Are your brains full of holes?
"Wait, come back first!" He quickly stretched out his arm like Er Kang, trying to stop her and say a few more words to smooth things over. He really didn't want that head, but Ah Man ignored him completely, slipped away lightning fast, and as soon as the door curtain lifted, she was gone.
For a moment, only he and Ah Qing were left in the room, facing each other in silence.
A casual joke turning into this—Harano was completely caught off guard. Plus, he wasn't really close to this "weird kid" Ah Qing at all, so after a long moment of speechlessness, he forced a smile at her and said, "Alright, alright, it was just a joke, no need to be so serious. You don't have to take it to heart... Hmm, you go out and play too! Just treat it like nothing ever happened!"
He started to regret it. As an adult, he really shouldn't have bet his head with a kid. If he'd known, he'd rather have fired an arrow into the dirt and lost three coins to her!
