"Are you asking why I didn't lend a hand?" Yukino asked softly.
"Ah~!" Utaha Kasumigaoka smiled. "After all, according to Yukinoshita's own theory, shouldn't you have offered help to Rikka Takanashi or Miss Takanashi?"
"Phew..." Yukino sighed. "However, listening to everything, asking about everything, and helping with everything won't solve the actual problem..."
"So you stayed silent just now? Is that supposed to be an excuse?" Utaha pressed.
"It isn't an excuse..." Yukino frowned. "If they themselves don't want to change, then whatever others do will be futile..."
"How do you know they don't want to change? And what is that judgment based on?" Utaha asked in rapid succession.
"At the very least, I didn't see any sign that they wanted to change."
"I can reluctantly agree that the younger sister doesn't want to change, but what about the older sister?"
"..." Yukino opened her mouth, but in the end, she still couldn't say anything. That older sister probably did want her younger sister to change, didn't she?
It was just that she wouldn't go against the girl's own wishes...
"Actually, Toka never wanted her younger sister to change either." Just as Yukino was considering how to phrase her reply to Utaha, Sogo Doma took over the conversation.
"Hm?" Both Yukino and Utaha froze at his words.
"That's the truth..." Sogo shrugged. "In Toka's eyes, if chuunibyou could let Rikka live a little more happily, a little more easily, and stop dwelling on the past, then what was so bad about chuunibyou?"
"Stop dwelling on the past?" Before he could finish, Yukino frowned. "Although I don't know what Rikka Takanashi went through, not dwelling on the past doesn't mean she should immerse herself in her present fantasies, does it?"
"People always need something to cling to..."
"Something as unrealistic as