Her small hand clutched his in return.
"..."
Basically, without needing to say much, she proved her trust in him through her actions.
A group of people, holding torches, walked through the rainforest, shouting her name.
"Kami...! Kami...!"
Their voices echoed, but there was absolutely no response.
Soon, they had been searching for nearly an hour with not a single sign of activity, which slowly eroded their patience.
Someone couldn't help but say:
"In the end, it's all because of that man that Kami entered the rainforest."
The speaker was a man from Country D who had previously helped Kami.
The person he insinuated, there was no clearer.
"Exactly, in front of so many people, he claimed it was Kami who liked him and entered the rainforest to follow him. How could he, a grown man, have the nerve?"
The woman traveling with them said, then couldn't help but whisper to the person next to her:
"Maybe, he wanted to do something to Kami, and when she refused, he—"
