Difficult to Refuse

"I'm sorry, but I'm not interested in you anymore."

"Just seeing your face makes me sick."

Takagi's neurotic, heartfelt confession was touching, but in the blink of an eye, he was hit with a double blow.

Although Kanna Kisaragi was the injured one, she sounded far better off. She mocked him while smiling with an air of noble aloofness.

"You're lying to yourself. You felt it, didn't you? What I showed you just now..."

Takagi seemed completely unwilling to accept that, and the infatuation on his face had not faded in the slightest.

"They only treat you like a plaything, including Mr. Dancy."

Fu Qian, who had chosen to watch from the stairwell, was surprisingly the first person Takagi noticed.

"They'll only hurt you. They've never appreciated your charms. Only I... I'll save you. No, you'll save yourself... I'm just your most loyal tool, your only tool... All I need is a little comfort from you..."

By the end of Takagi's speech, his logic had clearly gone off the rails.

"If you like that hand, you can keep it."

Chie Kisaragi had recovered from her shock by now and was helping Kanna untie the ropes around her.

Takagi had clearly tied them very tightly, and Chie was struggling.

Kanna didn't even glance at her. She simply hit Takagi with another verbal blow.

"Just stay out of my sight from now on."

"No... that's impossible... We're already inseparable..."

Takagi's voice grew fainter and fainter.

"Inseparable—"

The next moment, he suddenly sprang into action and did something shocking.

He opened his mouth wide and stuffed Kanna's severed hand, which had already lost its luster, inside. He chewed hard, trying to swallow it.

From his expression, swallowing was clearly painful, yet he didn't hesitate. Using both hand and mouth, he doggedly forced it