Time passed little by little.
Mei and the others had gone to record the music for the show, which had nothing to do with Griseo. At the moment, Griseo was simply painting her own picture.
She had asked Miko to buy an enormous sheet of drawing paper, because the piece she wanted to paint next was going to be very large as well.
"Griseo, what exactly are you trying to paint?"
Looking at little Griseo lying prone on the floor, that posture was admittedly a little inappropriate. If Kyosuke had been home, Miko would never have let her lie like that.
But now... it was just her and little Griseo at home, so it did not really matter.
Thinking of something, Miko Yotsuya picked up her phone and took a picture of little Griseo.
Then she quickly saved it to her album and hid it away.
Though Griseo was tiny and soft and seemed not to understand anything, that was precisely why she sometimes failed to notice just how alluring her unintentional poses could be.
"I want to paint... a dragon."
"A dragon?"
Miko Yotsuya instantly pictured that four-legged, five-clawed sea dragon.
"Mm. More specifically... the dragon Benares!"
Griseo answered Miko while mixing her paints.
"Be... Benares... Oh, right, I remember now. The Judgment-class Honkai Beast that accompanied the Herrscher of the Void—the dragon! I thought you were going to paint a Shenzhou-style dragon."
Griseo had once said she could paint anything—modern art, oil paintings, manga, and even Shenzhou-style ink paintings, landscapes, and portraits.
Until now, Griseo had mostly painted oil paintings and manga. Miko had never seen her paint traditional Shenzhou ink paintings.
And dragons were rather common subjects in Shenzhou ink paintings.
They had a grand, incredibly lifelike quality...
"Why did you suddenly want to paint Benares? Does