True Love

Impossible. Absolutely impossible!

How could Akemi have broken up with him?

Akai Shuichi instinctively refused to accept it.

He even impulsively suspected that the recording was fake, fabricated by Lin Xinyi.

Yet the recording mentioned so many intimate details of their relationship that only he and Akemi knew. It was impossible for anyone other than Akemi to have fabricated it.

Unless Akemi was still alive, and she had recorded this breakup declaration for Lin Xinyi to bring and play for him.

But if that were true...

Wouldn't that make things even worse?

After a bout of agonizing thought, Akai Shuichi finally had no choice but to abandon those absurd ideas born of denial and face the cruel reality head-on—

"You got dumped."

Furuya Rei summed up his current situation in the most concise terms.

Officer Furuya had clearly not expected the contents of this recording to be so entertaining either.

It was a pity that they had failed to get any information about the organization from Miyano Akemi's final words.

But getting to watch such a spectacle still made the trip worthwhile.

"Miss Akemi made the right choice."

"Unfortunately, it was a little late."

Furuya Rei recalled the young woman's appearance and mannerisms, letting out a soft sigh of regret.

Thinking that she had most likely been completely swallowed by the darkness, he disliked the man before him even more—

No matter what difficulties Akai Shuichi might have faced subjectively, in Furuya Rei's eyes, he was objectively a scumbag who had used Akemi and then run away:

"The recording is over."

"Mr. Akai, are you satisfied now?"

Akai Shuichi's expression stiffened, and he remained silent.

Calling him utterly devastated would have been an exaggeration.

But his spirits had indeed sunk considerably. He no longer had the sharp edge he had