Smiley face

In the office, it was kind of quiet and the teachers were talking about something I couldn’t understand. Monma-Sensei was sitting at his desk and I hadn’t really talked to him yet that morning. He looked over at me and I gave a slight wave with a big smile, which he returned with a sort of cringe as if to say, “Yeah… I can’t smile right now.” He explained to me in broken English that the teachers were talking about how seven people who were killed yesterday around lunchtime by some guy. I couldn’t tell if Monma-Sensei was trying to tell me that the guy had a knife, or if her drove into something or everyone. But anyway, I was less smiley after that. He set me straight.