“Hey, are you alone as well?”
“Huh?”
Sasha turned around and noticed there was a little girl, who was around the age of seven or eight, seated behind her.
The seemingly pitiable little girl looked at Sasha with an aggrieved look.
Sasha turned around and looked elsewhere to avoid eye contact with the little girl as she couldn’t stand having another equally pathetic figure next to her.
“N-No!”
“You don’t have to lie since there’s no way you’re here without others when you’re injured if you’re not alone.”
Sasha gaped at the little girl’s remark and thought the little girl was right. She wouldn’t be there on her own without others if others truly cared about her.
I’m in the middle of nowhere without anyone to look after me when I have just gone through a minor accident and injured myself!
I guess Mr. Will is right! No one cares about me! It seems like I’m not as important as a trivial deal!
She felt a prickling sensation behind her eyes. A short while later, torrents of grief started streaming down her cheeks.
“H-Hey—”
“Yes! You’re right! No one cares about me! That’s precisely the reason I’m here without anyone else!”
Sasha finally let loose of her emotions. Sitting next to the little girl, she continued wailing since she couldn’t pull herself together anymore.
The last straw had finally broken the camel’s back.
The little girl was startled by Sasha’s response since it was never her intention to bring the woman next to her to tears.
“It’s not a big deal, isn’t it? If no one cares about us, we’ll just have to take good care of ourselves!”
“What?” Sasha sniffled and looked at the little girl in the eyes.
The little girl advised, “We’ll just put ourselves ahead of others! See! I bought myself all kinds of snacks since they had the guts to leave me alone!”
Sasha continued weeping because of the things the little girl had gone through.
When Sebastian reached the duo, he saw the duo savoring ice cream on the bench next to one another when they were supposed to stay away from those during winter.
“Are you feeling better?”
“Nah, what about you?”
“Nah, shall we get another ice cream?”
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