"Heh... hehe, I have something to do. Goodbye!"
Xina backed away with a laugh, then turned and ran the moment she finished speaking, as though Aiou and Mani were something filthy and unclean, and she wished she could get as far away from them as possible.
But the very next moment, Mani and Aiou stuck to her.
Xina walked faster, and Aiou and Mani followed suit.
"Little Mani, why are you following me?" Aiou asked, reaching out to pinch Mani's chubby cheek.
Mani replied righteously, "I'm keeping an eye on you, so no ignorant young girl gets tricked out of her money and body by you."
"Hey, hey, Xina, she just called you an ignorant young girl," Aiou said to Xina.
Xina quickened her pace, feeling that she had truly run into terrible luck today.
Infinite City was vibrant and colorful, but so were its people. There were people of almost every temperament imaginable, and when some of them went mad, they were truly impossible to handle.
For instance, there had once been an alchemist who, in order to determine how life was born, caused a great number of houses in Infinite City to come alive. Once those houses gained life, they developed thoughts, and then wanted to move themselves around a little. The result, naturally, was chaos with chickens flying and dogs jumping.
There had also been the citywide gender-swap incident, the incident where eating beef made a third eye grow, the incident where drinking the city's water got people pregnant, the chain nuclear-explosion incident, the sun-falling incident, and so on and so forth.
The liveliness of Infinite City was often accompanied by chaos.
Ever since she had eaten beef as a child and grown an eye on her butt, Xina had understood that the most important thing for