Luckily, I now looked completely innocent, without a single bad thought in my head.
No, I never had any bad thoughts to begin with.
Ai Haibara thought to herself and secretly nodded. I was just a harmless little loli. What bad thoughts could a little loli possibly have?
Surely no one actually thought a little loli could have bad thoughts, or have bad thoughts about a little loli, right?
What a pervert~
Listening to this, Fujino fell silent. Momiji and Mira's situation seemed absurd, but when he thought about it carefully, it was not all that absurd:
"Momiji grew quickly from a young age. Her mind was more mature than that of most children her age... in certain respects."
"As for Mira, she really was rather immature mentally."
"Compared to Momiji, she did indeed seem less mature."
"So this actually seemed pretty reasonable?"
Fujino thought about how Momiji usually acted and silently nodded.
Ran had long since grown used to things she did not understand yet found profoundly shocking.
She smiled. "So, Momiji, you and Princess Mira were just having a misunderstanding..."
"A misunderstanding?"
Momiji rubbed her chin and quietly thought it over, feeling that this was not quite reasonable.
Even if it had been a misunderstanding, that little princess had still gotten her scolded!
A misunderstanding was a misunderstanding, but she had still done it!
You could not just say ignorance absolved someone of guilt and let a murderer go free, could you?
That was obviously unreasonable and unscientific.
Even negligent homicide had the crime of negligent homicide!
Momiji pondered silently and decided to pin the Crime of Malicious False Accusation on Mira—negligent malicious false accusation, for short: skipping levels to tattle. In other words, she had skipped over Momiji and gone straight to complain to her grandfather.
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