The Human Heart Is Terrifying

She had only just made the girl cry, though. If she rashly picked her up now, it might scare her even more and make their already fragile relationship even worse.

So after thinking it over for a while, Minami Rika could only helplessly give up on the idea of touching her.

Forget it. There's plenty of time anyway. There'll always be a chance later...

But even though she gave up on touching her, the relationship that ought to be eased still needed patching up.

After all, leaving a child she had scared into tears to keep feeling sad like this was not something Minami Rika could do. She still had some shame.

So, forcefully suppressing the urge to reach out and rua Xiao Mai, Minami Rika crouched down and gave Hamster Umaru an apologetic smile as she said,

"Did I scare you? I'm really sorry. I originally just wanted to make our first meeting a little different, but I didn't expect the act to go a bit too far and make you panic like that. I'm really sorry."

Xiao Mai sniffled. Looking at Minami Rika drawing closer, the hand hugging Wu Tong's thigh could not help tightening again.

"Uh..."

Seeing this, Minami Rika rather helplessly took a golden arrow from her storage space, handed it to Hamster Umaru, and said,

"Let's get to know each other again. My name is Minami Rika, and I'm one of your teacher's wives."

"Take this as my apology and first-meeting gift. Can you forgive me for being rude just now?"

Hamster Umaru blinked her tearful eyes and looked at the two things being held out in front of her, and her mind could not help but...

Huh?

Wait!!

Masaka!!!

Two things?!!!

Hamster Umaru's brain gave a violent tremble. Then she skipped over the Golden