Magical Girls Exposed!

"..."

Fang Ming snapped out of his daze and turned to look at the red-haired girl.

The joy on the red-haired girl's face had vanished without a trace at some point. Her expression was slightly serious as she stared intently at Fang Ming and asked again:

"You won't be like you were in the Sky Screen and sacrifice yourself, right?"

"Why... would you ask that?"

Fang Ming asked calmly.

Aurora lowered her head to look at the gift box in her hands. She placed her hand atop it lightly without opening it.

After waiting quietly for a few seconds, Aurora spoke:

"Probably just a feeling. Because... I always thought that if you really wanted to give us gifts and surprise us, Uncle, it wouldn't be now.

"Right now, Uncle, you feel like... you're about to do something, but you're afraid we'll stop you, so you're giving us things first to put us at ease... something like that."

Having said that, Aurora raised her head again:

"So, Uncle, when you go out this time, you'll come back, right?"

It had to be said that Magical Girls like Aurora, the reckless type, sometimes had intuition that was far too sharp.

Even Xiao Chun had failed to notice it, yet Aurora had guessed something through that unreasonable intuition of hers.

Come to think of it, Xiaoxia was sometimes like that too...

Fang Ming's expression was complicated as he looked at the red-haired girl questioning him.

He did not answer immediately, and Aurora did not urge him to. She simply waited quietly.

A little while later, perhaps dozens of seconds, perhaps several minutes.

After they had looked at each other for a long time, Fang Ming finally smiled and answered Aurora:

"I'll come back. That's my promise."

Aurora smiled. "Mm! I believe you, Uncle!