Before she met Utaha Kasumigaoka, Eriri Sawamura had never thought her judgment of people was utterly terrible. As for Tomoya Aki, half of it stemmed from her guilt over having ignored him in the past, as well as Sayuri Sawamura constantly telling her, "Friends should understand each other. If you make a mistake, you have to admit it..."
In fact, that alone showed the Sawamura Family's excellent upbringing. Although Sayuri Sawamura could be rather unreliable and had even raised Eriri into a major figure in the doujinshi world, when it came to being a person, she still hoped Eriri would grow into an outstanding daughter who dared to take responsibility for her actions.
Yet it was precisely because of that brainwashing education that Eriri placed all the blame on herself and felt deeply guilty toward Tomoya Aki. After all, in her eyes, she was the one who had betrayed him.
Come to think of it, that made sense. When someone with a good education argued with a scoundrel, the former was usually the one at a disadvantage. As the saying went, reason meant nothing when dealing with a brute. Well-educated people tended to see where they themselves had gone wrong, while scoundrels only saw the grievances they had suffered and thus came to resent others—
After all, most people would not blame themselves.
If she had not met Sogo Doma, Eriri's guilt might have expanded without end. That was probably how PUA began...
But fate had made her meet Sogo Doma, who was rather fond of speaking in sarcastic, passive-aggressive tones. "No way, no way? Is there really someone who still can't let go of something from childhood?"
"Guilt? Don't make me laugh. You were both children—why should someone else have had to accommodate him? Couldn't he have accommodated others?"