"I... only remember him..."
The little girl gestured with her hand.
"He almost bumped into me..."
"Here."
The little girl pointed to her right shoulder.
The little girl puffed out her cheeks.
She looked a little angry. "He didn't even apologize."
"He just ran off."
"Hmph!"
That way, there'd be fewer people looking for the missing child.
The little girl's eyes lit up.
"You remembered..."
Her face was turned up toward the sky, flushed and beaded with sweat.
I looked flustered.
"Thank you."
"I caught you?"
"What's wrong?"
I stomped my foot. "Dad, Mom, they said I did it!"
"You didn't eat his ice cream!"
With Big Boy as an example, Lu Xiaoxiao also stopped to ask people along the way.
She looked at Child's Dad.
Xiao Xiao crouched down.
Huh?
"If I'm not mistaken..."
Lu Xiaoxiao nodded.
"Me!"
That meant Big Boy's words were still their only lead.
Right!
"Is that right?"
They'd been crouching for a while.
"Anyway, at least we've learned something."
Child's Mom looked at the child. "If that's the case..."
"Nannan."
There was nothing left of the ice cream but the cone.
"We don't really remember."
"My ice cream~"
"Wah~"
The bowl-cut little boy seemed awed by those four words.
In any case, they were the only people she'd met after searching for so long who knew anything about the little girl.
She seemed to be trying very hard to remember.
She hadn't even noticed that her child had nearly been hit just moments earlier...
The little girl's face flushed bright red.
The big boy nodded. "You caught me."
The little girl tried for a long while, then a flash of inspiration finally struck. "Don't you dare make baseless accusations!"
"My ice cream is gone..."
It seemed