Appearance-ism
Because she was a child, she did not yet understand the ways of the world and would bluntly show what she liked and disliked.
Later, under the princess's insistence that everyone should be treated equally, whether rich or poor, beautiful or ugly, the child's behavior became much more restrained.
But the child would occasionally still mutter that everyone around the princess ought to be carefully selected beauties.
Whenever that happened, she really wanted to knock open the child's head and take a look inside.
To remind the child: Don't get too deeply into the role.
The girl with slanted ponytail felt that the child had started strong but ended weak.
The child's behavior just now had even led her to a frightening conclusion.
As a result...
"You were scared because that old man didn't fit your standards of beauty..."
"So you were frightened?"
"And ran away?"
The girl with slanted ponytail's expression was somewhat strange.
This child...
How was she supposed to put it...
Actually, it was perfectly normal for a child to be frightened to tears by an intimidating adult.
Thinking about it that way...
It seemed that running away in fear was not so strange after all.
The problem was...
The child was usually unafraid of the insects most girls feared, and even dared to chase cockroaches...
The girl with slanted ponytail almost had to concede defeat on that point.
And yet...
She had been scared into running for her life by an old man...
And...
The girl with slanted ponytail suddenly thought of something.
She took the little girl's parasol from the bag she carried with her.
After arriving at this mall, that boy had returned the child's parasol to her.
She had also returned the boy's umbrella to him.
"Your umbrella."
The girl