Watanabe's Reason

“Get out?”

With a puzzled expression. Watanabe couldn’t easily come to terms with what I suddenly asked her.

Most likely, she found this situation bizarre. She got pulled into this by Shizu and the other girls yet here I am, offering her a way out if she so wished.

But I stand with my reasoning to try this with her. Even without doing anything too flashy, I somehow got an enemy who was trying to clip my wings. Then there’s the small incident that could easily be written off as unfortunate yet they started dragging me into their trouble.

Now, even if the girls were holding Watanabe’s neck, there’s always that unexpected variable that could come and bite us from the back.

And this situation was my way of stepping up to prevent that.