The shrine maiden thought so.
"Of course. I'm super amazing!"
The white-haired little ball's tail even perked up.
"Kiana... munch munch... super amazing!"
Zerg echoed her as well.
"Would you like one, Miss Kiana?"
Yae Sakura picked up a large rice ball.
Raiden Mei stopped eating after just one.
Zerg had eaten most of them, but there were still one or two rice balls left.
"..."
Kiana rubbed her stomach.
As it happened, she was hungry too.
Without ceremony, she sat down beside the shrine maiden, holding a rice ball in one hand while pinching Zerg's cheek with the other.
This shrine maiden looked entirely harmless—
Her attitude toward Zerg was purely maternal.
Mm, she was much better than people like Raiden Mei and Bronya.
"Ahem, Zerg, let me ask you something."
After swallowing the last bite of her rice ball, the white-haired little ball cleared her throat a few times.
"Mm?"
Zerg tilted his head slightly.
"Zerg, how old are you this year?"
Kiana asked.
"How old?"
The little child blinked.
"What does that mean?"
He did not understand Kiana's question.
"..."
The white-haired little ball was at a loss for words.
Oh no, she had forgotten how little common sense Zerg had.
"How old you are means how long you've lived in this world, Zerg."
The shrine maiden stroked the child in her arms on the head and gently explained.
"Mm..."
Zerg counted on his fingers, then gave a number.
Then—
Both Yae Sakura and Kiana fell silent.
For a moment, the white-haired little ball felt that she ought to be in prison rather than at this academy.
Why was Zerg's age measured in days?!
Kiana instantly turned ashen.
"..."
Yae Sakura could not speak.
She had never imagined Zerg's age was counted in days.
This, this, this...