If You Remove the Kind Protagonist’s Mask

<p>For the sake of survival, I kissed the protagonist and we became partners.<br/>But I just can’t believe that the ‘kind’ protagonist in the original novel was all an act!<br/><br/>“If I kill you, this partner relationship will be broken.”<br/>“You can’t do that. We’ll both die at the same time.”<br/><br/>We were tied together by a tightly shared fate.<br/>Sharing the same wounds, the same pain, the same life and death.<br/>Plus, we had to have physical contact for the symbiosis?<br/><br/>When I found out about his mask, he was cruel to me with no hesitation.<br/>Unreasonable amounts of work, unreasonable demands…<br/>Why can’t I be with another man?<br/><br/>“I’ve figured it out! How to break this partner relationship!”<br/><br/>Now that my life would be safe, all that’s left is to get away―<br/><br/>“I have no intentions of breaking it.”<br/>“…pardon?”<br/>“Just like you, I’m also curious.”<br/><br/>He held me in his arms and his gaze slowly descended to my lips.<br/><br/>“I’m curious about to what extent our pain will be shared.”</p>