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"Shizuka Hiratsuka, it's not that I look down on Taihei, but do you know how many friends that loser had back when he was in school?" Sogo Doma, lifelong Taihei-hater, said.
"Ummm..."
"Two..." Before Shizuka Hiratsuka could speak, Sogo Doma put on a grief-stricken expression. "Just two! He couldn't even compare to Yukinoshita. Yukinoshita at least has Mashiro, Utaha, Ako, and even Little Gold—cough, cough, Eriri—now. But Taihei only had those two friends, and he didn't even care. He even said something like, 'I have as many as two friends'..."
Shizuka Hiratsuka was utterly speechless. What did he mean, he couldn't even compare to Yukinoshita???
Before Yukino transferred to Toyogasaki, she hadn't had a single friend. Besides, having two friends was already pretty good. But when she considered the bastard in front of her and his social connections, she didn't know whether she should say that aloud. He was clearly a troubled student who could even abandon his club activities, so why did everyone who mentioned him act as though they knew him well? Did his popularity have to be this absurdly good?
Sogo Doma: "..."
As the publicly acknowledged Love Saint—and the former club president who had secured tens of millions of yen in funding—how could his social connections possibly be bad? Never mind being the Love Saint; just those tens of millions in club activity funds were enough to make anyone call him the God of Wealth. He wanted to keep a low profile too, but his abilities wouldn't allow it...
"Friends are about sincerity..." After hesitating for a while, Shizuka Hiratsuka finally argued, "Having two true friends isn't bad."
"But one of Taihei's friends is a HENTAI. Besides, shouldn't the point be that he only has two friends?" Sogo Doma shook his head. "Let me put