Chapter 37: Who are the sanctions for?
Translator: Soafp
The shaky signature on the divorce papers didn’t look like Maya’s usual neat handwriting. I sighed in relief, feeling that the first stage was complete, and relaxed my posture.
“Now, for the next condition.”
“…Yes.”
“I will punish your affair partner, Naoki, mercilessly. As much as I can. He needs to understand how foolish it is to get involved with someone else’s wife, and, above all, I need to be satisfied.”
“…”
“So, Maya, you will cooperate with this unconditionally. Can you do that?”
Maya’s face showed confusion, and I couldn’t understand what it meant.
Not knowing, I decided to take a wild guess.
“…What is it? Are you so reluctant to see the man you love punished?”
“Th-that’s not it.”
“Then what is it?”
“The one most at fault for cheating and betraying you is me. I wonder if I have the right to cooperate in punishing Naoki…”
“That’s a poor excuse.”
I dismissed her words bluntly.
“If you truly regret and are remorseful for betraying me, wouldn’t it be right to make Naoki, your accomplice in this betrayal, atone as well?”
“Th-that is…”
“If you’re reluctant, then it means you don’t regret betraying me. You only regret getting caught.”
Even if she said all the right things, it would ultimately come to that.
If the affair with Naoki hadn’t been discovered, she would have continued treating me like an ATM and living in peace. If it never came to light, she would have hidden it forever. There was no room for remorse in that.
Women who can betray people so easily can also forget inconvenient things just as easily.
“That’s not true, it’s not true… On the night of our wedding anniversary, I regretted it so much I wanted to die…”
“You’re just convincing yourself of that. From my perspective, that’s how it looks. If you truly regretted it, why didn’t you break off with Naoki immediately, why did you keep the s*x videos with him, why did you keep the messages exchanged with him?”
“…”
“Well, there you go. There’s another hint for you to reflect on yourself.”
“…”
“Let me ask you again. Will you cooperate in punishing Naoki?”
Feigning calm, I couldn’t help but feel a pang of hurt inside, mocking myself.
──Why? Why didn’t she eagerly agree to cooperate in punishing him?
I must also be trapped by some kind of curse. I’m in no position to judge others.
“…Yes.”
Maya replied lifelessly, as if suppressing something inside herself. At this rate, I might explode again.
“…I’ll step out for a bit. Do as you please until then.”
I got her to commit, and I needed to cool my head, so I decided to go outside.
We still have a month. If I keep exploding over things like this, I won’t last.
Anger consumes an incredible amount of energy, after all.
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Proof that she's not worth it at all. She was made for the streets
This prove regardless of what she says she love her ex over her atm husband. T