"I don't have time to joke around with you right now," Gothic Lolita Bi said, crossing her arms.
"Do you think I would joke with a little girl? That would be illegal," Li Changzhou replied.
"So, you're really a vampire?" She snorted disdainfully with her little nose, "If you want to play an erotic role-playing game, find someone else. I'm almost thirteen and not interested in that stuff."
"....."
The intense sunlight reflected off the distant house's windows, converging into a blinding point of light.
Beneath the elm trees on the street, the cicadas sounded like a heavy rain.
July 12, 1880, in Monroe Park Town, under a windless sky on a scorching summer afternoon.
Li Changzhou and Bi stood in the darkest corner of the carriage, looking at everything in front of them.
"I have an idea."
"Hmm?"
"I'll sit on your head, and you hide under my skirt," she suggested.
"...Are you serious?" Li Changzhou looked away, his eyes already tearful from the pain of just looking.