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¬ FASHIRE 

Her words left me in an unsettled state. 

She was mad at me, wasn't she? 

Was it when I had tripped her at the gate? I hadn't exactly hurt her. That wouldn't even be enough to hurt a human, and neither was I planning to.

Maybe I shouldn't have done that, but why was she angry now? 

'I am tired of you!' 

She had looked very serious… My nose subtly wrinkled in irritation. 

And she had called me a child?! 

I was many things but immaturity was not one of them. Just because I acted on my emotions once in a while did not mean I did that all the time.

A muscle I'm my jaw twitched. What was I even thinking, and what did it matter to me what she thought of me in the first place? 

And to think she'd just grab Iruo and forbid me from following—

"It seems the rumours were wrong about you for your pet to behave in such a manner right in the presence of others," the Afrit ambassador spoke up again.