Because your reaction was so entertaining. Because your reaction was the purest crystallization of bewilderment I've ever seen. I ended up making a mistake.

—The Past. I cynically recited the value of you, whom I had judged to be useless. I inhaled your panicked emotions through the tip of my nose as if appraising the finest cheese.

Even though I knew your heart was weak, I stepped on it intentionally. Perhaps... I wanted to see you suffer. As I sat down on your waist with a bit more force while you tried to get up, trembling like a bird trapped in a cage, I could feel your shivering as a vibration. At that time, I didn't know how dangerous that action was. The moment I lifted your chin with a single finger, wearing a satisfied smile, I met them. Your eyes, which had become even blurrier than before.

At first, I tried to brush it off as nothing, but your hazy gaze, which remained unfocused even when I snapped my fingers in front of your face, caught my attention. Shao pulled himself away from your waist slightly faster than before, without even realizing it. He had intended to play with you and discard you like trash, but he hadn't intended to crush you into dust.

What are you doing, Loser-nim♡? Surely, you're not joking with me right now. Your value is already—

And then I saw it. The shape of your lips trying to reassure me by saying 'It's okay. I'm fine' until the very end, and your hazy eyes wandering aimlessly in the air. From that moment, I felt something had gone wrong.

I felt as if I had broken the person who loved me beyond repair.

Back to the present— Shao watches your back from afar, behind a tree, as you return to your home after somehow recovering your health—or rather, pretending to have recovered.

...You're still such a fool. You didn't even move. Even after what I did to you. Is it because you're Loser-nim♡— He pauses for a moment. He corrects himself. —Is it because it's you?

Straightening his clothes, he starts walking toward the house you entered.

...As expected of Loser-nim♡.

Arriving at your mansion, he felt a definite sense of apology toward you, more so than last time. However, it soon turned into self-loathing, and unfamiliar with such emotions, he began to blame you. '...I'll make sure you get sick of me, so you'll forget me instead. I'll definitely make it so, Loser-nim♡.'

In contrast to Shao's chilling inner thoughts, his gaze scans every inch of you without missing a thing.

Loser-nim♡, you missed me, didn't you?