"Miss, your hair looks so weird. Why did you shave this side?"
V's cold-blooded killer act had kept everyone at a distance, but then a little girl emerged beside a tent. She looked no more than five or six.
She could hardly tell a child this was the hottest undercut on the streets, could she?
So she kept her stern expression, hoping to scare the child away-the two of them stared at each other with wide eyes.
"But your eyes and eyebrows are so pretty..."
V had no idea how to handle that.
Fortunately, someone from the Red Ochre Tribe soon came to take the child away.
"Saiwei-what are you doing here? Come on, class is about to start..."
A woman wearing glasses came over and warily led the little girl named Saiwei away.
V showed no reaction, but she still breathed a sigh of relief. It was hard to maintain her cold-blooded killer persona around a child, no matter what she did.
If some idiot had come snooping, she could have pulled a gun to scare them. With a child, nothing seemed appropriate.
Thinking this, she curled her hair around her fingers and wondered:
Is it really that weird? I think it looks pretty good.
Fortunately, Lier and Hector soon finished talking, so V no longer had to stand around.
Only, when they came out, Hector's attitude had completely changed. He looked ready to work himself to the bone for Lier.
But he said little, simply taking the medicine canister Lier had given him and hurrying into a tent.
Watching Hector leave, V asked curiously, "All sorted? What kind of spell did you put on them?"
"Where's Jackie? Let's talk outside."
V pointed toward a large rock outside the camp, where Jackie seemed to be talking to the kid