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Teachers in hot-blooded manga never gave up on a single student in their class, and Shizuka Hiratsuka firmly believed in that. So even when facing Sogo Doma, she had never considered giving up on him—instead, she kept thinking about how to straighten out that twisted, contradictory personality of his...
In truth, Shizuka Hiratsuka had been happy when Sogo Doma got involved with Yukino Yukinoshita. If he was the very embodiment of a couch potato—lazy and worldly—then Yukino was the embodiment of earnestness, righteousness, and innocence. Yet because she was too earnest and too righteous, Yukino's world had not exactly gone the way she wanted...
In this world, which was neither right nor gentle, the more righteous and gentle someone was, the harder life became for them. In contrast, Shizuka Hiratsuka thought of Sogo Doma. That bastard who was neither righteous nor gentle lived a remarkably carefree life. But as the saying went, when you're young, you don't know the taste of sorrow; when the years pile up, you want to speak, yet hold your tongue!
There was a common belief in this world—everything a person did today would be paid for by their future self.
Looking at Sogo Doma through that lens, calling his study habits "three days fishing, two days drying nets" would have been flattering him. The guy basically vanished from his teachers' sight the moment he had caught up on his sleep. Sure, he had taken first place in Tokyo on the mock exams, but studying was like rowing against the current: if you didn't move forward, you fell behind!
Of course, that was how normal people thought. After all, not everyone had cheats enabled like Sogo Doma. He wanted to fall behind himself, especially when it came to his memory ability. But there was nothing