Chapter 71: And then, farewell.

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Translator: Soafp

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Now, I can’t say anything to Maya.

I don’t understand myself anymore.

What’s wrong with me?

Maya must have suffered terribly because of me.

Whether I chased her or ran away, Maya would pursue me.

I would have destroyed her.

But Maya, who is apologizing and bowing, has decided to stop chasing me.

In other words, she’s prepared to part ways with me.

There’s just over a week until the promised one month is up. When that time comes, Maya will leave and live apart from me. I can’t break her anymore.

Thump!

I stomped on the floor, unable to bear something.

Once we part ways, there’s nothing to bind Maya.

Marriage is about living together while bound to each other. Ordinary couples bind each other with love. But Maya and I were bound by something else, not love.

I had come to feel relieved that I could bind Maya. As long as that binding existed, Maaya would never leave me of her own free will.

But now, Maya herself has decided to disappear from my sight as if there had never been such a binding.

This haze, it won’t go away.

What’s wrong with me?

Damn it, why? Why!

— Ultimately, am I just going to be abandoned?!

Ugh, ugh, ugh…

I fell to my knees and cried in embarrassment.

How pathetic am I?

— Isn’t that fine? Wasn’t that what you wanted? To part ways with Maya?

No. I…

— Whether you initiate the breakup or Maya leaves you, isn’t it all the same?

No!!

Aaahhhhhhhh… Ahhhhhhhhhhh…

Hearing my cry of despair, as if there was nothing but despair in this world, Maya, who probably didn’t understand my feelings at all, began to cry violently in response.

Until the end, we were just passing by each other. A couple like us becoming married was just impossible.

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“… Thank you for everything.”

“… Yeah.”

And so, Maya and I finally reached the day of our farewell.

It was exactly one month after our promise.

“The alimony… I’ll pay it regularly…”

“If you’re willing to transfer it, I won’t set a specific date.”

“… If it’s not too much trouble, I’d like to give it to you directly…”

“… Do as you please. If you’re willing to pay, that’s enough.”

The words of parting were just that.

I don’t feel like insulting her now, nor do I feel like clinging to her.

It’s strange.

After deciding to part ways, Maya and I embraced each other every day.

There were times when it was my turn, and times when it was Maya’s turn. There were times when we indulged in intimacy all day long.

Was it at this time that we, who could no longer obtain the normal couple that we shouldn’t have, began to seek each other out?

Of course, I made love to Maya the day before we broke up.

But at that moment — did I imagine there was a lump in Maya’s br*asts?