Whether it was Pokémon, Princess Mononoke, or Totoro, these were all animations Erii used to love most. Lu Mingfei had seen them in her room: a Pikachu figurine, a Princess Mononoke disc, and a plush Totoro doll.
Those things should have been Erii's friends. Her entire world was filled with such friends—friends who couldn't speak or communicate, yet kept her company always... Even if they were merely the girl's fantasies, they were still the entirety of her world.
Having witnessed the real world, the imaginative girl had personally denied her imaginary friends, saying that none of those things existed in this world. This left Lu Mingfei feeling inexplicably saddened, because Erii was as pure and white as a sheet of paper, and that paper bore only the singular, clean colors of a fairytale world. Yet he had brought Erii out of that little house, and in time, this paper would gradually be stained with the mottled colors of the real world.
Chapter 800