"I've always felt that everything Snow Girl said in rebuttal was actually true..." Utaha Kasumigaoka asked knowingly. "So you want to be acknowledged by others..."
"Not that..." Being acknowledged by others was way too cringey, wasn't it? The second young lady retorted again, "As long as the people close to me understand me, I don't care what anyone else thinks."
"So how exactly do you define 'close'?" Utaha Kasumigaoka asked.
"Kasumigaoka, don't tell me you don't even know what closeness means?"
"Sorry, I just think my understanding of closeness might differ from yours, Snow Girl. For example, would you say we're close?" Utaha Kasumigaoka asked.
Yukino Yukinoshita: "..."
"W-What nonsense are you talking about?"
"So we're not?" Utaha Kasumigaoka lowered her head thoughtfully. Yukino Yukinoshita: "..." What was with lowering her head? Could it be...
"That's good, you nearly gave me a heart attack..." Utaha Kasumigaoka looked up. Yukino Yukinoshita: #^_^
"Don't worry. I wouldn't define the relationship between myself and Kasumigaoka... as close."
"However..." Before the second young lady could finish, Sogo Doma took over again. "Shiba just said something very right. Everything Yukinoshita rebutted really was true—for example, wanting to be acknowledged by others..."
"I said, as long as the people close to me can understand me..."
"Yukinoshita, haven't you ever imagined a scene like this? When people see Haruno, they say, 'This is Yukino Yukinoshita's older sister...'" Yukino Yukinoshita: "..." She turned her face away again. She couldn't help it—she really had imagined that!
Utaha Kasumigaoka: "Snow Girl really is incredibly tsundere..."
"Tsundere is the one thing I don't want to hear from someone like you—"
"Why specifically me?" Utaha Kasumigaoka had a knack for catching the key point. Yukino Yukinoshita: "..." Eh!
? What did that mean? Why was that even a question?
"Phew..." The second