"I never expected Yukinoshita to agree with my point of view. I thought you'd be the first to argue against me..." Just as Utaha Kasumigaoka was lost in thought, Sogo Doma wore a look of "surprise" as he spoke.
"What kind of expression is that?" Yukino Yukinoshita rolled her eyes. "Or have I given you some kind of misunderstanding?"
"But isn't the Service Club's purpose to resolve the troubles of those seeking help? In other words, it's what people commonly call volunteer work. Since Yukinoshita can treat every petitioner who comes through the door equally, that sort of egalitarian yasashii—"
"Hehe..." Before Sogo Doma could finish, Yukino Yukinoshita interrupted him with a light laugh. Though that smile looked rather stiff—and rather displeased... If not for what had been said earlier, the young lady might have taken yasashii as a compliment, but...
"Well, I'm terribly sorry, but the Service Club isn't as noble as you imagine, Doma. Likewise, I won't treat every petitioner equally..."
"So there are conditions? The Service Club already barely has any activities, and now there are all these strange requirements for petitioners too..."
"They aren't strange at all..." Recalling something, Yukino Yukinoshita gritted her teeth instinctively. "Surely, if someone came asking me to bully someone with them, I wouldn't have to agree, would I? Before helping someone, you first have to judge whether the matter itself is right or wrong. Treating every petitioner equally would be the greatest cruelty..."
"Heaven and Earth are ruthless, treating all things as straw dogs?" Hearing that, Sogo Doma couldn't help digging a trap.
"I'm not Heaven and Earth..." Yukino Yukinoshita rolled her eyes again. "For Heaven and Earth, favoring neither side is the greatest mercy. But for an insignificant person like me, it's enough to uphold my own sense of what