On the other hand, Eterna, who had just returned home, stared up at the ceiling, puzzled. She could sense that Milkit and Flum were on the second floor.
“There’s no answer. Are they sleeping?”
Ink, who had come home together with Eterna, tugged at her clothes.
“What’s the matter, Ink?”
“Eterna…I think that we might have interrupted them at a really, really bad time.”
“Did you hear something?” Ink wasn’t able to see, but in exchange, she had better hearing than other people. It seemed that Ink had indeed heard something, as she nodded somewhat shyly.
“The two of them sounded much more passionate than ever before.”
“What did they say, specifically?”
“They were talking about kissing.”
“So…they’ve started dating?”
“I think so.”
Eterna had a visibly troubled look on her face. “Meaning, in other words, we’ll be seeing that more than ever before… Ugh, my stomach’s starting to hurt.”
She was terrified at the idea of coming home to this every day, like being forced to drink highly concentrated sugar syrup. Ink gently rubbed Eterna’s belly, as if to comfort her.