"If you like recording, then go ahead. It doesn't matter to me if you want to publicize this conversation or do something else with it. As long as you promise me the most basic request, we can continue our discussion.

"Now my second request is for you to delete or destroy all of Genhana High School's... No, all blackmail material you possess! This is to reflect on yourselves and forever stop you from getting involved in shady business."

A cold breeze blew over.

Rion and Kotomi wore grim expressions as an unreadable light flashed in their eyes.

Seiji stared at them wordlessly.

Silence... A long, dead silence followed.

Rion and Kotomi didn't even exchange glances as they began walking off in unison.

"You want to leave?"

Seiji was still staring at them.

"I simply gave you my price, and you're just going to leave without even haggling?"

The twins stopped at looked at him with a distant expression on their faces.

"You think that you can't accept my terms? I think you can. Rion Amami, Kotomi Amami, you should know that you're a pair of very fortunate girls. You were born into a well-off family, you have parents that love you, you have a nice brother, you have excellent appearances, and you're talented in various aspects...

"People praise you, idolize you, envy you, and seek to befriend you. You have just about everything people your age could want, so you should be happily living your lives under the bright sunshine.

"Yet... You prefer doing those shady deeds, forcing yourselves into the darkness! Why? Simply because those things are fun, they're interesting?"

Seiji took a deep look at those two beautiful faces. "You've never even once doubted yourselves. Is it... really that fun!? Perhaps from the very beginning, due to your naivety, you mistakenly enjoyed such an act.

"But today, starting right now—from this moment—you're no longer naïve. You've matured, so you should be able to see clearly and think clearly: these 'interests' of yours aren't really that fun at all!

"They're actually boring and pointless; there's never anything new about it, plus you have to take huge risks in order to 'enjoy' it. Perhaps one day you'll have to pay a painful price you can't handle!

"You've already been tightly bound by darkness of your own creation... Haven't you realized this yet? Has this thought never even come into your heads!?"

Seiji made a wholehearted attempt to convince the twins that their actions were wrong.

At first, he never even considered it.

A few minutes ago.

When Seiji hung up Hoshi's cell phone, his heart was filled with rage and all he had in mind was how to ruin these twin sisters' lives.

Perhaps it wasn't completely their own fault that they became like this, but every time he thought back to the pitiful way Hoshi died in the previous timeline, he felt zero pity for them.

However...

"Senpai... I'm sorry..."

"Hoshi? Why are you apologizing?"

Seiji was wondering why Hoshi Amami was slowly kneeling to him.

"What are you doing?"

"Senpai... I... I know, this request is unreasonable... It will definitely give you a hard time..."

Tears dripped down Hoshi's face as he kowtowed to Seiji.

"But... please, I still want to make a request—don't... don't completely destroy my sisters!"

His voice was a hoarse, pained sound which sounded as if he'd squeezed it out of his soul.

Seiji slowly furrowed his brows.

"Hoshi... You..."

His tears had accumulated into a pool on the floor around Hoshi's knees.

"Being... abused... by my sisters... it was painful, and I had times when I hated them to death... But... but... no matter what, no matter what they did to me, or how much I cursed them at the time...

"They're still... my sisters that I grew up together with... my family... my sisters... Ahh!!"

Seiji heard the painful sound of crying.

He was moved by the complex, murky, yet deep emotions contained within Hoshi's crying.

The other students on the rooftop noticed the commotion and were beginning to look in their direction.

"It's okay to get up, Hoshi." Seiji clasped his arm with a firm hand and helped Hoshi rise.

"Senpai... I'm sorry... I'm sorry..." Hoshi had a tearful face as he continued to apologize repeatedly.

He asked his senpai for help, yet he'd made such a difficult request. He knew how unreasonable he was being.

But that was how he felt.

Even if he had been abused extensively and treated as a puppy and a plaything.

He still considered Rion and Kotomi as his family.

"You... you're such an idiot..."

Seiji let loose a deep sigh as he watched his junior.

If any other person had requested mercy for Rion and Kotomi Amami, he wouldn't be moved. The person currently in front of him was the only one who could change his mind.

'Hoshi Amami... only you have the right to give your twin sisters a chance.'

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