The girl frowned.
"But I feel like they're brushing me off."
"It feels like they don't believe me, but they're pretending they do."
The staff member and the short-haired man froze.
Oh.
They'd misunderstood the girl's parents and friends.
They had actually been going along with what she said, too.
They just weren't very good actors, and the girl had caught on.
"Hmph."
The girl scrunched up her nose.
"If they don't believe me, then I'm not telling them anything."
"The red-eyed python saved me..."
The girl looked at the staff member and the short-haired man. "Is that so hard to believe?"
The staff member: ...
The short-haired man: ...
Well...
They smiled.
"Did you come here specifically to thank the python that saved you?"
The short-haired man changed the subject.
They could understand why her parents had acted that way.
They had nothing to say about it.
It was a family matter.
Maybe once the girl's parents and friends realized they'd given themselves away, they'd quickly correct their behavior.
Then the girl wouldn't feel that nobody understood her.
That was between the girl, her parents, and her friends.
The girl's attention was immediately diverted.
"Mm."
She nodded.
"That day, I was so scared..."
The fear still lingered.
She'd let herself be taken away.
It hadn't even occurred to her to thank the red-eyed python.
Only after she got home and had calmed down...
did she remember the red-eyed python that had saved her.
It had helped her so much...
and she'd just left...
The girl wondered if she'd been a little ungrateful.
Of course,
that was a bit too strong a word.
But it got the point across.
The matter had become a thorn in the girl's heart.
She couldn't ignore