Broadcast messages were a very useful feature, or so Sawahara thought. For holiday greetings like Christmas, if he had to send one to every friend in his phone individually, he would rather not send any at all. He had no desire to do such meaningless drudgery.
Aside from a handful of people, Sawahara had simply mass-sent greetings to everyone in class. He had even copied the template straight from the internet.
"Kushida, are you not done sending messages yet?" Sawahara lay on the bed, watching Miss Kushida diligently type away.
After confirming that Sawahara would not have to work a shift for the Student Council on Christmas Day, Miss Kushida had cleared her Christmas Eve schedule and come to Sawahara's room to "vent her emotions."
"Almost. I only have a dozen or so messages left." Kushida answered without looking up, her fingers continuously tapping at her phone screen.
"Why not just send them all at once? There's no need to send holiday greetings one by one. Hardly anyone reads them anyway."
"How could I do that? Some people care about this sort of thing, and some even compare the greeting messages they receive with the people around them. If they found out they were all the same, they'd think I was brushing them off, and then they'd quickly cut ties with me." Kushida utterly detested anything that might lower people's opinion of her.
"People like that actually exist?" Sawahara could not really understand why anyone would care so much about something like that.
"Hah, what did you expect? I had classmates like that in middle school." Kushida began talking about one of her former classmates.
"When her best friend's boyfriend sent her a holiday greeting, it was a mass message. She compared it to the one her best friend got,