Chapter 108: Heiren’s anger
"Alhai’s favorite book?" Heiren’s eyebrows furrowed in confusion, "What are you going to do?"
"I’m going to buy him his favorite book. Isn’t that obvious?" Coco stated, tilting her head to the side as she leaned her chin on her palm.
"Coco.." Zaque murmured as he stared at her with worry, "A book can cost a lot. I know that you want to make up with Alhai, but you don’t have to spend a lot of money on us—"
"No, no, no.." Heiren cut Zaque off for the nth time that day and smiled mischievously to Coco with a malicious glint in his eyes, the previous timid looking mediator nowhere to be found.
"Why should we tell you? What do we get from telling you something private about our friend? Would it be worth it to trade his trust to a measly book?" Heiren asked Coco, shooting questions after questions, his tone almost condescending.
It was a good thing that the garden fairy was focusing on her fair share of sandwiches, that Coco pinched out of her sandwich, and her little tea cup because if she wasn’t, she would have been fuming by now.
"Heiren." Zaque called out, an underlying warning in his tone.
"You have to tell me because I heard that a particular bookstore in the next town will be having a discount sale." Coco said, lying through her teeth as she smiled to the mediators, "I also heard that the measly book you called was the one Alhai might be most fond of in this world."
Heiren flinched, making Coco smile wider.