"Honorary Knight, what does 'checking the water meter' mean?"
Ever the curious child, Klee earnestly posed the question to Lin Ze, who stood outside the door.
"Oh, it's a kind of greeting."
Lin Ze answered with a smile, and just then, the door opened.
A woman emerged, looking utterly exhausted, with disheveled hair and tear tracks still on her face. Her gaze swept over the two handsome men with distinctly different styles and the fresh-faced young man outside her door. First she froze in surprise, then she suddenly jumped.
"God! I swear, this is the best birthday present I've ever received!"
"Holy shit, Brenda, I love you! I never thought you'd splurge this much for your best friend!"
Huh?
Shouting excitedly, the woman flung the door open. In a flurry of movements, she hurriedly straightened her wrinkled dress and tried to tame her bird's nest of hair.
"Sorry, sorry, it's a little messy in here. Come in."
Watching the woman apologize while fixing her hair, and hearing what she had let slip, Lin Ze concluded that they seemed to have come to the wrong place.
Once they stepped inside, they could see the whole room.
They really had come to the wrong place. This was clearly the home of a woman who lived alone.
"Excuse me, ma'am, I think there's been a mistake. We're looking for someone."
"Huh?"
The woman, who was hurriedly stuffing the scattered bottles on the floor into the gaps in her sofa, froze at his words.
She calmed down and stood up. Only then did she notice the two little girls and the teenage girl following behind the men and the young man.
"You... aren't the birthday present Brenda sent me?"
"Uh... I'm afraid this is a very unfortunate misunderstanding, lovely lady."
Kaeya answered apologetically.
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