Tsubaki's eyes grew wide and blinking as the woman's mood suddenly shifted at her words. She even flinched a bit when she yelled, and the girl started to panic.

"A-ah, I'm sorry," she sputtered back, holding up her hands, palms out in attempted apology. "He must have been joking and I didn't understand."

That sort of thing happened with her sometimes. Tsubaki couldn't always tell when someone was teasing her, and it looked like this hand been the case.