhang Tianyu's shoulders, reached her other hand to his chest, and, before he could react, quickly undid his buttons and yanked hard.

Whoosh!

Zhang Tianyu's shirt came right off!

"Huh?" Zhang Tianyu froze.

What was this girl trying to do?

He turned around and stared at Xiao Wu, completely dumbfounded. "Y-you... What are you doing?"

Xiao Wu gave Zhang Tianyu a mischievous look. "You got to look at me just now, so now I get to look at you. That makes us even!"

Uh...

Zhang Tianyu was speechless.

Fine. It was only his upper body, and at their age, they were about the same anyway.

Actually...

Because he worked out regularly, especially his deltoids and pectorals, he looked even bigger than her.

She could look all she wanted. He didn't care.

Sure enough,

when Xiao Wu looked at Zhang Tianyu's upper body, he barely reacted, but her face turned red again.

See?

Zhang Tianyu shrugged.

When I look at you, you blush.

When you look at me, you still blush.

You're the one getting the better end of this deal—what kind of reverse advantage is that?

"Hmph, hurry up and put your clothes on. I don't even want to look at you anymore." Xiao Wu turned away, her face red.

But her eyes still couldn't help sneaking glances at him.

"Don't be like that. You haven't checked whether there's anything on my back yet." Zhang Tianyu turned around, presenting his back to her. "I'm wondering if whatever was on your back moved to mine. That would explain why you don't feel anything anymore, but I do."

Hearing that, Xiao Wu forgot all about being embarrassed and immediately examined his back carefully. This time, she really did see a strange black bug unlike anything she'd ever seen before.

She reached out and caught it in her hand. Xiao Wu's eyes widened. "Got it! So this little thing was causing all the trouble!"

Zhang Tianyu turned around. The bug Xiao Wu was holding was the Flying Centipede he had released.

This was the same bug that had interfered with Tang Seng during the Journey to the West episode in Chechi Kingdom.

It could turn invisible; once it did, even a Titled Douluo couldn't detect it.

Of course,

it could not only turn invisible, but also rob Xiao Wu of her chastity.