He Had It Wrong
The short-haired girl swallowed the words she hadn't finished saying.
The look on her face grew even stranger.
"...Then point it out to us."
"Where's the other fox?"
The boy in the baseball cap looked at Xiao Xiao's shoulder.
Wasn't it right there—
"He must have mistaken it."
Xiao Xiao spoke.
All eyes immediately turned to him.
The boy in the baseball cap paused as he started to raise his hand.
What?
After a brief moment of confusion, the two girls realized that the little fox's owner was giving him an out.
What a kind person.
But the short-haired girl didn't think she was that kind.
The boy in the baseball cap had suddenly appeared and said a bunch of strange things to them...
Letting him off so easily didn't feel like much of a lesson to the short-haired girl.
Maybe next time he'd try the same trick again.
And approach some other girl.
Yes.
Although the boy in the baseball cap denied it...
The short-haired girl was sure he had been hitting on them.
And in a really clumsy way, too.
"You mistook it?"
The short-haired girl wanted to hear the boy in the baseball cap apologize to them, then say that he'd been mistaken.
The boy in the baseball cap stared at Xiao Xiao in shock.
He didn't understand...
The fox with red markings was right there on the boy's shoulder.
He had never expected...
What did this boy mean?
The boy in the baseball cap felt completely confused.
He felt as if he were trapped in a swamp.
He began to grow agitated.
Xiao Xiao gave the boy in the baseball cap a slight wink.
"You mistook it."
The boy in the baseball cap opened his