Sogo Doma was an idiot! Yukino Yukinoshita believed she had noticed that long ago. That idiot would rather shoulder everything himself than tell the people he had helped—people like her. That idiot would offer others a way out at precisely the right moment, only to put on an infuriatingly smug act afterward. That idiot...
But did not think she could only see the trees and not the forest.
"Classmate Natsukawa is right. They are all my friends..." the second daughter said. Did not think she was unaware of it—Doma had probably seen her predicament and deliberately spouted all that nonsense. After all, the new transfer student had just said that the Service Club was merely playing some boring friendship game...
Indeed, Yukino Yukinoshita had never expected at first that she could make so many friends. But if she admitted that, would that not mean Masuzu Natsukawa had not been wrong? That the person claiming she could understand the other side was actually the one who understood nothing, because she already had friends.
However, that did not mean the second daughter would deny it. Since she had already acknowledged these people, Yukino Yukinoshita would never deny their relationship. She simply had to tell the other girl that they were not playing some boring game of friendship. They were people who supported one another and moved forward together...
Even though she often bickered with Utaha Kasumigaoka, the second daughter was happy to have met someone as unwilling to admit defeat as herself. Even though Mashiro understood nothing, the sight of her marching straight toward her goal also delighted the second daughter. Even though her junior Sawamura was a doujin artist, she too was striving to change everything, and that brought the second daughter no small comfort...
As for Tamaki, though she seemed