Chapter 23 - 14
Rize Kamishiro's expression was unusually natural this time.
There was no need to keep up her delicate and demure act—not anymore. Ryoma had already seen her true face, and she saw no point in pretending any longer. Instead, a faint smile tugged at the corners of her lips, though it lacked the warmth she used to feign.
The attack that nearly cost her freedom still lingered in her mind.
Whoever had planned it had nearly succeeded.
If Ryoma hadn't taken her away in time, she might never have been free again.
Rize strongly suspected that the Washuu family had finally tracked her down. She had spent years on the run, avoiding their grasp, but perhaps her time had finally run out.
Of course, she only had part of the story right.
In reality, this wasn't the Washuu family's doing.
It was Furuta Nimura.
The one person she least expected.
And had things gone the way they were supposed to, Rize Kamishiro would have been nothing more than an experiment—just another plaything for Kano Akihiro's research.