It was meant to provoke them a little...
When most people were accused like that, whether out of pride or because they genuinely felt a little embarrassed, they would at least try to comfort her, wouldn't they?
This guy...
Did he really have no sense of courtesy at all?
The short-haired girl was both angry and confused.
Even though they were strangers to each other, and there was no courtesy between them to speak of...
But precisely because they were strangers, with no past grievances or grudges, shouldn't he at least show them some courtesy, out of politeness and basic manners?
The short-haired girl irritably took a deep breath.
She felt like her head was pounding.
The joy she'd felt when she first spotted Little Fox had completely vanished.
She truly hadn't expected...
That they'd run into such a difficult situation.
Still...
They really had encountered quite a few unexpected situations lately.
For example...
The pet shop owner had refused their request to borrow one of the shop's pets.
That refusal, they could understand.
But she couldn't make sense of this young man's refusal at all.
Did he simply dislike them?
Had they done something to make him dislike them?
How could he...
Ah~
She screamed inwardly.
What on earth was the reason?
She genuinely couldn't understand it at all.
"Could you tell me why you're refusing us?"
The short-haired girl forced herself to calm down.
"I'm being serious."
There was a piercing intensity in the short-haired girl's gaze.
Even a hint of fierceness.
"I hope you'll give me a serious answer, too."
"Don't joke around with me."
As she saw it, taking that fox's conveniently timed tail wag as its way of rejecting them... was a truly nasty joke.
They had sincerely asked him for a favor.
And