She'd been certain she was hallucinating, but now she wasn't the only one noticing it. Her first instinct was that she was being haunted by a ghost. Kira, a fan of horror movies, wasn't afraid of ghosts; in fact, she found them fascinating. If she had the chance, she'd love to find out if her intuition was right or wrong.
Well, whatever it was, she'd deal with it once she got back to the palace.
"Hey, little cutie, how about Sister takes you to have a warm meal? Dango is delicious, but it's not good to eat the same thing all the time."
When she said this, the child lowered his face even further, almost as if he wanted to make himself invisible. Kira peeked at him from under his bangs and saw that his cheeks were flushed red. She assumed he must be feeling shy. Ah, it was really hard to find cute children like this nowadays. Most of them were already acting like little adults by the age of ten, probably due to early exposure to social media.
