After muttering a few words, Klein could only put on an inscrutable air and say mildly:
"I understand."
The Hall Earl Family's luxurious villa.
Audrey sat on a swing in the little garden, swaying gently. In her Spectator State, she quietly watched everyone who passed through the garden.
Although she had long since stopped needing to act as a Spectator, the habit she had developed was impossible to change.
Just then, she saw an excited Susie sneak behind the flowers toward a corner people seldom visited.
She froze slightly, feeling that the scene looked familiar. Quietly following, she crouched beside the flowers and peered through the gaps in the foliage.
Susie stopped two or three meters from the boundary wall and sat upright, wagging her tail and looking up.
Soon, a slender black figure appeared atop the wall, then leaped lightly down.
"Huh? Is that... Lilith? Is Edward here?"
A thought struck Audrey. If it were him, he wouldn't need to climb over the wall.
Susie happily ran over and circled Lilith twice. Then she raised a foreleg to put on the glasses hanging around her neck and said with a serious expression:
"Today, we'll start by practicing pronunciation again."
With that, she opened her mouth and made vocal warm-up sounds: "Ah, ah, ah," and "Ya, ya, ya."
Lilith copied her, making the same "Ah, ah, ah" and "Ya, ya, ya" sounds in a little girl's voice.
Then Susie vibrated the air and continued:
"Hello."
"How are you?"
Lilith's voice was a little halting. "Hel... lo. How... are you?"
Susie wagged her tail happily. "That's right. Now repeat after me: 'Susie is Lilith's best friend.'"
"Su-shie... is Lilith's... best..."
Before she finished, Lilith suddenly turned her head. "Not... right!"
Susie's tail immediately drooped. "Oh, am I not your best