Chapter 69

Honestly.

If Mom hadn't started crying, I might have cried, too.

I hadn't known Hee-ju would say so much.

It was also the first time I'd ever received such heartfelt praise from someone else.

And in a setting like this, no less.

“……”

Hearing Hee-ju praise me like that...

made me feel like I really was an impressive person,

and I felt strangely moved, as if she were reassuring me that all the time I'd spent up until now hadn't been wasted.

And to think she called me her light...