With his rich life experience, Sogo Doma had long understood one principle—when others suspected you, the more you argued, the more they thought you had a guilty conscience. If you stayed silent and said nothing, that only confirmed their assumptions.
This was what they meant by: a rumor took one mouth to spread, but clearing it up could run you ragged.
That did not mean people were entirely powerless against rumors. Sogo Doma had hundreds of ways to free himself from their effects. Of course, most of them were far too time-consuming and labor-intensive, such as manipulating public opinion or forcibly brainwashing people...
So, since he had not cared all that much at first, he simply chose the least costly method—forcefully changing the subject. Human memory was rather limited; as long as no one brought up a rumor, people would gradually forget it. That was why he repeatedly shifted the topic to Mashiro—or rather, Eriri...
Although Sogo Doma had not figured out what exactly had happened, as long as he was not blind, he could more or less see Yukino's protectiveness toward Mashiro. And yet that little blonde Eriri had actually shown Mashiro doujinshi. Umm...
If Sogo Doma had not remembered that he had once taught Eriri how to create doujinshi plots, he would have been unable to stop himself from asking what she was doing. It was one thing for Mashiro to read doujinshi, but what if she led his stupid little sister astray? Though his stupid little sister might understand even more than Eriri, as long as he did not know about it, it did not exist...
A true idealist warrior!
Still, it was really hard for him to criticize Eriri. After all, the plot of her most famous doujinshi had been provided by him. What could he