"…it'd be because he'd accept me, no matter what I become."
The moment Katarina said it aloud, the faint haze clouding her heart finally cleared. The uncertainty lingering deep inside her seemed to settle into place, and she understood it with absolute clarity.
'Yes… that's exactly it.'
Over the course of the time they had spent together, she had crossed countless boundaries around him. Boundaries most people would never even dream of allowing someone else to cross.
She had seen his memories, his thoughts, the deepest parts of him that should have remained private and sacred. Things she had slowly become accustomed to witnessing without hesitation.
And strangely enough, in front of him, she always felt as though she could do whatever she wanted.
'But it's not only that.'
To her, Sai represented a kind of freedom she could never have imagined before meeting him.
