Note: From Episode 8, Chapter 5 of the main story, Yukino Haruno.
With a smile, I repeated the evaluation that person had once made of Hayama Hayato.
"What do you mean?"
Anger was clear in Hayama's glare, and impatience colored his voice. His aggressive attitude was completely unlike his usual calm manner.
I gave a slight shrug.
"You told me to make my feelings clear, didn't you? What about you? Is that all you have to say? Can your feelings really be explained that easily? Can you convince someone with just one sentence?"
Finally, I stomped on an extra-large land mine.
"...Are you really such an ordinary, boring person?"
Yukino Haruno would definitely say something like that. She would bring up a different standard and muddy the waters around the correct thing Hayama advocated.
She would also deliberately phrase things in the way the other person least wanted to hear. That was Yukino Haruno's style. Since she had repeatedly left me speechless, it was easy enough for me to imitate her.
Hayama brushed back his hair and wiped away his sweat, then looked toward the sea and murmured in a troubled, faint voice.
"I really hate it when you put it that way..."
"I just wanted revenge."
I tried my best to act cool and composed, but I wasn't as bright and cheerful as he was. All I could manage was a mocking smile.
An eye for an eye. That was the principle of reciprocity too. Revenge was mine to claim.
You hit my biggest sore spot, so now you can have a taste of my pain too.
"It isn't something simple enough to explain with flowery words. So all I can do is keep struggling miserably... though I don't think you can understand."
"Yeah, I can't understand. But I