The little fox clearly liked Ei very much, and for the rest of the time, she stubbornly clung to Ei’s side.
Ei felt a little troubled; she had absolutely no experience dealing with such a little creature, and several times she reached out to try and pull the pink fur-ball off, only for the fox to nimbly dodge away.
Saiguu simply entrusted the little fox to her, asking Ei to help look after her for a while.
The little fox seemed very satisfied with this result, jumping around quite energetically, leaving Ei as the only one “injured” on the scene.
It was inconvenient for so many people to move together, so they had planned to meet up, grab a bite to eat, and then split into groups.
This solved that problem perfectly, as Ei and the pink ball, who had been named Miko, were assigned to the same group.
After confirming that Ei wasn’t actually bothered by this, Saiguu quickly and happily greeted the three people remaining, then scooped up the Tengu and Oni beside her and made a quick getaway.
Looking at her retreating figure, it was hard to say that this White-haired Fox wasn’t feeling the joy of being rid of the job of babysitting.
Makoto leaned over and whispered to Clementine: “How about we go for a walk too?
Just the two of us, and let Ei and Miko go together.” “Wait for me here for a moment, I’ll be right back, and then we can go together, alright?” Clementine agreed without asking what she was going to do.
After Makoto left, she felt a bit bored, and she and Ei, who was equally at a loss, stared at each other.
Neither of them was very good at talking, so for a while, the biggest source of sound nearby became the little fox’s soft whimpering.
Ei sighed slightly and muttered: “Actually, I have no idea how to take care of a child.” Clementine racked her brains trying to comfort her, but felt it wasn’t very effective herself.
“But Ei is very popular with small animals, right?
Raising a fox should be about the same as the finches you usually feed, so don’t worry too much.
Besides, Ei is a gentle person who respects others’ opinions, so you will definitely be able to do this well.” She glanced at the little fox, who had calmed down a bit, and continued: “Just like this little one, everyone thinks she’s a child and treats her with extra care, but children usually want to be adults and don’t want this kind of special attention.
Ei just happens to be the person who treats her as an equal, which is why she likes you more.” Ei looked thoughtfully at the pink fox, who was acting cute and well-behaved.
“So that’s how it is.
Alright, I will give it a good try.” “Looking at it this way, clearly you are better suited to raising a fox than I am.” Clementine glanced at the little fox, who wanted to dart behind Ei the moment she met her golden slit pupils, and silently spread her hands to Ei, meaning:’See, she doesn’t like me.’ Ei earnestly reasoned with the little fox: “Miko, why are you afraid of her?
Clementine is very easy to talk to, and she is very reliable if you need help.” But small animals have a natural instinct.
Among the group of people they had just met, it seemed only this dragon with golden eyes was the type who would actually catch her and give her a beating when she caused trouble.
Miko didn’t think she could pretend to be a well-behaved fox all the time, so she decided to stay away from the evil dragon who was very dangerous even when she wasn’t being dangerous.
So she barked a few times, seemingly in response to Ei’s words.
Ei frowned in confusion and cast a look of help toward Clementine.
“If you say it like that, I don’t understand fox language either.” Clementine expressed her inability to help; she wasn’t a composite talent who understood beast language, and even when she was in dragon form, she spoke human language.
Resting her chin on her hand, she watched Ei and Miko struggle for a while, but ultimately failed to understand what Miko’s different whimpering sounds meant.
Clementine thought for a moment, curled her fingers slightly, and pulled a poetry book out of thin air.
Ei thought the cover of the book looked familiar; it seemed to be the style her older sibling often read.
The thunder dragon spread the book open in front of the little fox and asked: “Can you read?” Miko let out an innocent and guilty bark.
So the book that had just been pulled out was closed again only a few seconds after being opened.
Clementine looked at the book, wanting to say something but stopping herself.
Although the other party didn’t say a word in the end, Miko inexplicably felt that in the next second, she would blurt out a sigh of: “How are you illiterate?” Ei saw the little fox inexplicably gnashing her teeth, felt a bit confused, and sighed lightly.
“Forget it, it doesn’t matter.
I’ll just keep guessing.
Or I’ll ask Saiguu later if there’s any translation method.” Clementine glanced at Ei, who had no ill intentions, and asked casually: “Speaking of Saiguu, I felt she was acting strange as soon as we met today.
Do you know what’s going on?” Ei was a bit confused, not knowing where the strangeness was.
Clementine rigorously gave examples of the White-haired Fox’s strange looks and whispering.
Ei subconsciously replied: “Isn’t she like that every day?” Clementine was a bit speechless.
“If you really have to talk about today,” the honest child Ei answered truthfully: “They were betting on when you and Makoto would get together, because it seems like you two have been spending an unusually large amount of time together lately?” “Huh?” Clementine subconsciously opened her mouth and let out an ambiguous syllable.
The time they spent together was clearly the same; it was just that Makoto had been relatively free lately, which made their interaction time longer.
Clementine retorted slightly in her heart.
Ei saw the other party’s reaction, nodded knowingly, and said: “I also think it’s quite strange, but well, that’s just Saiguu’s style.” Miko on the side first nodded at this complaint about Saiguu, looking like she was also a victim.
Then she let out two hurried whimpers with slight confusion.
Ei pondered the context of the conversation and guessed: “You want to ask what is strange?” After receiving a nod from the pink little fox, Ei answered sincerely: “The strange part is, aren’t you two already together?” ?
A huge question mark appeared in Clementine’s mind.
How could she herself not know about such a thing?
She asked with some difficulty: “Wait, why would you think that?” Ei tilted his head and looked at her, not feeling that she had understated anything major.
“Ah, indeed, neither you nor Makoto have said anything.
But I feel that way.
Since the last Sacred Sakura cleansing, I’ve felt that the aura of you two interacting has changed; it should be said that it has become more intimate and fused.
And I can occasionally feel that Makoto’s thoughts also started to change a bit at that time, so I just guessed.” After speaking, she looked at Clementine again, this time seemingly with a bit of resentment that the other party had snatched her older sibling away without a sound.
Clementine, receiving this look, didn’t know how to explain, so she had to remain silent.
But obviously, her silence was easily taken as default by Ei.
The thunder dragon then had active psychological activities surging in the silence.
Makoto must know that Ei misunderstood this, right?
Why didn’t she stop her?
It made me so shocked by this news that I forgot to manage my reaction.
Or, why didn’t she tell me?
If she had asked, it’s not like I wouldn’t have agreed.
The vengeful thunder dragon, feeling that she had inexplicably suffered a loss, decided to pretend she didn’t know about this and would just wait for the other party to bring it up first.
It might not seem tempting right now but who knows what the future holds?
“And If you’re enjoying it, drop a Power Stone for me!”