"After all, you're still growing."
Still growing...
Hearing those words made Onigawara Rin feel even more like crying.
She wasn't that young anymore!
"Tell me about it!"
Just then.
An indignant voice came from nearby.
There was Hanabishi Warabi.
She had been quietly keeping a low profile off to the side, but now she was struggling to cling to the rocks at the edge of the pool, trying to look less like an elementary schooler playing in the water.
Her long golden hair, soaked through, clung to her cheeks, making her baby face look even younger.
On top of that, she already had a petite frame.
In this bath, built to an adult's depth, she would probably struggle even to breathe unless she stood on tiptoe.
"They made this pool way too deep!"
"Are they deliberately trying to keep people from enjoying a bath?!"
Hanabishi Warabi complained as she splashed about.
"Oh!"
Tsubaki turned around and saw Hanabishi Warabi "struggling" in the water, and her face immediately took on the kindly smile of someone spotting a neighbor's child.
"Sorry, sorry."
"I forgot we had a little kid here."
"Come on, let your big sister carry you."
"It's deep here. Go play in the shallow end, and be careful not to choke on the water."
With that.
Tsubaki actually reached out to scoop her up, looking as though she truly considered Hanabishi Warabi a small child.
"?!"
Hearing that, Hanabishi Warabi froze for a moment.
Then.
The veins on her baby-faced forehead immediately began throbbing, and her face turned a deep, purplish red.
"..."
By now.
Having witnessed this, Onigawara Rin, Kikakujō Mary, and the others.
Could already predict what would happen next.
Sure enough.
The next second.
Splash!!
"Who's a little kid?!"
"I'm seventeen! Seventeen!"
Hanabishi Warabi instantly bristled, glaring