"...Mai Mingle? Mai Mingle!"
She jolted back to her senses, only then realizing Suo Beihua had been calling her for a while, but she hadn't heard a thing.
Suo Beihua was staring at her, a strange mix of shock and suspicion in her eyes that was hard to interpret. "What's wrong with you? What did you do?"
'...What did I do?'
Mai Mingle said blankly, "Huh? I didn't do anything... Chaisi just disappeared on his own."
The translucent face that had been floating behind her eyes was now completely gone from her vision.
"Brother Chaisi is gone?" Suo Beihua was clearly even more shocked and suspicious. "Where did he go? And how did you recover?"
'Recover from what?'
'How did a few seconds of zoning out turn this conversation into such a tangled mess?'
"Wait, I feel a little confused right now."
Mai Mingle raised a hand, closed her eyes, and tried hard to remember. "Why... why do I feel so muddled? What just happened?"
"How should I know?"
