Watching the two people comforting each other with suspicion, I quietly released my senses, checked the room, frowned, and focused my attention again to confirm everything carefully.
The surfaces of the objects we had just collected still retained some faint magical reactions that barely triggered my instinctive alertness.
Including the mattress I'm sitting on right now.
"Could you please confirm if anything unusual happened before?" I asked.
Noticing that the terrifying scene she had imagined had not reappeared, Annie put her hands on her chin, rested them on my shoulders, and used them for support to stretch her body to the other side, peering out.
Hikari quietly brought her legs together, laid her head horizontally after cleaning her face, and then took out her fine teeth from a crevice in her pocket, slowly tidying up her untangled long hair.
This was the first time I had ever seen Yao's face with her hair unbound.
Gone was her usual seriousness, and her proper elegance and poise; instead, she seemed to have aged considerably in an instant. If one ignored her thin cheeks, which had long lost their baby fat, they revealed a touch of youthful innocence under the shadows.
"What do you mean?" Yao Jing asked quietly.
Even though I didn't open my eyes, I felt the same pressure as when I was being stared at by those shimmering, gem-like eyes.
I glanced at Pupu, who was spinning around my ankle, and opened my mouth: "...literal meaning."
“I think you’re overthinking it, Master of the Little Garden.”
Yao then turned his head slightly to the left and right, and was immediately greeted with a soft cry from the girl. He quickly reached out to steady himself in place to prevent himself from rolling off his knees: "I haven't been in this room for long, and I've spent most of my time stuck under the bed. What can I possibly do?"
There are clearly many.
“Since you can unlock the magic I attached to the door lock, you can also manipulate those puppet maids to directly rescue you from your predicament, or simply let your own body open the door and come in. This shouldn’t be a difficult task for you.”
I observed her expression and reiterated the points I had noticed: "Furthermore, unless you have something to do, you don't need to enter my house directly and leave a trace of your magic on the surfaces of things that have been moved and those that haven't." I touched the clothes folded nearby and gently patted the bed. "If I'm not mistaken, the main purpose of the magic you left behind is probably to confirm some information, right? Like... a surveillance beacon?"
The beautiful head remained silent, like a plaster statue.
Hikari, who was combing Yao's long hair, widened her eyes again, showing obvious surprise. Even her hand movements paused and she didn't resume for a long time.
“I don’t know what you’re trying to confirm,” I said bluntly. “However, it’s obvious that you made this decision on short notice after you noticed Annie suddenly walk in.”
"Of course, if we add Pupu, who has been hiding under the bed with you and even showed signs of trying to pull you out, and Annie, who is unaware of your existence, then perhaps Pupu noticed that my door was open earlier, or perhaps it was Pupu who brought you in."
"Huh? Does this matter have anything to do with me?"
Ignoring Annie's excited mutterings after suddenly mentioning herself, I silently looked back at Yao, who remained silent.
It's hard to imagine she would do such a thing.
Although we were initially unfamiliar with each other and there was some wariness between us, after nearly six months of getting to know each other and helping each other, I believe we have built up a certain level of trust. We are no longer as wary of each other as we were at the beginning.
Not to mention, I also have a good relationship with the other three. In some matters, we are partners who can entrust our backs to each other.
Therefore, I simply expressed my confusion calmly.
Instead of immediately flying into a rage and banishing it from the miniature garden.
Without the influence of external forces as before, the rights of the master of the miniature garden are absolute.
I believe she knows this, as evidenced by the fact that she still refers to me as 'Master of the Box Garden'.
As the three of us stared at him with confusion, surprise, and astonishment, the stone-like head sighed.
Having finally settled down, Pupu suddenly turned around noticeably, seemingly peering towards the door.
I turned my head in the direction of my attention and saw the closed door being gently pushed open again, from which walked a female body dressed in an elaborate dress but without a head.
The female knight who had parted ways with her earlier followed closely behind, and while Yao was taking her head to place it, she secretly made a gesture of making rabbit ears behind her back.
"Sit still."
"oh."
Alice, who had been reprimanded, did not turn around to reprimand him. Instead, she stepped back and leaned against the desk, which had been tidied up, and sat down lightly. But she didn't stop there. She picked up an apple from the pile of fruit and started crunching on it.
Yao turned his head and glanced at her, seemingly frowning slightly.
But in the end she didn't say much. Seeing that there was only one empty seat left, the one I usually sat in when I was out and about, she slowly walked over and sat down, letting her long hair fall on her front and back of her neck.
That was a dignified and ladylike sitting posture, with only half of her buttocks on the ground, her back straight, her hands folded and gently placed on her thighs.
The newly opened eyes of the polarized gemstone gazed calmly in this direction, their hidden thoughts completely unfathomable.
“First of all…” Yao slowly opened his mouth, “Please allow me to apologize for coming uninvited.”
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