"Dad, you really won't get angry?" May followed her father out of Heath's Food Truck and looked at him a little nervously as she asked. After all, they had been in front of Heath earlier, so perhaps her dad had only held back his anger to spare her embarrassment in front of someone else. But now that May and Norman had left the food truck, her father could say whatever he wanted. May knew that these adults always had all sorts of strange, baffling ideas, and sometimes, even things adults actually said were not necessarily true or reliable.
So May was a little nervous. She was afraid her father would go back on his word once they were outside, just as her classmate had described.
[My dad said he'd buy me that latest Pikachu robot, but once we left the toy store, he wouldn't buy it anymore.] That was what her classmate Xiaopang had said, his face puffed up with anger. He had also said that his father had even forgotten about it afterward, but he had remembered it all along. Once he grew up and had money, he would buy a Pikachu robot to play with himself.
"Of course. Actually, I don't have any objection to you learning to cook. I just don't know whether you can handle the hard work. Being a chef isn't the same as being a Trainer." Norman smiled and ruffled his daughter's hair. He really had not been lying. He genuinely had no objection to his daughter May wanting to do something. If his darling daughter wanted to go, then she could go. It was a good thing, and there was nothing wrong with it. The only problem was probably that he was a little reluctant to let her go, and he was worried