She wanted to ask him if he was really the same kid who was annoyingly stubborn about keeping a clean student record, but she was worried he'd go astray if she pushed him too hard. Therefore, she decided to just regard him as the rude model student instead.
She didn't care if he said she was being meddlesome. If it was him, she thought he'd listen to her story with the same indifference he always did, so she felt that it would be okay to talk about it.
"Back then, we were still on the poor side. But my parents still dressed me in strange clothes, you know? Because of that, they said the criminal mistook me for a child from a well-off family."
"That's stupid. The criminal, I mean."
Lily thought his curt reply was very in tune with his personality and chuckled. Seeing that she got this kind of response from him, Lily felt a lot more comfortable continuing her story.
