"Um..." Seeing the topic veering further and further off course, Sogo Doma quickly reminded them, "Weren't we discussing the rumors?"
"Like the rumors about you and Kasumigaoka?" Yukino tilted her head. "No wonder Kasumigaoka looked like that when she heard Yamauchi say she was transferring because of you. If I hadn't known she was into girls..." Sogo Doma: "..." What the hell had Yukinoshita imagined?
"Hold it!" Masuzu Natsukawa suddenly said while he was inwardly complaining. "If it's about you and Kasumigaoka, then why does everyone say Yukinoshita and the others are involved with you..."
"Us?" Yukino Yukinoshita's lips twitched. "Come to think of it, I remember Natsukawa mentioning it too..." Sogo Doma: "..." Who told everyone to see him as some relationship expert and veteran playboy?
"That's why rumors are just rumors..." He turned his face away. "Natsukawa, look—even Yukinoshita herself doesn't know about these things..."
"So you do know, Doma?" Before he could finish, Yukino Yukinoshita cut him off with a smile.
"I do know a little..." Before Sogo Doma could speak, Utaha Kasumigaoka raised her hand. "Apparently, Sogo-kun is known as the Love Saint."
"Apparently?" Yukino Yukinoshita's smile grew even brighter. "Kasumigaoka, I think we need to have a proper talk..."
"They're just some boring rumors." Utaha Kasumigaoka leaned back. "I never took them seriously anyway."
"..." Yukino Yukinoshita paused. "You really are taking it well..."
"It can't be helped. Even without these rumors, there'd be all sorts of other nonsense floating around..." Utaha Kasumigaoka said magnanimously. "Compared to those inexplicable rumors, the ones about Sogo-kun don't seem like much at all."
"Utaha's right..." Sogo Doma agreed. Well, he had actually brought up this topic on purpose. Masuzu Natsukawa had once said that Yukinoshita and the others hadn't been harassed because of him.
Yukinoshita and the others