Sensing eyes on her, Miaomiao stopped crunching, raised her head in confusion, and blinked.
"Whass wrong?"
Everyone looked at the girl who had single-handedly taken down the oldest and most powerful Vampire Lord lurking beneath Blüdhaven.
She still held a half-eaten cookie, a few crumbs clung to the corner of her mouth, and her clear eyes were full of bewilderment.
For a moment, everyone fell silent.
"Nothing." Alfred walked over and poured Miaomiao a cup of black tea, smiling kindly. "Miss Miaomiao, there's no rush. Have some tea. I've baked plenty of cookies."
"Thank you, Alfred! Your cookies are the best!"
At the girl's sweet, soft affection, everyone looked away.
Well, it was just a vampire, wasn't it? It wasn't as though she'd killed a human... If they really counted, Dick had certainly killed far more vampires than Miaomiao.
Our Little Fish was such a good girl. How could she possibly have struck to kill unless she'd been terrified?
Bruce looked away and turned back to Dick. "Tell us about your 'dream.'"
That meant he wasn't going to delve into Miaomiao killing Pandora for now. Dick took a deep breath and recounted his dream in full.
"It started just like what happened in reality. Melinda asked me to go to Pandora's Underground Palace with her, and Pandora revealed her true intentions. The only difference was that, in the dream, Miaomiao wasn't there..."
Everyone instantly grew serious.
Without Miaomiao, the Cullen family wouldn't have learned about the fragments of the vision through knowing her, nor would they have made a special trip to help. Which meant Dick...
"I was turned."
Just as they feared.
Dick glossed over the pain and despair of being turned, saying only that he had killed Pandora when she let her guard down, gained the allegiance of