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"But why can't I ride her?", Popee whiningly asked Papi as he followed him. He asked several times if he could use Paola to ride on.
Because I'm about to go into the city for a few hours, so Paola needs her sleep", Papi replied as he was putting something away. He was going to run some errands and maybe visit his daughter, Marifa, who was also Popee's little sister. She lived in the city but she sometimes visits the circus. Kedamono is sometimes afraid of her as she can be like her brother, but without the violence.
"It'll just be for a few minutes", Popee said as he tried to get him to say yes but it didn't work. There was this trick he wanted to try and wanted to use the elephant car for it. But Papi refused to let him.
"I said no, Popee", said Papi. "And that's final." Popee angrily responded by stomping his feet. Meanwhile, Kedamono was watching UFO Girls on TV when he heard the commotion between the father and son about riding Paola. 'Oh boy', he thought. Sometimes Popee and Papi would fight like that. Last time Popee was pissed off because Papi wouldn't give him a bigger saw for the box trick he was doing so he tried to throw a bomb at him, but luckily he dodged it.
Papi walked towards his tent. "Now I'm going to take a nap myself and then I'll go into the city, don't try to ride Paola while I'm napping, okay?" Popee rolled his eyes as he nodded slowly. "Good." As soon as Papi walked into his tent, Popee rubbed his hands together while smiling evilly.
"Time to go wake up that elephant", he said as he went to get an apple for her from one of the tents. Kedamono glanced over at Popee who now had an apple in his hand, and was heading to Paola to wake her up.