"..." Giovanni froze for a moment. Before he could react, Sabrina handed him the scarf she was holding and looked at him calmly. But Giovanni, whose eyesight was good, still noticed that her ears were a little red. He knew this was a sign that his subordinate was very shy, and it caught him somewhat off guard. He knew how Sabrina felt, and he had always avoided her feelings in his own way. But now he realized that he seemingly could not avoid them anymore, because Sabrina stood before him and had said those words, "I love you," very loudly. They had been so loud that unless he was deaf, there was absolutely no way he could have missed them. And was Giovanni deaf? Of course not, so he had heard her.
Giovanni did not know what he should say. To be honest, he had always known how Sabrina felt and what she was thinking, but he had his own reasons, so he had never accepted her feelings. And because of Sabrina's strength, he could only keep dragging things out like this. It made him feel that he was perhaps behaving rather badly. After all, this was a girl's resolve, one she had struggled to muster, yet he had kept running away, kept avoiding her feelings. For a moment, Giovanni did not know what to do. And now that Sabrina had come to his door, he knew that he seemingly had to give her an answer.
There was a railway beside the residential complex, and at that moment, a train was speeding along it. Dappled sunset shone through the gaps in the train onto Sabrina's face. Her clear eyes gazed firmly at Giovanni, without the slightest intention of backing down.
Giovanni looked at Sabrina before him. So much time had