"...your first reaction..."
The mushroom-haired little girl emphasized those words.
"I don't know."
Lulu was getting annoyed, too.
She really didn't know.
"How could you not know?"
The mushroom-haired little girl had never been this determined to get an answer.
"When you first heard Wang Zhe say that I was lying..."
"What was your reaction?"
"Did you think Wang Zhe was lying?"
Huh?
Lulu froze.
"When you first heard..."
The mushroom-haired little girl repeated, "You didn't know what would happen afterward."
She didn't know that this would cause all her classmates to shun her.
"What did you think?"
Without fear clouding her thoughts...
What had Lulu thought?
Lulu stared blankly.
She seemed to finally understand what the mushroom-haired little girl meant.
But...
Lulu slowly shook her head.
"I... forgot."
Her answer hadn't changed.
Her fingers dug hard into the back of her hand.
A dull ache spread through it.
"Forgot?"
The mushroom-haired little girl widened her eyes.
"That was only a few days ago..."
The mushroom-haired little girl was getting worked up.
But Lulu's expression was like a bucket of cold water, quickly dousing the fire in her heart.
Lulu tilted her head slightly.
"Mm."
"I forgot."
She pressed a hand to her head.
When it came to the mushroom-haired little girl's question, her mind was truly a blank.
What she could remember...
Was Wang Zhe, and her classmates' mouths opening and closing, their faces less than friendly.
As for what she herself had thought...
Maybe she'd been so frightened by Wang Zhe's behavior that she hadn't had any thoughts at all.
Mm.
That was it.
The mushroom-haired little girl's lips trembled.
She still wanted to say something...
On the way here, and even earlier, when she'd repeatedly tried to talk to Lulu alone...
She'd thought of so many things.