diff --git a/src/listener.ts b/src/listener.ts
index 8e92635..7f6e4c4 100644
--- a/src/listener.ts
+++ b/src/listener.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import {
   toRequestError,
 } from './request'
 import { cacheKey, getInternalBody, Response as LightweightResponse } from './response'
+import type { InternalCache } from './response'
 import type { CustomErrorHandler, FetchCallback, HttpBindings } from './types'
 import { writeFromReadableStream, buildOutgoingHttpHeaders } from './utils'
 import { X_ALREADY_SENT } from './utils/response/constants'
@@ -49,7 +50,10 @@ const responseViaCache = (
   outgoing: ServerResponse | Http2ServerResponse
 ): undefined | Promise<undefined | void> => {
   // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
-  const [status, body, header] = (res as any)[cacheKey]
+  let [status, body, header] = (res as any)[cacheKey] as InternalCache
+  if (header instanceof Headers) {
+    header = buildOutgoingHttpHeaders(header)
+  }
   if (typeof body === 'string') {
     header['Content-Length'] = Buffer.byteLength(body)
     outgoing.writeHead(status, header)
@@ -89,8 +93,7 @@ const responseViaResponseObject = async (
 
   const resHeaderRecord: OutgoingHttpHeaders = buildOutgoingHttpHeaders(res.headers)
 
-  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
-  const internalBody = getInternalBody(res as any)
+  const internalBody = getInternalBody(res as Response)
   if (internalBody) {
     const { length, source, stream } = internalBody
     if (source instanceof Uint8Array && source.byteLength !== length) {
diff --git a/src/response.ts b/src/response.ts
index cbd629c..fe727ed 100644
--- a/src/response.ts
+++ b/src/response.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 // Define lightweight pseudo Response class and replace global.Response with it.
 
 import type { OutgoingHttpHeaders } from 'node:http'
-import { buildOutgoingHttpHeaders } from './utils'
 import { getResponseState } from './utils/internal'
 import type { InternalBody } from './utils/internal'
 
@@ -10,17 +9,28 @@ const responseCache = Symbol('responseCache')
 const getResponseCache = Symbol('getResponseCache')
 export const cacheKey = Symbol('cache')
 
+export type InternalCache = [
+  number,
+  string | ReadableStream,
+  Record<string, string> | Headers | OutgoingHttpHeaders,
+]
+interface LiteResponse {
+  [responseCache]?: globalThis.Response
+  [cacheKey]?: InternalCache
+}
+
 export const GlobalResponse = global.Response
 export class Response {
   #body?: BodyInit | null
   #init?: ResponseInit;
 
   [getResponseCache](): globalThis.Response {
-    delete (this as any)[cacheKey]
-    return ((this as any)[responseCache] ||= new GlobalResponse(this.#body, this.#init))
+    delete (this as LiteResponse)[cacheKey]
+    return ((this as LiteResponse)[responseCache] ||= new GlobalResponse(this.#body, this.#init))
   }
 
   constructor(body?: BodyInit | null, init?: ResponseInit) {
+    let headers: HeadersInit
     this.#body = body
     if (init instanceof Response) {
       const cachedGlobalResponse = (init as any)[responseCache]
@@ -31,36 +41,43 @@ export class Response {
         return
       } else {
         this.#init = init.#init
+        // clone headers to avoid sharing the same object between parent and child
+        headers = new Headers((init.#init as ResponseInit).headers)
       }
     } else {
       this.#init = init
     }
 
     if (typeof body === 'string' || typeof (body as ReadableStream)?.getReader !== 'undefined') {
-      let headers = (init?.headers || { 'content-type': 'text/plain; charset=UTF-8' }) as
-        | Record<string, string>
-        | Headers
-        | OutgoingHttpHeaders
-      if (headers instanceof Headers) {
-        headers = buildOutgoingHttpHeaders(headers)
-      }
-
+      headers ||= init?.headers || { 'content-type': 'text/plain; charset=UTF-8' }
       ;(this as any)[cacheKey] = [init?.status || 200, body, headers]
     }
   }
+
+  get headers(): Headers {
+    const cache = (this as LiteResponse)[cacheKey] as InternalCache
+    if (cache) {
+      if (!(cache[2] instanceof Headers)) {
+        cache[2] = new Headers(cache[2] as HeadersInit)
+      }
+      return cache[2]
+    }
+    return this[getResponseCache]().headers
+  }
+
+  get status() {
+    return (
+      ((this as LiteResponse)[cacheKey] as InternalCache | undefined)?.[0] ??
+      this[getResponseCache]().status
+    )
+  }
+
+  get ok() {
+    const status = this.status
+    return status >= 200 && status < 300
+  }
 }
-;[
-  'body',
-  'bodyUsed',
-  'headers',
-  'ok',
-  'redirected',
-  'status',
-  'statusText',
-  'trailers',
-  'type',
-  'url',
-].forEach((k) => {
+;['body', 'bodyUsed', 'redirected', 'statusText', 'trailers', 'type', 'url'].forEach((k) => {
   Object.defineProperty(Response.prototype, k, {
     get() {
       return this[getResponseCache]()[k]