Disabled!?
That discovery made the child feel even guiltier about what she had thought earlier.
And...
The child finally realized.
Just now...
This uncle had saved her.
This uncle had saved her.
And she'd been complaining about how ugly he looked...
And he was disabled, too...
The child thought she was such a bad person.
She was overcome by a deep sense of guilt.
"Hey!"
The old man shouted.
The child shuddered.
She almost leaped into the air.
She immediately looked up toward the sound.
Then she was surprised to see...
It was the old grandpa.
The old man was somewhat annoyed at being ignored, and somewhat confused.
"What are you spacing out for?"
"I've called you several times..."
The child had acted as if she hadn't heard him at all.
She hadn't reacted in the slightest.
Huh?
The child was suddenly flustered and at a loss.
She...
She turned her head.
She'd been focused on the uncle and hadn't heard the old grandpa...
"What are you looking at?"
The old man looked suspiciously in the direction the child was facing.
The child wasn't good at hiding her emotions.
The way she looked...
It was just like she was looking at someone...
But...
The old man knitted his brows.
There was no one here except him and the child.
There wasn't anyone else.
Huh?
The child froze.
What was she looking at?
The child opened her eyes wide, bewildered.
"U-Uncle..."
She was looking at the uncle.
The child looked at the uncle, then at the old grandpa.
How strange...
"D-Did you two have a fight?"
The child murmured.
Why weren't they looking at each other?
Why weren't they talking to each other?
The child felt uneasy.
She didn't like fights.
And she