"Brother, look at this too! Doesn't this hat really suit me?" Monna asked her brother. While putting on a cute big hat that she had a crush on while walking around the market.
The hat might be funny. But the hat was too big for her. So that several times, the hat continued to sink Cattarina's small face.
"Look, there! Even your face was eaten by the hat. How could you still find it funny? Return the item to its origin! Find something that suits you. And don't make jokes!" Asraff acted cold. And Monna immediately frowned.
"I didn't know that hat would be that big. I just wanted to try it because it looked cute. If it was not funny, that's fine .." Monna put back the big hat she had taken earlier and looked at the others.
Her eyes were fixed on a cute flower-shaped pin that looked pretty.
"Excuse me, may I know how much this is?" Monna asked the clothespin seller.
"This is 10Don, miss. Very nice and pretty if you wear it?" The seller replied very sweetly and kindly.
Monna smiled and spend her money.
The Don was the currency in Gerald's land. Even though she felt unfamiliar with the name, Monna still felt that it was familiar. Sometimes she was also confused by the contents of her brain. Everything seemed to be divided by several opinions and thoughts that were not in harmony.
"I'm always pretty when I wearing anything. Not unless it's a worn hairpin. But because of your good intentions that have praised me, I will buy some of your other hairpins for collection."
Hearing that Monna was about to buy some more pins, the seller immediately felt delighted.
"Wow !! Thank you, Miss. Thanks. I hope you always get blessings," said the seller, which made Monna happy to hear it.
Instead, Asraff was whispering something.
"Catty, are you not wrong? You just bought a cheap looking bag of hairpins on the market! Aren't you usually never attracted to cheap things?" Asraff deliberately lowered the volume of his voice as low as possible, so that apart from Cattarina no one else could hear him.
Cattarina responded casually.
"Brother, isn't it the cheaper than better? That means we would save more and more money," said Monna in a neutral tone. Was accidentally brought up and accidentally scaled down too.
After paying, Monna immediately walked off to another hawker shop that caught her eye. After walking around for a long time, Monna was finally satisfied and asked Asraff, her brother, to treat her to a meal because her stomach was very hungry.
The two stopped at one of the food stalls in the market. The shop served several menus that were foreign to them.
Asraff, who usually would take Cattarina to a delicious and expensive restaurant, suddenly changed his direction. Eating at one of the stalls that she firmly believed in, Cattarina-his sister, had never eaten there in her entire life.
But what did he expect from Cattarina's sudden populist attitude? Asraff seems to have got a blank lottery!
Not a single frown or protest, not even an unpleasant expression, was even displayed by his younger sister. Cattarina ate in a small tavern with a happy and peaceful feeling.
Asraff even furrowed his eyebrows repeatedly in disbelief, seeing Cattarina's unusual change in attitude.
"Aren't you allergic to something dirty and unhygienic?" Asraff voiced his disturbing thoughts.
"What? Brother said what?" asked Monna.
Since the food stalls was quite busy and noisy, Cattarina couldn't really hear what Asraff was saying. Especially now that she was enjoying a bowl of soup that aroused her taste. All the voices that were bothering her sounded empty.
"Haven't you never liked to eat at the tavern?" asked Asraff again curiously.
Monna stopped eating for a moment. Then think and nod. If she were the real Cattarina, of course she wouldn't like having to eat at this place because it was very busy and noisy tavern. But now she was Cattarina Monna. Cattarina and Monna who become one.
"You're right, Bro. I never like having to eat in a crowded and .. dirty place?" Monna looked around before finally mentioning her last words which are certainly not polite to people.
"But take it easy. It wasn't dirty, really. It was just not very clean. But quite safe for consumption. Are you not eating? This is delicious you know. Very delicious! Even better than the soup last time we ate at the restaurant opposite. Try it! You will definitely not regret it," Monna offered her brother to eat. Asraff wouldn't help but obey.
Just one bite. Asraff's eyes lit up immediately.
"Heh? You are right! This is much tastier than what I imagined?" said Asraf incredulously.
"Have you eaten here before?" asked Asraff suspiciously.
"How could I ever eaten here? If only you dared to invite me to come here. If it wasn't for wanting to prank your sister, you wouldn't have invited me here, right?" Monna throws a sharp attack on the target.
Asraff chuckled in embarrassment that his plan had been discovered. He had deliberately taken Cattarina to the place she rarely wanted to visit. But who would have thought, Cattarina actually enjoyed being here. More than he still couldn't feel comfortable.
Monna laughed in response to her cute brother's weirdness. Today will clearly go down as a different history for Cattarina's life. Because the Cattarina in front of Asraff this time was Cattarina Monna, who once felt how hard life was.
Monna, who had been left behind by her parents, inevitably had to live by fighting for herself to survive. Just wandering around the market and eating at the little tavern that the real Cattarina craves was definitely not a big deal for Monna.
She even used to eat only instant noodles ( fast food most loved and tastiest in the world, but also the cheapest and most poisonous in the world Monna in the past ) three times a day. Or even, she never ate at all for 3 days.
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