Let's see what Mom can do about me now!
Just then, she suddenly felt the piano keys beneath her fingers turn soft and sticky, with a faint warmth.
She froze involuntarily and looked down. Her little face instantly went deathly pale: at some point, the piano before her had turned into a monster with a gaping maw, a mouthful of sharp teeth, a bright red tongue, and a head densely covered in blood-red eyes. Foul-smelling bodily fluids streamed all over it.
"..."
Bernadette's mind went blank, her pupils fixed in terror.
The next second, the horrifying monster opened its mouth wide and lunged straight at her. Only then did she scream and retreat, but she tripped over the chair and landed on her bottom.
Yet the monster kept drooling and coming closer and closer. Scrambling away, she screamed in terror, "Ah!! Help!"
The next second, the monster abruptly vanished. All she saw before her were the three governesses, looking astonished. The piano still stood there perfectly normally. It had not turned into a monster, lunged at her, or chased her. It was as though everything just now had been an illusion...
No!
Not "as though"!
It must have been Mr. Sparrow!
Bernadette quickly understood. She puffed out her cheeks hard and was about to shout for Mr. Sparrow, but after catching sight of the three stunned governesses beside her, she rubbed her little bottom, climbed to her feet, and ran outside.
Mr. Sparrow was so annoying!
Not only had he teamed up with Mom to bully me, he had even used an illusion to conjure a monster and scare me!
Hmph!
He had to take me out to sea to look for beautiful merpeople again today, or this wasn't over!!
Bernadette ran outside and began looking for Edward. Unfortunately, in