"I'm really sorry to make you go to so much trouble."
After bringing Duanmu Huai to another room, Sakurajima Mai, who looked like Toyohama Waka on the outside, lowered her head and apologized. Duanmu Huai merely shrugged.
"Indeed. You should know that I don't like doing extra work. Speaking of which, your luck is really terrible. Everyone else's Puberty Syndrome only happened once, but you've run into it twice? So this thing doesn't make you immune after experiencing it once?"
"Actually... I think the reason might be me."
"Hmm? What do you mean?"
"That girl came last night. Simply put... she ran away from home."
"..."
Duanmu Huai thought about it for a moment.
"In other words, your half-sister ran away from home and came to seek refuge with her older sister, then you took her in, and the next day she turned into this?"
Just reciting that sentence was enough to make Duanmu Huai feel an overwhelming air of family melodrama that he wanted nothing to do with.
"I told you before, didn't I? My mother made me debut as a child star in order to get revenge on my cheating father."
"Yeah, you told me that."
"That girl was also in a theater troupe. It was different from mine, but when we were young, we met at an audition venue."
"...Women's grudges are so pointless."
Duanmu Huai silently shook his head. Wasn't this just a proxy war? Sakurajima Mai's mother couldn't bear to lose her husband, so she made Sakurajima Mai famous to win back a round. Meanwhile, Toyohama Waka's mother couldn't stand losing to the other woman, so she wanted Toyohama Waka to defeat Sakurajima Mai in retaliation.
The two poor children had been dragged into a contest that had nothing to do with them for no