Seeing Shimizu Meiyuki looking bewildered and even a little afraid of her, White Snake Loli felt a little hurt.
"Do we know each other?"
Studying the sorrowful White Snake, Shimizu Meiyuki could not help hesitating... then asked again. Since she spent every day with Hiyamaru, Kanou, and the others, Shimizu Meiyuki was not as afraid of monsters as most people were.
"Think carefully. A few years ago... in a rundown shrine, did you let a little white snake go? Although the little white snake never meant to hurt you, she still scared you into tears. Think carefully..."
White Snake Loli anxiously tried to explain herself to Shimizu Meiyuki.
"A shrine... a little white snake... W-wait... You mean you were that little white snake? Y-you're a monster too?"
White Snake Loli's words made Shimizu Meiyuki remember. A few years ago, when she had returned to her hometown, her parents had lost track of her... and she had wandered alone into a rundown shrine, where she stayed for a long time.
Back then, she really had accidentally released a white snake from a jar, and it had scared her into tears!
"Meiyuki, you really do know each other?"
Hiyamaru curiously swayed her fox tail, looking somewhat surprised. Since White Snake Loli knew Shimizu Meiyuki, why had she only been secretly watching from outside? Could she not have just come in directly?
"Meiyuki, thank you! I don't know how long I had been sealed inside that jar. Even more than half of my cultivation had begun to regress... I thought I would remain like that until I died. I never expected you to appear."
White Snake Loli, who looked to be only seven or eight years old, stepped forward a few paces. Before Shimizu Meiyuki could react, she directly hugged her.
However, the