You just sighed!"
"eh...."
"I came and excitedly showed you, don't you forget, you returned a sigh!"
"No, that's just..."
"It was a sigh that said, 'He finally got this far.' Oh how you wounded me!"
With wide eyes, Roxy bit her lower lip.
It's inconceivable, she wouldn't sigh like that.
My Roxy?
That Roxy who gave me a compliment every time I was successful in something?
"That's how it was! I adored you!
You were the only one in all of Shirone who accepted me!
So I was trying so hard to get your attention!
But it was useless!
You just absentmindedly treated me with apathy!
You corresponded with a man whom I did not know!
It was ludicrous!
Even though I made such an effort I wasn't recognized. Why did you keep telling me to do my best?
Then when I stopped putting in the effort, you just abandoned me unceremoniously!
You just left the country as if to say, that's enough!"
Pax pulled the hair from his head.
Remembering that time, his eyes are bloodshot, tears are pooling in his eyes.
"So, that is... excuse me, I'm sorry... back then I was..."
"Shut up! I do not want to hear your excuses!"
Roxy kept silent.
In her expression, deep regret was visible.
The thing called effort is something that you should be doing for your own sake.
But it isn't my place to make that kind of sermon.
I have always been recognized, at least since I came to this world.
All my effort returned results.
Even when my efforts proved futile, at those times people still recognized me.
So, I'm not qualified to preach to Pax.