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"Is that a double entendre?" Shizuka Hiratsuka asked hesitantly.
"Who knows?" Sogo Doma merely blinked, offering no direct answer.
...That vague response left Shizuka Hiratsuka silent for quite a while before she finally said faintly, "But isn't helping others the Service Club's guiding principle?"
"Our Service Club?" Sogo Doma asked in surprise.
"Is there a problem with that?" As she spoke, Shizuka Hiratsuka pulled a cigarette from her pocket. Though this guy seemed to be talking about Taihei, wasn't he also talking about...
She probably needed some nicotine to calm down before she could figure out what he was after.
"Isn't your use of 'our' wrong?" Sogo Doma said. "The Service Club is Yukinoshita's Service Club alone..."
Puff... Before he could finish, Shizuka Hiratsuka blew a cloud of smoke right at him. Whether she was returning the favor for him suddenly leaning closer earlier, or simply using it to cut off his explanation, was unclear.
"Is that really so?" she asked again.
"Cough, cough..." The person who had been smoked out coughed twice. "For now, that's right, Shizuka Hiratsuka. Smoking is bad for your health. You don't seriously want me to swap your cigarettes with Black cigarettes, do you?"
"Consider this a small return gift..." Shizuka Hiratsuka scratched her head. "Of course, if little Doma let me punch him a few times, I wouldn't need to return the favor with smoke..."
Sogo Doma: "..."
How had he offended this old woman again? Her idea of a return gift was punching him a few times? And if she couldn't punch him, she'd use biological weapons? How vicious!
But before he could say anything, Shizuka Hiratsuka continued, "Little Doma, do you really think the Service Club belongs to Yukinoshita alone?"
"Doesn't it?" Sogo Doma set aside his inner complaints and asked