"You tricked me?!" Hearing Zi Yan's furious roar, Hai Bodong felt vindicated for a moment. Seeing the little girl who had infuriated him until smoke practically poured from his ears get her comeuppance filled him with delight. Soon, however, he noticed the smile on Xiao Yan's face, and that strange feeling from earlier rose in his heart again.
He looked at Qing Lin, then at Zi Yan. This fellow had always killed without blinking, yet whenever he encountered these two little girls, his attitude suddenly became much gentler. He had not even revealed his truly bloodthirsty side. Hai Bodong could not help wondering whether Xiao Yan had some peculiar predilection...
"Xiao Yan..."
"What is it?" Xiao Yan turned to look at Hai Bodong and asked, "Is something wrong, Elder Hai?"
"Nothing, it's just..." Hai Bodong coughed dryly a few times before saying somewhat awkwardly, "I just feel that you seem awfully fond of little girls..."
"Elder Hai, surely you don't think I'm the sort of pervert who specifically preys on little girls?" Xiao Yan shook his head helplessly. "I do treat them better than most people, but that's only because I find their innocent natures appealing. They help liven up the dreary atmosphere, that's all. I don't harbor the slightest improper thought toward them, and I'm not so depraved that I'd go after little girls."
"That's good." Hai Bodong breathed a sigh of relief. At that moment, he did not know that far, far in the future, whenever he recalled those words of Xiao Yan's, he would want to rush up to him, spit in his face, and thoroughly scorn him. You bastard, you still dare claim you're not a lolicon?
Looking at Zi Yan's puffed-up, angry face, Xiao Yan could not help shaking his head with a smile. "Look,