"Can we just let this go?"
"Come on."
Su Qian Qian pushed her companion toward the little shop.
"Let's see what you want to eat."
"Stop scowling."
"Once we've bought popsicles, we still have plenty of places to go."
The girls gradually walked away.
Wenren Yu was just about to follow—
She was already used to not being included when people offered to treat everyone to popsicles.
"...Huh?"
You understood what the short-haired boy meant.
Only now did Wenren Yu realize what the old woman had said. She frowned. "What you just said..."
The big monkey had suddenly pounced at them. It was terrifying.
"She wants to just let this go..."
No matter what that old woman said, you were going to—
But you hadn't heard clearly what the short-haired boy said.
She hurried after Su Qian Qian and the others.
But her pride as a young woman made her nod.
"Still, I should go apologize."
"What?"
Oh, come on!
"Why did you only tell Qian Qian now that you wanted her to apologize to that little monkey?"
It was a very simple question.
Although neither she nor the short-haired boy had ever told Su Qian Qian their true opinions to her face, they both felt the same way in their hearts.
She abruptly turned her head.
Wenren Yu hadn't done it on purpose.
"Are you her friend?"
What?
The old woman turned around.
"If you don't want your life to become a mess, if you don't want to stop being yourself..."
She glanced at the direction the girls had gone, smiling.
That was right.
They were friends.
The short-haired boy instinctively objected.
"This person..."
As if going through the motions, she asked the same question as before.
It was only because they were