Chen Shi held Jirachi in a daze, completely lost as to what was going on!
He had never expected the first thing Jirachi said after waking up to be that they were meeting again! And Jirachi acted as though they knew each other well.
Jirachi had even eagerly thrown itself into his arms.
That had left him utterly baffled.
Beside him, Cynthia recovered from her brief daze and gave Chen Shi a puzzled look.
"Tell me the truth. How old are you, really?"
Chen Shi didn't know whether to laugh or cry at her question.
He couldn't blame her for thinking that. Jirachi was simply too unusual.
Jirachi only woke for seven days every thousand years, yet now it was acting so familiar with Chen Shi. Anyone would find that suspicious.
"What do you mean, how old am I? I'm sixteen! I'm turning seventeen soon!"
"Then how do you explain this?" Cynthia pointed at Jirachi in his arms, giving him a meaningful look.
By then, she had also come to her senses. Chen Shi was definitely a teenager, but for some unknown reason, Jirachi seemed to know him-and know him well.
She had always felt that Chen Shi harbored many secrets and knew things that nobody else did.
But she had never felt comfortable asking.
Now, she felt she had finally caught a hint of what he was hiding.
Chen Shi looked down at Jirachi and fell silent.
Jirachi blinked its big, adorable eyes and smiled when it saw him looking.
How was he supposed to explain this?
There was no explaining it!
But since Jirachi was right there, Chen Shi simply asked.
"Hello, Jirachi. Do you know me?"
Jirachi nodded its little head vigorously. "Yes! Shi was so nice. He played with me!"
"Mm, and Dreepy, too!"
As it