"Your heart skipped a beat just now, didn't it?" Though he phrased it as a question, Sogo Doma's face was full of certainty. "When I said I'd tailor a new song specifically for Muse, your heart skipped a beat, didn't it?"
"I don't know what you're talking about..." Maki Nishikino said, turning her face away.
"Then let me put it another way. You like Muse—or rather, you want to join Muse too." When dealing with a tsundere, being simple and direct was more effective.
Before Maki Nishikino could react, Kotori Minami froze first:
S-Senpai wanted to join Muse? But thinking about it, that did make sense. If she didn't like Muse and didn't want to join them, Maki wouldn't have helped compose songs for them. But was it really okay to say it so bluntly? She was a tsundere...
Sure enough, just as Kotori Minami had expected, Maki Nishikino's face instantly turned red once she came to her senses. "W-Who said I wanted to join Muse? I-I have no interest in becoming an idol at all. The only reason I pay attention to them is... is because, because..."
Kotori Minami: "..."
Elisaki: "..."
She was being way too textbook-tsundere!
"Because you were afraid they'd ruin the songs you wrote?" Seeing that she couldn't come up with an answer, Sogo Doma had no choice but to prompt her.
"That's right, th-that's exactly it!" Maki Nishikino immediately went along with it.
Kotori Minami felt the corner of her eye twitch. "..."
If she hadn't already noticed Maki's tsundere tendencies, she would probably have gone up and argued with her. But now, she only wanted to say: Mr. Katsura had been right. This seemingly sunny handsome guy was really dark!
"If you're afraid of that, then why did you start writing songs for