Sogo Doma had always thought Yukino Yukinoshita was far too serious. Even the smallest matter had to be taken to the point of calling the police. It was just...
"Doma, what you just said is already enough to constitute harassment..." Though the second Miss was smiling, her tone was unusually serious.
"Wasn't that just a joke between friends?"
"I seem to recall someone saying this: We treat you as a friend, yet you want to have a go at us?" The smile on the second Miss's face did not fade.
"Yukinoshita, I was only proving that you're cuter than Natsukawa..." This was why Sogo Doma had not charged in from the start and had instead chosen to reason with them. The second Miss was simply too serious. This was not the first time she had threatened to call the police. Though it was not particularly useful, still...
To make others feel that he was someone who followed the rules fairly well, Sogo Doma could only back down for now. If a person was never afraid of anything, what they earned would not be admiration, but fear. Such a person would find it difficult to have genuine friends—or else their friends would be reckless brutes who feared nothing as well.
Though Sogo Doma seemed rather reckless, for Umaru's sake, and for the sake of getting along well with others, he had to make people think he was not reckless. That was what high emotional intelligence meant.
"Heh heh..." Yukino Yukinoshita let out a cold laugh. "Then should we thank you for your approval?"
"No need for that..."
"How about saving those words to explain to the police officer?" Yukino Yukinoshita said with a light laugh. Though she said that, her hands had long since stopped moving. After all, she did not