"Hey! Monster, do you want me to poke out that ugly eye on your forehead for you? Then you'll only have two eyes..."
A slightly chubby boy with snot on his face and a crew cut grabbed the Three-Eyed Girl's hair, making it impossible for her to break free.
Then, the Snot-nosed Boy took out a pair of scissors from his pants pocket and lightly gestured with them on the girl's forehead, threatening and intimidating her.
"Wuwuwu-! Please don't do this! Please spare me!" The Three-Eyed Girl knelt on the ground, begging for mercy with teary eyes.
But no matter how much she pleaded, the children surrounding her all looked at her as if she were a joke and a monster, mocking and cursing her, their faces twisted and ferocious. The adults on both sides of the road watched with an attitude of standing by, or even watching a show.
Suddenly!
A chocolate ice cream cone flew directly through the circle of children, "Whoosh!" It hit the Snot-nosed Boy directly in the face, smearing him all over.
"Ah!...Damn it!"
The Snot-nosed Boy subconsciously released his right hand that was gripping the Three-Eyed Girl's hair and quickly wiped off the chocolate ice cream stuck to his face. He roared angrily, "Who did this good deed!"
As he spoke, all the children gathered together, including the Snot-nosed Boy, turned their heads toward the direction the chocolate ice cream had come from. They saw a silver-haired young man standing not far away, wearing a black suit, with an enchanting and handsome face. Obviously, he was the one who threw the chocolate ice cream cone...
Meeting everyone's gaze, Sephiroth's expression was indifferent. He said coldly, "You bunch of smelly brats, if you don't want to be beaten till you cry, then hurry up and... get lost!"
As the last word was spoken with a deliberately emphasized tone, a faint pressure enveloped the children.
Gulp! ×n
"Hurry up!"
"This guy is so scary!"
Under Sephiroth's piercing gaze, those bad children who were bullying the Three-Eyed Girl all turned around and ran away, completely losing their arrogant and overbearing attitude from before.
As Sephiroth's gaze swept across the street, the pedestrians who were watching the commotion also quickly turned their heads away, not daring to look at him, and left quickly.
"Little sister, are you okay? Are you hurt..." After chasing away the onlookers, Sephiroth walked over to the Three-Eyed Girl and squatted down. He took out a blue handkerchief from the pocket of his black suit jacket and handed it to her. The Three-Eyed Girl took the blue handkerchief, tears in her eyes, and stared blankly at the silver-haired young man whose face was filled with a gentle smile.
At that moment, she felt as if she'd been saved. The young man before her was like an angel sent from heaven, so heartwarming.
"Wuwah-!"
Thinking about it, the Three-Eyed Girl immediately threw herself into Sephiroth's arms, uncontrollably wailing as if she wanted to vent all the sadness and pain in her heart.
"Alright! Good girl, it's okay…"
Through his Observation Haki, Sephiroth could clearly feel the change in the Three-Eyed Girl's emotions. Therefore, he could only gently pat her back while comforting her.
After a long while, the Three-Eyed Girl's emotions gradually calmed down. She left Sephiroth's embrace and said sincerely, "Big Brother, thank you for saving me!"
"It's nothing, just a small effort!"
Sephiroth looked at the eye on the girl's forehead, and combined with the fact that this was Totto Land, he inexplicably thought of someone...
So, he tentatively asked, "Little sister, what's your name?"
"Pudding... My name is Pudding! What about you, Big Brother?"
"Uh!?... Just call me Sephiroth..."
After confirming the girl's identity, Sephiroth couldn't help but feel a bit speechless. "Speaking of which... why were you bullied like this by them?"
Logically speaking, Charlotte Pudding was the daughter of the Four Emperors Big Mom Charlotte Linlin, and practically royalty in Totto Land. To be bullied by a group of unknown little brats was absolutely outrageous! However, he thought back carefully and realized that in the original plot, Mama seemed to have always adopted a hands-off attitude toward her children, letting them grow wild. Her family education policy seemed even worse than Kaido's! After all, at least Kaido understood the principle of "a filial son comes from strict discipline," and he fully put it into practice.
Mm! As for raising Yamato into a fiercely rebellious and unfilial daughter, that could only be said to be Kaido's excessive effort, thus becoming a negative example... Facing Sephiroth's question, Pudding couldn't help but lower her head, somewhat self-consciously. She raised her right hand and touched the third eye on her forehead.
She said in a voice full of self-consciousness and timidity, "Because I have a third eye on my head... It's ugly, so they laugh at me and call me a monster. Even Mama says my eyes look very disgusting and she doesn't want to see me... Big Brother, do you also think I'm disgusting... a monster?"
Hearing this, Sephiroth smiled lightly, raised his right hand, and gently stroked Pudding's soft, light brown long hair.
He said sincerely, "How could I!...I think Pudding is very cute! In the future, you will definitely become a very beautiful girl."
In Sephiroth's opinion, Pudding's facial features were already very cute. Even with the third eye on her forehead, it didn't significantly detract from her inherent cuteness.
"Re... Really?" Pudding slightly raised her head, her three eyes staring blankly at Sephiroth before her.
Since birth, due to the third eye on her forehead, Pudding had always lived a life of discrimination and ridicule. Even her Mama Charlotte Linlin, and some of her siblings, mocked and disliked her. Therefore, this was the first time she had been praised for being cute.
Thinking of this, Pudding couldn't help but look dejected. She murmured softly:
"Big Brother, thank you for praising me and comforting me. However, I still know... I'm actually very ugly, which is why the people around me discriminate against and dislike me."
"No! I'm telling the truth, you are really cute!" Sephiroth noticed that the girl before him had once again become sad and depressed. So, he immediately gently lifted Pudding's chin, leaned in, and gently kissed her forehead, right where the third eye was...