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"Don't jump!" Dark-skinned guy had also seen what was happening on the roof. On one hand, he was afraid the murderer might kill him in a frenzy; on the other, he felt this person was genuinely pitiful. "At worst, you'll go to Prison! You've already had your revenge, and you're only seventeen or eighteen—your life is still long... Oh, right, this ends here. You're not allowed to go after my Kiwako again!"
Matsuzaki Masahiko: "...Huh?"
The real fiancé's faint question failed to draw anyone's attention.
On the rooftop, Kariya Hayato lowered his head. He stood where Tsukishima Fuyuko had once stood, looking down at the view she had once seen. The people below had become tiny; above him stretched the vast sea and sky. It truly was the kind of view that could make one forget all their troubles.
Suzuki Sonoko sensed that something was wrong. "Don't jump! Um, look—the building is only four stories high, and the ground below is all wet mud. Even if you jump, you definitely won't die from the fall. Wouldn't that be embarrassing? Why not come down first? We can all talk it over. There must be another way for this to end..."
Perhaps because he had never heard that kind of persuasion before, Kariya Hayato's motion of gazing up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle paused slightly.
But he was clearly a resolute man. He soon ignored the bizarre interruption and continued talking about himself:
"I truly envy people like you, who can forgive anytime and anywhere. Unfortunately, I can neither forgive others nor forgive myself. To cover up the evidence, I killed a completely innocent person... My heart has already taken the form of a 'Phantom,' gradually becoming hideous beyond recognition. Let all sin end with me."
After saying that,