Chapter 140: The Story Only She Knows
Seeing what Yukima Azuma had brought, Kurokawa Akane didn't show any particular reaction. She simply took it in silence.
It was her phone.
The same phone that had been taken from her at the police station... then confiscated by her mother, Mrs. Kurokawa. At some point, Yukima Azuma had visited the Kurokawa household and retrieved it. Now, he had personally returned it to her.
Once, this device had nearly pushed her to the brink of death. A gateway to a flood of judgment, mockery, and despair, all broadcast in endless scrolling lines of text.
But now—now she felt neither the disgust nor the fear she had expected.
Because it was brought by Yukima Azuma, she simply accepted it with quiet calm. She placed the phone in her bag, as though it were just any other item.
Still, she made one vow.
She would never open social media again.
Because if she did... if she relapsed into that digital abyss... she might not come back.
She might die.
And if she died, who would be there for Yukima Azuma?