After Camarcel II's voice had faded, the prosthetic clinic suddenly fell silent for a moment.
Then, a few muffled chuckles broke the quiet.
The girl outside immediately blushed.
She rubbed her somewhat heated face, and her feet nervously shuffled in place for a bit, also to stretch her knees which had numbed from squatting at the door for too long. This was partly because she was anxious and wanted to distract herself.
When Cui Que opened the door from inside, Camarcel II abruptly stopped her actions.
"...Sorry to disturb you,"
Camarcel II said softly.
After she entered, she stood at the doorway, neither daring to move further inside nor daring to look up at everyone's faces—because she was almost certain that if she looked up, she would meet everyone's laughter-filled gazes.
—But from another perspective, what Camarcel II actually feared more was seeing no smiles on everyone's faces when she looked up.
