"Hehe..." Utaha Kasumigaoka suddenly started laughing.
"What are you laughing at now?" Sogo Doma was thoroughly confused. By all rights, even if she was not angry after hearing him talk about conquering a harem, she should not have been laughing so happily.
"Sorry, I just remembered something happy," Utaha Kasumigaoka said.
"Did your hamster at home get pregnant or something?" Sogo Doma wanted to roll his eyes.
"Pfft..." As soon as he finished speaking, Utaha Kasumigaoka burst out laughing again.
"I know, you've had professional training, so you usually don't laugh unless you can't help it. So what exactly did you think of?" Sogo Doma said helplessly.
"Cough, cough..." Utaha Kasumigaoka hurriedly coughed twice before suppressing her laughter. "Sogo-kun, haven't you realized that you've blocked off your own path to a harem?"
Sogo Doma: "..."
Huh!?
"For Yukinoshita, teaching you a lesson is her greatest goal. There is no way she could develop any other feelings for you. As for Sawamura-senpai, you're a demon in her eyes. Even if you went before the two of them now and pretended to be a good guy, it would be hard to erase that ingrained impression. Besides, just as I said earlier, if you admitted defeat, wouldn't you become just like every other boy?
"And if you suddenly started showering them with attention for no reason, Yukinoshita and Sawamura-senpai would probably become even more wary of you..."
Sogo Doma: "..."
That made so much sense that he had nothing to say. But still—
"You laughed because of that?" Had Utaha Kasumigaoka misunderstood something?
"Why not? Sogo-kun, fantasizing about having a harem only to cut off every possible path yourself—hehe..."
"Isn't there still Ako?"
"Do you want me to explain who U, M, and R are?" Utaha Kasumigaoka blinked again.
"Then there's still Mashiro."