Watanabe Endo was immediately reeling from this, not knowing how to respond. It was like his mind was drawing a blank, and he could hear nothing but white noise.
The static kept on going, and he couldn't open his mouth to say anything coherent or even mildly intelligible.
He was trying so hard to find the right response, the right action, the right reaction, the right—
"Endo." Ren Jidian called out.
That didn't bring him back at all. His body simply went autopilot and responded with the most basic and meaningless response ever.
"What?"
Ren Jidian repeated himself. "I said I am only interested in you."
"Interested….. I see..." Watanabe Endo looked down.
He smacked himself for sounding so dumb, giving such an empty response like that from Ren Jidian's very sincere and heartfelt confession.
But he really could not do anything besides give these vague and apathetic words in a sort of self-preserving method.