Riki watched silently as Sean argued with his manager over the phone.
Judging from Sean's expression, things weren't going well. The look of despair on his face was clear.
Riki didn't understand why he was caught between Sean, his agency, and the killer. But Riki couldn't just back down or wash his hands of the situation.
Sean reminded Riki of himself in the past. He was desperate and thought he was alone. All Riki could think about at the time was how to escape the situation.
He felt completely powerless when false accusations were leveled against his father, when he had to face the consecutive deaths of his parents. Then, his desperate older brother only added to his burden.
If no one else supported him, like Evan… Riki might have decided to do something terrible to himself.
And Sean, it seemed like he had no one. Where were the friends he mentioned earlier? How busy were they that they let Sean face everything alone?
