That look instantly made March 7th bristle.
"Hey, what kind of look is that? Do you think it's stupid that I got charmed at first glance?"
"Yes."
Star nodded with absolute honesty.
March 7th was a wonderful girl. That was practically the consensus of everyone who met her.
Cute, lively, talkative, exceptionally proactive, friendly... She was practically made of sugar, spice, and some other wonderful thing.
But intelligence clearly wasn't included among those wonderful qualities.
"Ah!! I'm not done with you!"
A rare viciousness suddenly surfaced on March 7th's originally sweet and adorable face.
Her figure flashed like a passing breeze, and she instantly circled to Star's side. Her little hand came down without mercy, striking Star's arm and making her pretty face immediately contort in pain, turning her back into a monkey in an instant.
But Star was hardly the type to suffer quietly.
Without even thinking, she reached back and accurately pinched March 7th's slender waist.
March 7th immediately felt waves of pain at her waist. Her little face scrunched up, and she directly pinched Star's waist with force as well, even twisting it in passing.
The atmosphere between them instantly ignited. Like two little beasts, they tangled together with claws and bared fangs, neither holding back in the slightest. It was practically a gray raccoon versus Pink Fatty.
The sight left Cecilia speechless for a moment, with only a trace of helplessness rippling across her lips.
She turned toward Russell.
"Please forgive the spectacle."
"We agreed to take you to see Pom-Pom first, yet we ended up finding the children roughhousing here."
"It's fine. If we only talked business the entire way, the journey would be rather dull."
"Walking over while joking around is much better than talking business all the way there."
At this, someone who