After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1073

A/N: I’m sorry, I didn’t intend this to get so long xD. We’ll temporarily move on from Kimmy after next chap.

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"What was your mother like, Miss Kimmy?"

This made her pause. She remembered her own childhood, how lonely it actually was, and how… absent her parents were.

She grew up to her twenties, but the number of times she had at least one parent on her birthday could be counted on one hand.

It was why she was so obsessed with her idols. She saw them as lovers who would send their smiles and affection through the screen, through the posters, or even through the radio.

Through their posts and ads, they would always say ’I love you’ or ’I want to see you (in my concert)’ and she would consume that so badly. However, inside, she knew she still felt empty—otherwise, her obsessions wouldn’t go so far.

She touched her stomach. She knew how lonely it was, so she would never do the same to her child.

It was not a surprise that she didn’t have a good impression of mothers who were only sources of heartbreak and insecurity to her child.

Her eyes ended up somewhere at the back of the audience and saw a new face there.

Yelena. Miss Juliet mentioned her arrival during her session the previous day. Apparently, there was a new ’hostage’ taken in and it happened to be another one of Patte’s victims.

Juliet didn’t actually ask her to do anything. After all, she was also going through her own tribulations. The woman probably didn’t want to put the burden on her.

However, since they were both sent here, in the orphanage—filled with children who had lost all their known relatives—it was inevitable to cross paths.

However, at the same time, she couldn’t hate Yelena nor could she blame her for how she reacted. After all, she understood the aborigine’s feelings—she understood it too well.

In fact, when Kimmy found out she was pregnant, her first reaction was to terminate the pregnancy—and then take her own life. At the time, it felt like a monster was growing inside her and she wanted to kill it so badly.

However, she remembered what someone important told her back then.

Growing up, even without her parents, Kimmy wasn’t entirely lonely. There was still someone she treated as family: Her Nana.

It was her nanny who took care of her since she was a baby, all the way until her death.

Kimmy used to cry a lot whenever she missed her parents. She was so confused and bitter—why were they never there? Did they not love her? Did they dislike her so much they couldn’t stay in the same space?!

The thoughts took a toll on her self-esteem, and it was here that her Nana told her these words.

"Every life was born to this world for a reason, and every child—every innocent soul—deserves a taste of love. If those who should be giving it are not doing so, then it is them who is wrong—it is only them who miss on good things. The good things should not suffer for their blindness."