"…Yeah. Um, thank you."
Even now, Naz was still afraid of being in front of others.
He often hated himself for it, but these people who still said they liked him as he was ended up saving him.
"I will say this, I only agreed because it is Naz."
"Ah…"
With just a moment of thought, it was obvious.
Qiong Xing would never so easily let go of the children who were more precious to him than anything else.
He would not casually entrust them to someone he disliked, even as a joke.
That meant Naz's existence was recognized far more deeply than he had realized.
"Y-yeah. Ah, um… thank you. Thank you, Qiong Xing."
The fact that he was accepted, even a little, by Qiong Xing made him feel proud above all else.
...
"…O-oh. That is a pretty big accident."
"Is that really something you need to say out loud?"
Qiong Xing thought that sometimes people really did say unnecessary things, and this was exactly one of those moments.
