Why didn't you come back if nothing was wrong?
If something else came up, why didn't you tell me beforehand?
You had me worrying for so long for nothing...
With all these thoughts on her mind, the old woman couldn't help sounding a little reproachful.
The old man was a little bewildered.
"I... I don't know either..."
The old man replied instinctively.
He really hadn't expected this young man to come find him today...
And then tell him things that were so surprising, even a little absurd...
Huh?
The old woman froze.
The old man's expression told her he wasn't lying.
There really was a reason he'd been delayed.
Of course.
She'd actually guessed that from the start.
If nothing was wrong, why hadn't he come home on time?
But what surprised her a little was...
Even this delay had caught the old man by surprise.
"I've told you not to go out without your phone..."
The old woman brought up another complaint.
"When you still hadn't come back so late, I called you."
"Then I found your phone charging in the house."
"I was so angry at the time."
"How many times have I told you?"
"You have to take your phone when you go out."
"Then people can get in touch with you if something happens."
"How much space does a phone take up?"
"You..."
"Ahem, ahem, ahem!"
The old man interrupted his wife's stream of nagging with a cough.
He gave her a meaningful look.
There was someone else here.
Honestly, what was with this old woman?
Couldn't she wait until they got home to say all that?
The old woman paused.
She'd been about to pretend she hadn't understood his look.
On the way here, and while she waited, she'd