Driving away a vicious dog was simple. Amamiya Natsuki could do it with ease.
Getting it to accept the outcome, though, was extremely difficult.
As everyone knew, people could never truly understand one another.
On certain matters, the gap between people could be even greater than the gap between people and dogs.
The issue of how to deal with stray cats and dogs could set two groups at each other's throats even in the real world. Getting the evil spirit in this instance to accept the outcome was... a difficulty that could only be described as hellish.
Just as Amamiya Natsuki was considering what to do, the middle-aged woman started up again:
"Every life deserves equal treatment. Not liking dogs doesn't give you the right to hurt one on purpose."
Koyasu Tsubame snapped, unable to hold back:
"I just explained that the dog attacked us first."
"Impossible!" the middle-aged woman said firmly. "That dog is so sweet. How could it possibly attack you? You must hate dogs and have provoked it on purpose. Then it only fought back in self-defense. You're so selfish! If you treated dogs as equals, they'd only see you as friends. They'd never attack you!"
The girl behind Koyasu Tsubame couldn't help asking:
"Have you ever been bitten by a mosquito?"
"Of course," the middle-aged woman replied casually.
The girl shot back:
"If treating them as equals means they won't attack you, why do mosquitoes bite you?"
"And if only a few mosquitoes have ever bitten you, why do you try to swat every mosquito you see?"
"Besides, male mosquitoes don't drink blood; only females do. Female mosquitoes drink blood so they can lay eggs and hatch them. They're 'heroic' mothers, too. So why don't you treat mosquitoes as equals?"
The middle-aged woman looked at her