Chapter 6004: What Animal?
"What else?"
Though she complained, the ponytailed girl still came closer.
"...Let's apologize together."
The short-haired girl thought for a moment, then said.
Ponytailed girl:...
She rolled her eyes dramatically.
But she didn't refuse.
"Come on."
"I'll count to three."
The short-haired girl said.
"One, two—"
"No."
The child finally spoke.
Her heart leaped with joy.
She immediately continued, "You don't need to apologize to me."
"Why are you apologizing to me?"
This made no sense.
Those two idiots.
"Then why were you crying?"
The short-haired girl froze for a moment, then asked, "Wasn't it because of what Nini said?"
She'd complained that the child couldn't tell them anything, yet still wanted them to come along...
Hadn't the child cried because of those complaints?
Ponytailed girl:...
How had it turned into being all her fault again?
She realized the short-haired girl was incredibly sly!
Hmph!
"No."
The child spoke again.
This time, her voice came out much more smoothly.
The child smiled bitterly.
"No."
"Nini was right."
"It was my fault."
"I'm sorry."
The child lowered her eyes.
She was the one who should apologize.
The ponytailed girl looked a little uncomfortable.
"I was just saying it offhand."
"...Don't take it seriously."
The ponytailed girl said stiffly.
The child shook her head slightly.
She had stopped crying, but her eyes and nose were still red.
Her face was also streaked with smudges from wiping at it.
"Then why were you crying?"
The short-haired girl didn't understand why the child had cried.
Especially since it had come out of nowhere.
It had startled her.
Why had she cried...
The child looked up at the orange tree.
Actually, she wasn't quite sure herself.
"Because you didn't