"Doma, before that, please figure out the difference between not being kind and being annoying!" Having suddenly learned that she had become an experimental subject, and that someone had even drawn a baffling conclusion from it, Yukino Yukinoshita smiled through gritted teeth.
"Actually, making Yukinoshita angry was the optimal solution I arrived at after considering things from multiple angles..." Sogo Doma explained.
"The optimal solution?"
"Yep..." Sogo Doma nodded. "In fact, everyone should know about the contrast effect, right?"
"What do you mean?" Only Yukino Yukinoshita, who had only recently begun to understand 2D culture—or rather, story structure—could ask such a question.
"I can explain that..." As a professional habit of a light novel author, Utaha Kasumigaoka couldn't help saying, "For example, a battle-hardened general who kills without batting an eye is actually a beautiful girl, or a terrifying dictator is just a young boy. Characters who don't match their established image can make people feel a certain appeal. That's what they call gap moe..."
At that, Utaha Kasumigaoka paused as she looked at the second Miss before continuing, "Though it's hard to find that sort of gap moe in Yukinoshita. She looks like an iceberg, but after getting to know her, you discover—yes, she really is an iceberg. Totally unqualified! Even Goldie has the gap moe of being tsundere..."
"What about you?" Yukino Yukinoshita wanted to roll her eyes.
"This girl is two-faced..." Eriri said from the side. "She looks so aloof, but she's actually a lewd old lady and a scheming monster. Oh, and she's got a sharp tongue too!"
"So Kasumigaoka has this so-called gap moe too?" Yukino Yukinoshita asked skeptically. "Where's the moe?"
"Exactly, exactly, that's what I think too..." As if she had found a pillar of support, Eriri nodded frantically. "I don't feel like