"What's bothering you?" Kuwabara's dad asked not long after picking Kuwabara up from Sawamura's house later that afternoon.
Haltingly, Kuwabara told him what had happened earlier, about how he'd saved that girl, and then how she'd reacted to him.
When Kuwabara finished, his dad stopped walking and hugged him tightly. "I'm proud of you, Kazuma," he said smiling. "You did the right thing, saving that girl."
"But she was scared of me!" Kuwabara protested.
"Sometimes that happens," his dad said. "Some people are scared of fighters, even when that person is fighting to protect them."
"That doesn't make sense!" Kuwabara complained.
His dad ruffled his hair. "Most of life doesn't."
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