Chapter 5270: Human Agency
"Let's go."
The little girl's mother pulled her along and hurried away.
She did not look at the child once during that time.
The child was somewhat bewildered.
But he did not pay it any mind.
What he wanted to know more was what the old man had meant just now.
"Old man."
The child looked at the old man.
His eyes held a questioning look.
The old man pulled the corners of his mouth into a grin.
"I said that your fall just now wasn't caused by this old man."
Huh?
The child did not understand.
"But it wasn't caused by you in the first place."
He had fallen on his own.
"...I'm really unlucky."
He lowered his head.
His clothes and pants had all gotten wet from the fall just now.
They were stained as well.
The child furrowed his brows.
He was both angry and helpless.
"I've been so unlucky lately..."
The child could not help but pour out his grievances.
"Nothing goes smoothly."
"I forgot to bring my homework to school, and when I went to the equipment room to get something, I ended up locking myself inside..."
Fortunately, someone else had come to the equipment room to get something too.
He had not been trapped in there for long.
"...I took out my umbrella on a rainy day, only to find that it was broken..."
"Today, I checked my umbrella several times before leaving."
After seeing on the weather forecast yesterday that it would rain today, the child had put his umbrella into his schoolbag that night.
The next morning, he had checked his schoolbag countless times.
He had made sure that he had not left behind his homework, umbrella...
Anything at all.
But in the