{Kexing has changed. He would’ve done better at pretending he didn’t care once upon a time. Had his experience in the mountain softened him? The answer is ‘of course’ and Baiyi is quite familiar with it. Although he’d stayed up there so long and so alone he’d hardened instead of softened.

Either way, his discomfort grows when the brat doesn’t immediately take the change of subject for the distraction it was meant to be.

He shakes his head.}

No, he helped me.

{He sighs.}

There was another who was with Xie’er and then with both of us. He ended up being too young and too.. modern. I used to think no one could be more dramatic than you, but these people who are from a time much later than ours are way worse.

There is a man who lives in your manor who turned out to be a poor choice as a friend. As far as I know Zishu still is fond of him so I won’t say more about him.

Relationships here are complicated. The kizuna magic influence can be very annoying. It doesn’t just make people gain these ridiculous animal traits.