"Why bother?"
"It'll be so awkward when you see with your own eyes that the kids hit someone..."
"Wouldn't it be better to settle this by paying them now?"
"They're even willing to pay some of it themselves so he won't have to pay as much..."
"Sigh."
"Well, you can't put it that way..."
"Didn't the kids say they didn't hit anyone?"
"It's good to check."
"The kids can admit they were wrong, too..."
"Then they won't feel like they've been treated unfairly..."
The bystanders chattered among themselves.
"Shall we go?"
Xiao Xiao asked, turning to the shop assistant.
The shop assistant was a little angry.
Wasn't the other party obviously the one in the wrong?
But this guy...
He acted as if he were the one at fault.
Uh...
The shop assistant hesitated.
This man...
He looked at the young man in front of him, finding him a little strange.
When he'd said he believed the kids earlier...
Had it not been to placate them...
Did he actually mean it?
Was that why he'd acted so... Hmm... What was the word?
Unfazed?
Unruffled?
Confident?
All of them seemed to fit a little.
But none of them seemed quite right.
Oh, come on!
The shop assistant irritably shook his head.
This was so annoying.
"If you're going, then go."
The shop assistant said, sounding rather disgruntled.
Then he turned and walked off without giving anyone a chance to respond.
"Some people just don't appreciate kindness."
The shop assistant grumbled bitterly.
"I was even willing to pay some of it myself, and he still isn't satisfied..."
"He just has to make things more complicated..."
"What a hassle..."
"When the boss sees that I not only failed to bring the money back, but brought people back with me..."
"He'll