In the end, Lu Xiaoxiao used her usual knack for joking and bantering to brush off Ji Yunhuai's questions about the "little blond, blue-eyed child."
Well... it was hard to say whether Ji Yunhuai actually believed her. Even Lu Xiaoxiao had felt decidedly unsure of herself while spinning that nonsense. But since he finally stopped asking, she took the opportunity to change the subject.
The reason Ji Yunhuai had appeared before Lu Xiaoxiao at that particular moment was that he still remembered what she had said before coming here. He had deliberately checked the location tracker in her phone case to engineer a "chance encounter."
Once the fuss over the unfamiliar child had passed, he naturally accompanied Lu Xiaoxiao on an afternoon of shopping, and the two had a wonderful time.
It was not until evening, when an unexpected work call forced Ji Yunhuai to leave early, that 037 silently reappeared with the capsule toy Lu Xiaoxiao had been longing for. Then it retreated into the depths of her consciousness, utterly wilted.
-Ji Yunhuai and Lu Xiaoxiao had certainly enjoyed their shopping trip, but following them all afternoon while ducking out of sight had exhausted it!
Never in its wildest dreams had 037 imagined that a "desk worker" whose primary job was looking up information would someday have to do physical labor a hundred times more exhausting than an eight-hundred-meter run.
In theory, it could instantly return to its consciousness form no matter how far it was from Lu Xiaoxiao, but it did not dare abandon the capsule toy along the way! She would kill it when it got back!
So by the time it could finally rest, 037 was too tired even to speak.
Ugh! Being human was so hard! It was more than a little miserable!
Two days