Chapter 83 - 81. Bittersweet and Spicy (2)
"Pretty Mister!"
It was a familiar voice of a familiar little girl, the one who sat beside Zein during the bus raid to the Guide Center. He looked at the bright-eyed little girl and smiled unconsciously. "Hello, candy fairy," he still had two of the candy she gave him left.
"Yaay, you remember me!" the girl jumped in place joyfully, swaying their connected hand together.
"Didn’t know you had a kid, Zein," Bassena popped his head behind the guide suddenly, circling his arm around the older’s shoulder, looking at the little girl with a smile.
Zein smacked the esper’s mouth lightly, at the same time with a voice calling out to the little girl. "Hey, you can’t go around grabbing strangers like that!"
It was an older boy, twelve or thirteen perhaps, grabbing the little girl’s other hand and trying to pull her away from the two adult strangers. But the little girl rebelled and scooted closer to Zein, frowning. "But he’s not a stranger! He’s that pretty mister I told you about, the one that sits beside me on the bus!"
"But you still can’t just go and grabbed his hand like that, it’s rude!"
The little girl gasped, and then looked up at Zein, which hand she still held. "Am...am I being rude to you Mister? I’m sorry..."
"It’s alright," Zein said, using his softest tone that got Bassena a bit stunned. "But it’s true that you shouldn’t just grab someone you just met. I might not be a good guy."
"But I know you’re a kind man!" the little girl was adamant, responding while clenching her fist.
"But it also might not be me," Zein replied steadily, with a friendly but firm tone that he used for scolding the twins in the past. "What if you got the wrong guy?"