"But isn't that the same as the question I just asked?" Yukino Yukinoshita frowned. "If there's a friend by your side who's better than you at everything..."
"Let me ask again: other than a few extreme cases, who would be jealous of those idols on TV who are vastly superior to them?" Sogo Doma chuckled.
"What do you mean?"
"Yukinoshita, do you have any intention of dating?"
"How could I possibly..." Yukino Yukinoshita answered very quickly.
"So, as long as everyone realizes that, without any direct conflict of interest, most of the malice will fade away..." Yukino Yukinoshita: "..."
"So you really did do something, didn't you?"
"It wasn't what I did. It was what you did..."
"Me?" The second young lady froze, then suddenly seemed to recall something. Her mouth twitched. "You can't be talking about those things from before, can you?"
"A cold and aloof flower on a lofty peak can make people feel she's hard to approach, but a cold and aloof goofball on a lofty peak is unexpectedly popular..."
"Who are you calling a goofball?" Yukino Yukinoshita gritted her teeth.
"I didn't say that..." Sogo Doma spread his hands. "Everyone says it. Although Yukinoshita is kind of silly, she's unexpectedly cool—and cute%..." Utaha Kasumigaoka: "..."
"Yukinoshita actually gets that kind of evaluation?"
"Ah~!" Sogo Doma nodded. "Think about what Yukinoshita did when she first arrived, and you won't find it so surprising..." Yukino Yukinoshita: "..." What had she done?
Of course, she had stared relentlessly at someone. Everyone knew about that? Utaha Kasumigaoka: "..." Wait!
"In other words, the girls all thought Yukinoshita's target was you?"
"More or less..." Sogo Doma neither confirmed nor denied it.
"Because her target was Sogo, nobody considered her an enemy?"
"..." Sogo Doma's mouth twitched at that. Thinking about it,