"Why is everyone looking at... me like that?" Sakura Yamauchi was a little flustered. It seemed Utaha Kasumigaoka's words had brought something home to her; the Second Miss and the others were all looking at her with rather complicated expressions, leaving her both confused and uneasy.
"Hah..." Seeing this, Yukino Yukinoshita let out a soft breath before saying, "Yamauchi, I shouldn't really comment on the fact that you seem to have quite a favorable impression of Doma, but what would you do if, after actually getting to know him, you found that he was nowhere near as wonderful as you remembered?"
Sogo Doma: "..."
That was offensive!
"Exactly, exactly..." Before he could argue, Eriri nodded. "Sogo does have his good sides, but his awful sides..."
Wearing an expression that said they were only thinking of her, Utaha Kasumigaoka added, "Yamauchi, girls must protect themselves. Even if Sogo encouraged you once and gave you the courage to undergo surgery, so much time has passed. How do you know whether he's good or bad now? If he's a bad person, wouldn't you just be throwing yourself away?"
This was the tacit understanding between them. Only when they were ganging up on a certain someone would these girls, led by Yukino, sound the horn for an attack. Of course, the Second Miss and the little blonde genuinely had Sakura Yamauchi's best interests at heart. As for Kasumigaoka, she probably just wanted to prevent anyone else from taking an interest in her Sogo.
But regardless of their motives, their arguments were well-reasoned and persuasive. This made Masuzu Natsukawa, who was standing nearby, unable to resist whispering to a certain someone, "Doma, I seem to recall you saying just now that I only called you gay to keep other people away from you?"
This guy