Chapter 155: Absorption (3)
Following the guidance of Lee Tae, the leader of the river bandits, we set sail toward their base, a floating village, to repair the ship.
While keeping an eye on our direction from the bow, Seol stepped out of the cabin and asked,
“So-ryong, now that its hind legs have grown in, can’t you tell if it’s a frog or a toad?”
She must have been watching Hua-yang’s transformation alongside Hwa-eun. Now that it had hind legs, she was expecting to finally determine what it really was.
But that was still too early to tell.
Shaking my head, I answered,
“Not yet.”
“Why!? Even with its hind legs, you still can’t tell if it’s a frog or a toad?”
‘Why!? Oh, no...’
I flinched at her abrupt question, suddenly wondering if she had caught Cho’s ‘Why?’ disease.
But then I remembered—Seol was way past that age.
Calming myself, I replied,