Rent-A-Girlfriend Vol. 21 — Manga Raw / Buy Official

At the party, Umi relentlessly pushes Kazuya, testing his resolve and mocking his amateurish attempts to protect Chizuru. Meanwhile, Mami uncovers the truth about Chizuru’s double life and begins to tighten her grip, using the information as a weapon to isolate her rival. The tension explodes when Mami confronts Chizuru, threatening to expose the lie that fuels her career and her connection to Kazuya. Kazuya, desperate to support the woman he loves, tries to shield her from the fallout, but his interference only complicates the emotional minefield. As the pressure mounts, the boundary between Chizuru’s professional ambition and her true feelings for Kazuya becomes impossibly thin. The volume culminates in a harrowing moment where Kazuya must choose between his desire to confess his love and the reality that doing so might destroy everything they have built together. It is a suffocating, high-stakes battle of wills where the truth is the most dangerous weapon.