Chapter 5108: It Was All My Fault
The skinny boy had been hemming and hawing for so long that he finally slipped up.
"This watermelon isn't yours."
"You found it on the road..."
"Isn't that right?"
"And you put it in the bushes..."
The girl's voice rose slightly. "You hid it there so its owner wouldn't find it..."
"Isn't that right!?"
Their suspicions had all turned out to be correct.
This skinny boy...
Really had an ulterior motive!
The skinny boy opened his mouth, closed it, then opened it again...
"...No."
At last, the skinny boy spoke. "I found this watermelon on the road by chance."
"I thought someone had dropped it."
"I waited there for a while, but no one came..."
The more the skinny boy said, the more smoothly he spoke. "So I went ahead and took the watermelon."
"But I had something to do at the time, and couldn't carry it with me."
"So I put it in the bushes."
"I planned to come back for it after I was done."
The skinny boy nodded.
Yes.
That was exactly what had happened.
"...I thought nobody wanted the watermelon anymore..."
The skinny boy explained.
"Then why did you run off when you heard me call you just now?"
The old man still couldn't let that go.
The skinny boy's behavior had been too strange.
It was hard not to suspect that he'd been feeling guilty...
"I didn't run."
The skinny boy sounded indignant. "I just suddenly remembered I had something to do..."
"So I turned around and left."
"What was it?"
The old man blurted out.
The skinny boy rolled his eyes. "What's it to you?"
"You're so rude."
The girl spoke up on the old man's behalf.
"He wasn't