Chapter 10 - Breakdown (1/2)

Chapter 10 - Breakdown

"How did you… get here?" Reina asked with a confused look on her face "You were at the top…"

Rudy averted his gaze and answered, "I…"

Rudy noticed he was standing near the slide, so hedown through this slide And then I heard your screen When I looked up, you were falling, but I soed to catch you"

"Anyway…" Rudy tried to dodge the topic and gazed at Reina with a concerned look on his face: "Are you okay?"

Reina meekly nodded with a sad look on her face

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Rudy let Reina down and sighed in relief

'I ju What if I had failed to catch her, or my powers didn't work? Both of us would have died'

When Rudy orried about his powers, Reina was concerned about so else

"Why… did you save me?" she uttered in a low voice

"Huh?"

"You should have let me die!" Reina yelled as tears rolled down her eyes

"Wait… don't tell me you jumped on purpose?" Rudy asked with a furious look on his face

"No" Reina shook her head and said, "But you should have letelse"

"I would have to live life to pay loans My life has no happiness I don't even have a future!" Reina sobbed "What if the water park doesn't ell as I have planned?"

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"My life has no happiness!"

Rudy looked at Reina's crying face and s a breakdown, so she has been holding back all her pain, huh?'

In his previous life, Rudy lived the same life His family was in debt, and Rudy had proive a happy life to his fa a burden to him

'Our lives are so similar Maybe it's not a coincidence that I met her?' Rudy asked himself

Rudy placed his hands on Reina's shoulders and said, "Hey… look at me"

Reina turned her face to the side and tried to wipe her tears, but they weren't stopping

"Reina… look at me," Rudy said in a calm voice

Reina looked at Rudy's face and sniffed

'I don't want to die!' After seeing Reina's crying face, Rudy re extre after re that

'Don't… Rudy You have a chance to save 'her' in this life'

"Reina…" Rudy called her naentle voice and continued, "Listen to ht?"

Reina nodded in response

"What's her name, and how old is she?"

"Her nah school," Reina replied honestly

"If you die or so happens to you, Rina will have to take all the burden by herself, you know?"

Reina i to say

"Do you want her to feel the sae?" Rudy asked calh Reina had it worse She o, so she must be around 15 years old at that time, and she was burdened with the loans and the responsibilities'

Reina shook her head violently and said, "No I don't I want her to live a norht? So stop with these suicidal thoughts, okay?"

Reina quietly nodded with a flushed face

"Good Now let's go—"