"...Forget it."
The skinny boy waved a hand.
"As long as someone apologized, that's enough."
The skinny boy shook his head.
"I'm leaving."
"Next time, I won't just pick things up off the road..."
"You should have turned it in to the police."
Xiao Xiao smiled.
The skinny boy froze.
Huh?
"Then none of this trouble would've happened."
Xiao Xiao raised an eyebrow.
"We can't read minds."
"We had no idea what you were thinking when you hid the watermelon."
"So we had to take up some of your time"
"and ask you to explain yourself."
The skinny boy: ...
The corners of his mouth twitched twice.
This guy...
The satisfaction he'd felt at thinking he'd gained the upper hand vanished in an instant.
The girl's eyes lit up.
She nodded quickly. "Exactly."
If the boy had answered their questions from the start, they wouldn't have spent so long going back and forth with him.
If he didn't want to deal with strangers' questions, then, as he'd said, the skinny boy shouldn't have hidden the watermelon himself.
He should have handed it straight to the police.
Then nobody would have come asking him questions.
But he'd wanted to keep the watermelon...
So he couldn't blame others for questioning him.
"That's right."
The old man nodded too.
It should have been a very simple matter.
Wait...
The old man suddenly realized something.
"If you only took the watermelon because you thought someone had thrown it away..."
"why didn't you tell us that when we questioned you?"
"Didn't you want the watermelon's owner to find it?"
The skinny boy had said himself that he hadn't meant to keep the watermelon for himself...
He'd only decided to take it after nobody came back for it.
So...
When