232 Mazao's Fantasy

I finally told Mazao my true feelings.

Using that as a starting point, I confessed all the deceptions I'd spun since meeting her, as well as all my entanglements and emotional journeys. I even revealed the disgraceful secret that I planned to use the second Little Bowl as a last-resort threat.

Of course, that included many other things that I didn't necessarily have to say. But having revealed my biggest secret, holding anything back now seemed insincere. If I was to expose myself, I had to lay out everything, spill my guts. In the end, my candor with Mazao wasn't just because my web of lies would eventually unravel, but also because I couldn't stand how I'd lied to her thus far. Now, this was a reckoning with my past self.