Kinoshita Mai:φ(≧ω≦*)? "Kitty cat~ come here, come here~"
Kinoshita Mai, who finally spoke the language that humans should speak, waved to the big orange on the top of the wall.
Daju: "..." (Damn, mentally retarded.jpg)
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Looking at Kinoshita Mai who looked like two people compared to the day before, Qingto felt a lump in his throat for a moment...
——It seems like... I saw something I shouldn't have seen...
Qingteng silently retracted the foot he had raised just now, preparing to move towards Kinoshita Mai...
——What should I do...? Should I pretend that I didn't see anything and get out of here quickly...?
Qingto instinctively felt that it would be very bad if Mai Kinoshita knew that he had witnessed her behavior just now, which was like a performance art.
Qingdeng was currently standing directly under a branch filled with snow.
When Qingden was thinking about whether to retreat quickly, the branches above his head kept bending because they could not bear the weight of the snow.
A small handful of snow slowly... slipped into Qingdeng's back collar under the pull of gravity.
"Alas……!"
Qingden, who was not expecting the handful of snow that suddenly fell into his collar, couldn't help but let out a low scream.
Qingdeng's cry was not loud.
But the sound was more than enough to reach Mai Kinoshita's ears...
A strange scream suddenly came from the side, and Kinoshita Mai's body shook several times due to fright.
Frightened by the sound, she quickly turned her head in shock -
Kinoshita Mai:(?Д?)
Tachibana Aoden:(°ー°〃)
The two people with completely different expressions looked at each other in an atmosphere of deathly silence...
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How much time has passed?
10 seconds? 20 seconds? Qingdeng felt so embarrassed that even his sense of time became a little blurry.
Kinoshita Mai seemed to have lost consciousness, her red lips slightly opened, and she looked at Qingden blankly.
Looking at Kinoshita Mai whose soul seemed to have left her body, Qingto understood very well.
Let's compare our feelings - if he was showing a strange expression while "meowing" at the wild cat on the roadside, and let outsiders see it...
Well, although the body will not die, the mind will.
After a long time passed, I finally saw Kinoshita Mai as if she had come back to life, her eyes slowly widening.
Immediately afterwards... a bright red color, like blood, centered on the child's cheeks and quickly spread to the roots of her ears.
Vaguely, Qingdeng seemed to be able to see white "steam" coming out of the child's head, as if something had been cooked...
The girl who became the "Steam Princess" moved her lips and twisted her hands and feet uneasily.
She opened her mouth to Qingdeng, as if she wanted to say something to Qingdeng.
But as soon as her red lips opened, a hint of shrinkage and timidity appeared between her eyebrows, and she was unable to say a word to Qingdeng.
Looking at Kinoshita Mai who was so shy that she shivered and hesitated to speak, Qingto raised his hand to scratch the hair on his temples with an embarrassed expression, and then slowly walked towards the "Steam Princess".
"Well... I'm sorry. I didn't intentionally hide and peek... I just happened to pass by here..."
In order to ease Kinoshita Mai's nervousness and shyness, Aomori tried his best to use a soft tone.
Kinoshita Mai raised her eyes and glanced at Qingden who was walking up to her. Then she seemed to dare not look at Qingden and quickly lowered her head as if she wanted to bury her head in her chest.
"……I remember you……"
Hearing Kinoshita Mai seem to be speaking, Qingto quickly concentrated his whole body and mind.
Kinoshita Mai's voice at this time was the same as when she first met her the day before yesterday, as thin as a mosquito's moan. Even though she was standing in front of Kinoshita Mai now, if she didn't concentrate, it would still be difficult to hear what she was saying.
"Are you... the customer who came to our store the day before yesterday...?"
"Yes." Qingden nodded quickly, "I just went to your Qianshiya the day before yesterday and was taken care of by Boss Kiryu."
Kinoshita Mai's head tilted upward slightly.
Qingden felt a nervous and shy gaze.
"Did you just...see the whole process of me playing with that cat...?"
——You don’t care what you called playing with a cat just now? The cat ignored you at all. It was just you unilaterally harassing the big orange, right?
Qingto took a deep breath, suppressed the urge to complain, and while thinking about how to politely answer Kinoshita Mai's question, he hesitated:
"Well... I actually didn't see much. I only saw you waving to the big orange cat and asking it to come over."
If he told this child that he had completely seen the whole process of how she "conversed" with the big orange... then Qingdeng felt that this child might be more than just emitting "steam"...
Therefore, Qingdeng decided to tell a white lie.
However - although Qingteng had lied specifically to take care of the "Steam Princess"'s mood, the child still buried his head lower and lower because he was even more shy...
Stronger "steam" also floated out from Kinoshita Mai's head at this time...
Mai Kinoshita is only 1.5 meters tall.
Qingdeng is 1.75 meters tall.
Due to the height difference between the two of them, after Kinoshita Mai buried her head until her chin was almost touching her collarbone, Qingden standing in front of her could only see her hair but not her face.
However, although Kinoshita Mai's face could not be seen, Qingto could see Kinoshita Mai's two small ears.
Just now, Kinoshita Mai's earlobes were only red, but now, her entire ears were dyed a beautiful pink color.
Even his ears were so red... Qingden could hardly imagine the color of this child's face now.
Qingden felt that if he didn't say or do something quickly, the temperature of Kinoshita Mai's cheeks might even rise further...
"...Don't worry." Qingdeng let out a long breath, "I won't tell anyone what I just saw."
Qingdeng has never been a big-mouthed person.
Making other people's little secrets public - this is something Qingdeng doesn't like to do, and he won't do it.
Moreover, even if he wanted to tell others about Kinoshita Mai's foolishness just now, he had no one to talk to. After all, he and Kinoshita Mai didn't have any friends in common.
After hearing Qingto's words, Kinoshita Mai didn't make any reaction.
He just continued to blush and lower his head.
Qingteng thought that Kinoshita Mai didn't hear what he just said, and when he was about to repeat what he said just now——
"……Thanks……"
A soft voice that was so weak that it seemed like it would disappear at any moment floated faintly into Qingdeng's ears.
Kinoshita Mai, who had been pressing her chin against her collarbone since just now, finally slowly raised her head.
Kinoshita Mai's cheeks were still so red that it felt like blood might seep out of them at any time.
Her lips were still pursed.
However, the corners of her mouth were slightly raised in a shy arc.
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