I Was Heartbroken After Discovering My Girlfriend’s Infidelity, but Suddenly I Became Popular With Girls - 2

Chapter 2: Proof of Her Affair Was on Her Phone

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I had a girlfriend named Riona Kanou, whom I had been dating for four years, starting from our university days until now. In ordinary terms, she was sufficiently cute and had a good personality. I was twenty-four, and she was twenty-two. Recently, she had been saying, “I want you to meet my parents,” and I was thinking about an engagement.

Naturally, I hadn’t told anyone exactly how many assets I possessed. She hadn’t asked, but since she came to the funeral when my family passed away in the accident, I think she understood the general circumstances. The subsequent inheritance settlement and the compensation issues with the bus company’s insurance provider eventually turned into a lawsuit.

Even when I took a temporary leave from university for inheritance matters and meetings with lawyers, Riona visited me frequently and supported me. She was a kind girlfriend who supported me emotionally when I lost my family. While I have been feeling something more than just goodwill from Yuna-san lately, I owe a great debt of gratitude to Riona, and I thought I would be the lowest kind of human being if I broke up with her. I had an obligation to make her happy.

Initially, she had been trying to persuade me when I didn’t get a job after graduating from university. She would often say things like, “Hey, I know it’s hard losing your family, but you have to pull yourself together soon. If you stay a shut-in forever, you’ll be left behind by society,” or “I don’t know how to explain things if I introduce you to my parents like this,” and “I want you to find a job.”

However, the company she joined after graduation was N Securities in Nihonbashi, which I had dealings with. There, she discovered that my name was on the VIP list.

“Ryo-kun, that’s amazing! Your name was on our VIP list!”

She had probably looked into my accounts at other securities firms and trust banks as well.

“Ryo-kun, you have enough money that you don’t even have to work. I can brag about you to my parents!”

She told me, “You don’t need to get a job anymore.”

After that, she said she wanted me to meet her parents as soon as possible. Looking at her high tension, I remember feeling a bit disappointed, thinking that she was happy simply because she found out I was wealthier than she had imagined. Riona’s parents were divorced, and she was raised by her mother. Having seen her mother’s hardships, Riona probably wanted to make her happy. I was thinking it was about time to get engaged.

At this time, I still hadn’t even considered breaking up with her.

Since she had been living alone using a scholarship since entering university, she would come to my room on Saturdays and Sundays. I held a key to her room, but since the entrance door to my mansion wouldn’t open without an ID card or a PIN code—and even the elevator for this floor couldn’t be used without one—I had told her the PIN. Well, I had only been to her apartment once since graduating university, though.

When I got out of the bath, she was on LINE with a friend in the living room, but when I urged her to take her turn, she said, “Yeah, I’ll go hop in then,” and headed for the changing room. When I returned to the living room with a beer in hand, her smartphone was sitting there. She usually kept it in her bag and rarely took it out, so thinking it was unusual, I looked at it and saw it wasn’t closed.

She must have forgotten to lock it. Usually, she kept a lock on her phone, so I thought this was my chance. While feeling bad about it, I felt a sudden urge to look at her emails or LINE. After all, she took a long time in the bath. 

Thinking of it as just killing time, I picked up her phone. Then, shocking content entered my sight. It was the LINE chat with her friend from a moment ago.

Friend A: 【Long time no see! How’ve you been?】

Riona: 【It’s been a while! I’m good. I’m at Ryo-kun’s place right now. He’s in the bath.】

Friend A: 【I see. So, is that thing with your colleague, Arai-san, still going on?】

Riona: 【Yeah. That guy snaps the second I mention breaking up. It’s still going.】

Friend A: 【So Arai-san still stays over at your place even now? Having tons of sex?】

Riona: 【I guess. He only stays over about twice a week, though.】

Friend A: 【You’ll be in deep trouble if your boyfriend finds out. You should probably stop.】

Riona: 【That thrill is what makes it good. The sense of immorality makes me tingle.】

Friend A: 【You’re a villain, lol.】

Riona: 【It’s fine as long as I don’t get caught. Nobody gets hurt. Besides, once we’re engaged, I’ll move in with Ryo-kun, and once we’re married, I’ll quit the company, so things will end with that guy then.】

Friend A: 【Which one is better at sex?】

Riona: 【Ryo-kun is incomparably better, but since we’ve been together for four years, it might be getting a bit repetitive. Things with that guy are still fresh and passionate. Like, I feel like I’m really wanted.】

Friend A: 【Hmm. Then won’t you keep going with Arai-kun for a while even after you get engaged, Riona?】

Riona: 【No way. Ryo-kun is the one who’s truly important. That guy is just for fun.】

Friend A: 【Your boyfriend is rich, after all. Come to think of it, didn’t you say you were taking sex photos during play?】

Riona: 【Yeah, but I delete all the images on his phone after we’re done. I never leave them behind. But the photos he took on my phone are still saved there. Because I get excited when I look at them later.】

Friend A: 【You get excited? But you should delete them right away. It’s dangerous.】

Riona: 【True. Once I get home, I’ll transfer them to my PC and delete them from the phone. It looks like Ryo-kun is about to get out of the bath. Later!】

Friend A: 【Later! Be careful not to get caught.】

Riona: 【Of course.】

Riona was cheating on me. Upon finishing reading, my heart pounded with such shock that my chest felt tight. It was painful enough to make me want to vomit.

(I need to take deep breaths, or I’m going to throw up.)

I wanted to confront Riona immediately, but for some reason, I couldn’t find the courage. I downed the beer I was holding in one go. I sat on the sofa as if collapsing into it and repeated my deep breaths.

Finally, I calmed down a little. My chest still felt tight, but I felt I had regained some composure. Perhaps thanks to the beer, my parched throat had been quenched. While she was in the bath, I decided to transfer the data from this phone to my computer. My hands were shaking, and I couldn’t operate it well. I transferred all the folders from the phone to my PC. I looked at a few of them, and they were all outrageous photos. By that point, my legs were shaking, but I had to make sure it didn’t look like I had browsed them. With that single-minded focus, I finished the task and closed her phone.

What should I do? I wanted to drag her out of the bath immediately and confront her. But for some reason, I didn’t have the courage. Right now, the feeling that I didn’t want to see her while she was in the bathroom was strong.

What should I say? Since when had she been betraying me? Since she said he was a colleague, was it after she joined the company? That would make it five months at the most. No, it was possible it had been going on since they were classmates in university. Various thoughts swirled in my head and wouldn’t come together. My heart was still pounding loudly enough to be noisy.

Just then, the chime rang.

Wondering who it could be at a time like this, I opened the door to find Yuna-san from next door. I didn’t know why, but the moment I saw Yuna-san’s face, my heart felt a little lighter.

“Good evening. I made too much meat and potato stew, so I thought I’d share some with you. …Wait, what happened, Ryousuke-kun? You’re pale as a sheet. Are you okay?”

What should I do? Should I talk to Yuna-san? But even if I told Yuna-san about this…

“Hey, what happened? Are you really okay?”

I felt like it was the first time I had seen Yuna-san with such a worried expression. By consulting Yuna-san, I might be able to figure out how to handle things from here. Above all, if I faced Riona like this, I didn’t know what I would do.

“Yuna-san, I have something I’d like to discuss with you. May I go to your room?”

“Yes, of course you can. Oh, but these shoes—is someone here?”

“Yes, my girlfriend is here. She’s in the bath right now.”

“Is it okay to just leave her?”

“It’s about that girlfriend that I want to talk to you.”

“I see. I can’t leave you looking like this. Come to my room right away.”

I was in my pajamas, but anyway, I wanted to get away from this place. Yuna-san must have sensed something from my unusual appearance.

After that, I left a scribbled note on the table saying, “Something urgent came up. I won’t be back until Monday,” and left the room with my computer. I couldn’t get my feelings in order, and right now, I didn’t want to see Riona’s face.

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