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We were at the tea terrace where Vertus and I occasionally chatted.
Vertus was trembling as he poured tea, and I was similarly shaking so much that the tea spilled over as I drank.
I kept my head down, unable to look at Vertus.
I wanted to die, and Vertus probably wanted to kill me.
“… Why… Why did you do that?” Vertus asked quietly.
“… Because of money.”
“… Money? What does cross-dressing have to do with money?”
“Well, there was this… cross-dressing contest…”
“Cross-dressing contest? You mean during the festival?”
“… Yeah.”
It seemed Vertus didn’t even know about the existence of the cross-dressing contest.
There was no other excuse I could give.
“… Hasn’t your situation improved recently?”
“Having more money… isn’t a bad thing… ”
“…”
I sat there with my head down, speaking in a barely audible tone, explaining why I had cross-dressed.
‘This must be the punishment I deserve, right? This feels like the climax of my suffering.
‘There can’t ever possibly be a more difficult situation in my life than this, right? Now that I’ve received all my punishment, I can believe that only happy things will happen from now on, right?’
Vertus’s hands were trembling so hard he barely managed to take a sip of tea, and then he set the cup down on the table.
“What, I mean… No. No, what… this is just…”
Vertus seemed at a loss for words.
It was as if Vertus had been unmasked, but in a different sense than usual.
“N-No, seriously. How am I supposed...
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