This was...
Heh.
Doll tugged at the corner of her mouth.
She was... utterly defeated.
"If you don't want to pay, that's fine."
The glasses girl smiled. "Then have the shopkeeper come back."
"The watch was broken in the flower shop. We can talk to the shopkeeper directly."
That was even more unacceptable.
Doll rejected the option without thinking.
She had volunteered, insisting on watching the shop for the shopkeeper.
And now she'd caused trouble, only to make the shopkeeper come back and clean up after her.
If that happened...
How could she ever face the shopkeeper again?
Even setting that aside, she understood the simple principle that you had to deal with your own problems.
Right now, she just hoped the shopkeeper wouldn't be back for a while.
If he returned in time to witness this, she wouldn't know how to explain it.
"The shopkeeper isn't here?"
Liuli looked around the shop.
Sure enough, there were no other customers besides them, and no one who looked like the shopkeeper.
"Yeah."
Doll nodded. "The shopkeeper went out to take care of something."
"I'm watching the shop for him."
Liuli's mouth twitched.
She was already watching the shop for him.
Looks like this girl was making good progress.
But...
The other party's suggestion made sense, too.
"You're not going to call the shopkeeper back?"
After all, the accident had happened in the flower shop.
She thought it was reasonable for the other party to want the shopkeeper to return so they could discuss it.
It was like when a student got into a conflict at school that led to an accident: the student's parents would first approach the school, not the other student's parents.
Doll was just about to shake her head when she