Ruin

For Amamiya Ren and Sakamoto Ryuji, what had happened before their eyes was nothing short of a nightmare. They stared blankly as the ambulance arrived and the medical workers carried Kitagawa Yusuke's body into it, while they were taken to the Police Station to be questioned. Although Kitagawa Yusuke's death looked extremely bizarre, all the evidence proved that he had indeed committed suicide.

According to the police's examination, he had gouged out his own eyes three days earlier and then ground them up to make paint...

As for why he had done it...

"We already told you, we don't know anything!"

Sakamoto Ryuji slammed his fist onto the tabletop and glared angrily at the police officer sitting across from him, but the latter paid no attention to his roar.

"Oh? Is that so? Then tell me, why did you go to his house?"

"We're friends. He didn't answer his phone, so we went to check on him. What's wrong with that? Is it wrong for us to worry about a friend?"

"But the problem is, he died after you went there."

The police officer tossed the documents in his hand onto the table.

"Although the preliminary examination of the scene indicates that he took a paintbrush and stabbed it through his own eye socket, and the paintbrush only bears his fingerprints, we suspect that the two of you worked together to kill him."

"That's complete nonsense!"

At this, Sakamoto Ryuji immediately leaped to his feet.

"Why would we kill him? We were friends! Why would I attack my own friend?"

"Oh? Is that so? But according to our investigation, you tried to assault Takami Anne this morning, didn't you? Every student present at the time can testify that you wanted to kill her. You've been classmates since middle school, haven't