"Sounds like you know the Celestial Empire quite well?" Masuzu Natsukawa suddenly asked while someone was going on at length.
"More or less..." Perhaps because they were talking about the Celestial Empire, Sogo Doma instinctively became modest. Of course, it was not really modesty. Although he had traveled all over the Celestial Empire in his previous life, it was simply too vast. Compared to this place, where the entire country seemed to have sunny weather at the drop of a hat, he really could not claim to know the Celestial Empire well...
Of course, it was more than enough to fool foreigners:
"To be honest, if Natsukawa were studying abroad in the Celestial Empire, you would not need to worry about boys harassing you..."
"Huh?" Masuzu Natsukawa froze. "How come?"
"In high school, starting morning reading before seven-thirty is perfectly normal, and finishing evening study sessions between nine-thirty and ten-thirty is perfectly normal too. Dating? Are you kidding me? Have you finished the Five-Year College Entrance Exam practice books? You have? Then there are new ones..."
"Are students in the Celestial Empire all monsters?" Masuzu Natsukawa could not help herself.
"Why would you think that?" Sogo Doma tilted his head. "Isn't high school for studying? Students in this country are just too idle, which is why they have time for this lovesick nonsense. If they put all that energy into studying, how would there be so many troublesome issues?"
"What about exclusion and isolation..." Even Yukino Yukinoshita could not help speaking up.
"Don't even think about it. That's one of humanity's bad habits. Unless there is a comprehensive monitoring system, no country can completely eliminate campus bullying..." Sogo Doma never avoided the facts.
"Even under such intense academic pressure, those things still happen? As expected, the exceptional ones..." The Second