Chapter 10: What If I Saw the Bastard's True Nature?

Saying so, Yuu showed me the screen. On it was a photo folder containing a large number of photos of Kiyama and various women, which appeared to have been secretly taken.

「Oi, this...」

「Oi, oi, oi! To think he's such a playboy with that harmless face. How many is that? Just how many women is he "friendly" with? He even has pictures of himself with them, how thoughtful.」

「...Hmph. So in the end, Meari is just one of his many "friends". What a dumb woman. And I'm even lower than that for being done in by such an idiot.」

「Don't say that. If you've hit rock bottom, all you have to do is crawl your way back up. …Oh, this one's pretty interesting.」

What Yuu showed me wasn't information about a woman. It was a neat list of evidence of his match-pump schemes—when, where, with whom, and what he did. His meticulous nature backfired on him. This is the kind of stuff you should hide in your desk.

「What else. …It seems he got involved with Togawa-san a month ago. Does that ring a bell?」

「That's around when she started avoiding me. Well, this is just as I expected.」

「Yeah. Is there anything more damning──」

「Wait, what's that?」

「Ha?」

I was pointing at a single video.

「Hmm? ...Ahh, this is a masterpiece. It seems Kiyama──was also involved with a teacher.」

The video was filmed by a smartphone camera that seemed to have been planted.

Filmed like a hidden camera, it showed Kiyama and a female teacher kissing.

「Wasn't this teacher supposed to have resigned to get married? Something about her fiancé and being pregnant.」

「Don't tell me that bastard Kiyama...!」

There were other videos. And they were outrageous.

『I'm marrying him because we had an arrangement. You're the one I truly love.』

『I know, I feel the same way. But as I am now, I cannot be with you...!』

『Don't say anything more, it can't be helped. But I will protect the memory of you along with this child forever.』

Saying so, the female teacher strokes her noticeably swelling belly. Her face was truly that of a mother adoring something precious.

「So moving it makes my nose curl. A woman drunk on being a tragic heroine and a man reveling in his own acting... It makes me sick knowing such shitty people are so close by.」

I completely agree with Yuu as he spits out those words.

This means we've obtained a trump card.

「Alright, we can't take too long. …Let me just connect this.」

Yuu takes an external card reader out of his pocket and connects it to his phone.

He began transferring Kiyama's data to the card mounted in the reader.

「This is gonna take a bit of time. …Ah, senpais, can you stretch it out just a little longer? Sorry, thank you so much.」

「A wireless device, why do you have something like that?」

「I borrowed it from the guys in the robotics club. They're basically unpopular with girls, so when I told them it was to punish a guy who preys on women, they were happy to lend it to me.」

The work progresses without me having time to be amazed at the breadth of Yuu's network.

In the meantime, Yuu is fiddling with Kiyama's smartphone.

As for me, I have nothing particular to do, so I'm just looking at Kiyama's smartphone with Taki. The smartphone is filled with the names of women we don't know. Some names I've never even heard before. I had no idea he was such a womanizer. Come to think of it, I hear powerful people are also big players in that department, but he is one of them, huh.