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"Ms. Hiratsuka, it's not that I look down on Taihei, but do you know how many friends that idiot little brother of mine had back in school?" Sogo Doma, Taihei's lifelong hater, asked.
"EMMM..."
"Two..." Before Shizuka Hiratsuka could speak, Sogo Doma put on a grief-stricken face. "Only two! He didn't even measure up to Yukinoshita. At least Yukinoshita has Mashiro, Utaha, Ako, and even Little Gold—cough, cough, Eriri—now. But Taihei only had those two friends, and not only did he not care, he even said something about having as many as two friends..."
Shizuka Hiratsuka felt utterly embarrassed. What did he mean, Taihei didn't even measure up to Yukinoshita???
Before Yukino transferred to Toyogasaki, she hadn't had a single friend. Besides, having two friends was already pretty good. But when Shizuka thought of the bastard before her and his social circle, she didn't know whether she should say that out loud. He was clearly a problem student who could even abandon his club, so why did everyone who mentioned him sound as though they knew him well? Did he really need to be that popular?
Sogo Doma: "..."
As the publicly acknowledged Love Saint—and a former club president who had secured tens of millions of yen in funding—how could he possibly have poor relationships? Never mind the Love Saint part; just the club budget in the tens of millions meant anyone who saw him had to call him a god of wealth. He wanted to keep a low profile too, but his ability simply wouldn't allow it...
"Actually, what matters in friendship is mutual understanding..." After hesitating for a while, Shizuka Hiratsuka finally retorted, "Having two true friends isn't bad at all."
"But one of Taihei's friends is a HENTAI. Besides, shouldn't the important point be that he