"Repeat after me. Little tiger."
"Wittle tigher!"
"Big lion!"
"Big wion!"
"Pretty butterfly!"
"Pwetty flutterby!"
Cheng Yu pressed a hand to his forehead in exasperation.
"All right, all right. Go play."
"Yay!"
Watching Snow Spirit patter off into the distance, Cheng Yu felt nothing but helplessness.
About half a year had passed since he had corrected the defects in Snow Spirit's body. During those six months, Cheng Yu had taught her like a father who worried himself sick.
At the very least, Cheng Yu hoped she could express her most basic needs and understand some everyday phrases.
But calling Snow Spirit's ability to learn poor would have been generous. It was an utter disaster.
Because of that, Cheng Yu had carefully examined her soul, consciousness, and internal anatomy. Snow Spirit really did behave like a child with... something wrong with her brain. Cerebral palsy, to put a name to it.
But apart from the differences in her soul, Cheng Yu simply could not find anything abnormal about her.
Thinking back to everything she had done in the brothel, however, Cheng Yu could only chalk it up to her learning from the outside world.
He sighed helplessly again, watching Snow Spirit hop along after some unknown jumping insect a short distance away.
Cheng Yu sighed once more.
"I'll just teach her little by little."
At the dining table, Snow Spirit asked,
"Yuyu! Food! Yummy!"
Cheng Yu nodded.
"If it's yummy, eat more."
Snow Spirit tilted her head.
"More?"
Seeing her expression, Cheng Yu immediately "ate" all the food in his bowl in one go, then "ate" several more bowls.
Then he pointed at the stack of empty bowls.
"More!"
Snow Spirit nodded.
"More!"
For the past six months, Cheng Yu had taught Snow Spirit like this, helping her understand one