Tokyo, Akihabara, inside the X Maid Cafe. Sogo Doma studied the person before him with great interest. This was the target he had just realized he could tease—a lone tsundere princess who had taken the initiative to strike up a conversation with him!
As everyone knew, the pleasure gained from teasing a creature known as a tsundere was more than seven times greater than teasing an airhead. After all, an airhead might not even realize you were teasing them. In contrast, when teasing a tsundere who was highly wary of the outside world, their reactions were far more entertaining... like right now. "Eh? I-I-I..." Maki Nishikino looked thoroughly flustered, though she probably had not realized it herself.
"Don't tell me you really wrote that piece?" Sogo Doma
asked "suspiciously."
"N-no..." Maki Nishikino waved her hands.
"Actually, you really don't need to be nervous..." Sogo Doma said considerately.
"I'm not nervous!"
"Is that so?" Her reaction made Sogo Doma smile with delight. "Actually, you could ask it this way: clearly you're the one buying the piece, so why do I have to listen to them sing..." Kotori Minami and Elisaki: "..." He was awful—absolutely awful! The guy in front of them was completely awful!
He was totally manipulating and toying with Nishikino! Maki Nishikino: "..." Huh!? That made so much sense that she could not refute it!
"Th-that's right, I'm the one buying the piece, so y-you should listen to them..." she said instinctively.
"Correct!" Seeing how cooperative she was, Sogo Doma did not wait for her to finish before cutting in again. "But even if you're the one buying the piece, you can't stop me from listening to their songs. You even overlooked that basic logic, so..." Maki Nishikino: "..." Eh!?
"So, you really did write that piece, didn't you?"