Just.
Hearing it like that, Sarah realized how ridiculous it was.
If someone could make her stay with her mother, even just one day? She would throw herself at that person, that entity, bowing until her knees buckled and her forehead bled.
"Thanks to you, she can go peacefully with laughter after spending three more years in this world," Hajin said gently, still wiping Sarah's tears with her calloused hand. "Thanks to you, I don't have to live being plagued with nightmares out of guilt."
Something that, unfortunately, Sarah was still afflicted with.
"It wasn't 'just', Lee Seul-ah," Hajin said firmly, even though he knew Sarah could no longer see it as such.
The stuttered breath that Sarah let out was enough proof.
