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"No bad messages and no photos of boobs so... that's reassuring at least."

Ren waited, silently seething. Most of the messages would be from Yui or Syo, with a few from Akio. He didn’t really message anymore else regularly.

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Yui went through his phone. What was she going to find?

Ren took out his phone, unlocked it and thrust it at her.

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"Wait!" Yui shouted suddenly. "I have an idea! Show me your phone! If you were truly cheating, you'd have messages on your phone! Show me!"

“If you want the truth,” Ren snapped, looking away, “I’m trying not to break down over here,”

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"I mean, that," she replied. "And that weird pause where you cleared your throat just now was a little weird."

“Why-“ Ren cleared his throat, “Why, all of a sudden, would you stop believing in me? One conversation with her? That’s all it took?”

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"I'm so confused!" Yui shouted. "I don't know what to believe anymore!"

“You… didn’t? It wasn’t something I was trying to hide. It was long before you and I got together; I didn’t cheat if that’s what your thinking,”

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"I... didn't know that," Yui said.

“Well, yeah, you knew that. Ages ago, before we were together,”

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"Answer me something," Yui said. "Did you have sex with Tomochika?"

“I don’t know how she knows that, but nobody’s forcing you to marry me…”

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"Also she was right when she said I don't want to marry you," she continued. "It makes me wonder, what else was she right about?"

Ren stared at her. What the hell was going on? He already explained why he didn’t trust the letters. He stared at necklace he gave her for a moment, then looked her in the eyes again, “Are you… serious?”

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"Well, I mean, you just wanting to throw away Miruki's letters made me realize that Hiromi was right," Yui explained. "You really don't know how to treat girls."

“W-what?!”

Ren whirled around to face Yui, “What did you just say?!”

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"You can have him," Yui said.

"Excuse me?!" Well, that was unexpected!

Ren sighed, “Okay, well, look. I’m flattered, but I’m with someone else, okay? I’m sorry. I can’t return your feelings,”

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"Inside the school?" That was a weird question.

Ren jumped, “What the- where did you come from?!”

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"Amanomiya?!" Yui exclaimed. "Oh! I know her! She's cute!"

"Oh! Why thank you, Yui-chan~" the girl in question chimed.

“But how do you know Hiromi didn’t write them?!”

Ren uncrumpled one of the letters and opened it, “I don’t even recognize this name!”

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"If you're not interested then write that!" Yui said. "You can't just ignore her, it's wrong!"

Ren look surprised, “I… don’t want to? You’re the only girl I care about. I can’t trust these at all. Hiromi knew about them!”

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"They look real to me!" Yui said. "Answer them! PROPERLY!"

“How do I know these are even real? Hiromi might have written them all. Besides, I don’t want to answer and give hope to another girl if they are real,”

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"You can't do that!" Yui protested. "A girl put her heart into those letters! You have to read them and answer them properly!"

“Burn them, I guess? I have no idea what these are or how they got in my bag.”

He started to pick them up, crumpling them as he went, “You okay?”

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Well that takes care of that, but... "So... what are you going to do with those letters?" Yui asked.

“It has nothing to do with money! Ren needs to marry someone respectable, not some little-“

“LEAVE!” Ren bellowed suddenly, making Hiromi jump. She covered her mouth with her hand and quickly turned away. She rolled up the window and the car sped off.

“What the fuck…” Ren muttered.

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"Ren's money doesn't matter to me!" Yui shouted. "I love Ren because he's Ren! I'd love him even if he was dirt poor!"

“Ren is part of a very influential family! His marriage is very important! You should be flattered that he’d want to marry you!”

“Please, just leave?” Ren begged.