"Clearly, you were the ones who started trouble."
"So what?"
The man wore a mocking expression.
"You think you can get away with anything just because you're a child and a woman?"
The woman nearly choked with anger.
"You—!"
"What? Am I wrong?"
The man refused to let it go.
He glanced at the police officers beside him. "Officers, could you be a little fair here?"
"She was the one who tried to hit me first."
"I was acting in self-defense."
"I didn't even hit her."
Police officers: ...
If they hadn't stopped him, whether the man would have hit the woman... was anyone's guess...
"Pah."
The man scoffed.
"What a drag."
"I'm outnumbered and outmatched."
"I won't hold it against you."
The man glanced at the woman's wrist.
He was quite pleased with his "masterpiece."
Seeing it, he felt most of his anger ebb away.
He really had to leave now.
He'd already wasted far more time here than he'd expected.
"I'm leaving."
This time, the man didn't ask the police whether he was allowed to go...
He resented how blatantly the police were taking the other side.
What?
Just because he was a man, he had to be the one to suffer?
And just because she was a woman with a child, she was automatically in the right, even though they'd started it?
Tch~
The man clicked his tongue loudly.
With his hands in his pockets, he turned to leave.
He cut a rather dashing figure.
"Stop!"
The woman shouted.
After this man had turned everything into a mess and nearly hurt her child, he was just going to walk away without even showing the slightest remorse?
What kind of joke was this?
The woman started forward.
"Wait."
The captain held out