Chapter 5326: Forgot
If he stayed any longer, the middle-aged man feared he might have a heart attack.
But he still had questions...
After hesitating for a few seconds, he clicked his tongue loudly.
He decided to ask his questions before leaving.
"You left that day..."
"Why didn't you show up again after that?"
"Were you done taking revenge on me?"
Based on their conversation today, he couldn't help feeling... the old man didn't seem like someone who was that magnanimous...
Heh.
That counted as magnanimous?
He'd lowered his expectations, too.
The old man's behavior had made him wary of hoping for too much.
The old man tilted his head.
"Forgot."
The middle-aged man: ...
He'd guessed every possibility...
Except a reason this... ridiculous...
"Forgot?"
The middle-aged man found it absurd.
He realized that, throughout his conversations and interactions with the old man, he'd felt a sense of absurdity several times...
"The day after it happened..."
"You forgot about it the next day?"
"Weren't you furious that I ate two of your peaches?"
If those two peaches mattered so much to him, how could he forget about it so easily?
The middle-aged man found it hard to believe that was the reason.
"...Are you lying to me?"
"No."
The old man looked at him in puzzlement. "Why would I lie to you?"
"I never lie."
The middle-aged man: ...
He realized... he actually wanted to believe the old man.
Because the old man sounded so natural.
As if he were simply stating a fact.
"...Do you have a bad memory?"
If the old man wasn't lying...
The only reason the middle-aged man could think of for why he'd forgotten was that he had a poor memory.
The old man was getting on in