The girl gave an awkward laugh.
She stiffly let go.
"You could've said something. I didn't hear you..."
The girl quietly tried to defend herself.
But the rest of her words died in her throat under the man's increasingly sharp gaze.
"What are you being so fierce for?"
The boy in the baseball cap couldn't stand watching anymore.
The girl hadn't even done anything...
"She called out to you and you didn't react. She was worried, so she grabbed your clothes..."
She'd only tugged on his clothes. Why was he so angry?
The man ignored the boy in the baseball cap.
He only looked at the girl.
His silent gaze asked what she wanted.
"Ah!"
The girl had just been about to say something when she saw the man's left arm, charred black in places. She couldn't help crying out.
How had that happened?
Hadn't it been—
Uh...
The girl froze.
She didn't actually know what the man's left arm had looked like before.
But it should have been fine, right?
"What is it?"
The man couldn't stand the girl's dithering any longer and asked.
His tone was as cold as ever.
He took off his jacket on the right side and draped it over his left arm.
The girl's reaction had reminded him.
If he went out like this, it would cause trouble.
The girl immediately grew nervous.
"Um..."
She drew a deep breath. "Are you... just leaving like this?"
Her problem... A Nan's problem... Had it been resolved?
The girl twisted her hands together, at a loss for words.
"You can ask him about that."
The man lifted his chin and pointed toward Xiao Xiao.
"He solved it."
"I wasn't strong enough."
The girl blinked several times.
She wasn't sure how to