Having been in contact with Kelsi for a long time, these people were naturally close to her.

Hearing her question, everyone told her what had happened.

Kelsi looked at me with an unconcealable smile on her face, saying to me in the local dialect, "People in this town are clean and simple. How can you act the same way as you did in City Y? You are a discredit here."

"He gave me the key."

I defended myself.

Kelsi surely wasn't convinced as well, saying, "Even if you are lying, you have to make up convincing lies. Everyone knows that you and I are both kept outside here. He probably...