Little Girl

That night,

Perona tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep. She kept thinking about the question from that afternoon: why had her ability not worked on Kaido and that man?

"Liar! You said you'd tell me!"

She hugged Kumashi and gave the plush toy's head a hard punch.

That man had clearly said that afternoon that he would tell her why, but after dinner, he had completely disappeared. He said he wanted to look around the ship, and she had kept waiting for him to come back. But from after dinner until the middle of the night, she never saw him, so she could only return to her room and lie down.

She wanted to sleep, but with something weighing on her mind, she simply could not. This feeling of having something on her mind was truly making her miserable.

"Ahhh—"

She vented her emotions by roughing up Kumashi, the teddy bear.

"Big liar! You don't keep your word! You said you'd tell me! I haven't seen you all night—you're such a big liar!"

Childish by nature, Perona gave Kumashi one last rough squeeze before kicking the teddy bear off the bed.

She was still wearing the same black-and-white striped thigh-high socks from the day. They made her legs look straight and slender. Though she was a little skinny and did not have much flesh on her bones, that lean beauty only made her legs appear longer. As they bobbed up and down on the bed, they looked quite lovely. Above the socks was a short red lace skirt, red and so short that it barely covered her butt. As she rolled around on the bed, glimpses beneath her skirt appeared and vanished. Fortunately, she was alone in the room, so no one saw.

Higher up, she wore a