Inflated! Utaha Kasumigaoka's remarks had Sogo Doma feeling thoroughly inflated! At Toyogasaki alone, he had three childhood friends and three girls who had fallen from the sky—a heavenly opening hand. So: "Is it my fault I'm so popular?" Naturally, after getting inflated, he had to act cocky for a bit.
"Sogo, are you sure 'popular' is really the right word to describe you?" Unfortunately, Utaha Kasumigaoka was utterly dismissive of that. She shot him a sidelong glance.
"..." That made someone rather awkward. He should count as the popular type, right? He should...
For some reason, whenever he thought of the way Yukinoshita and the others looked at him like he was trash, Sogo Doma no longer felt quite so confident.
"Honestly..." Utaha Kasumigaoka sighed. "After Shizuka Hiratsuka called you out just now, that white-haired beauty who fell from the sky demonstrated her resistance through practical action—um, her resistance toward you..."
"Emmm..." What the hell did "practical action" mean? Sogo Doma's eye twitched. Was he really that bad? No, he should say, "I already knew that little white-haired girl was just using me. The moment she decided I had no value, she could throw me away without hesitation. Heh, hehehe, what a trashy woman!"
"But if you hadn't told her what the ecosystem at Toyogasaki was like..." Utaha Kasumigaoka said indifferently, "perhaps you could've kept pretending with her, and then the pretending might've become real? Isn't that how plenty of romance plots play out? Like, ah, wait—if I put it that way, will you end up regretting it, Sogo?"
"But I knew all of that from the start, didn't I?" Sogo Doma said, puzzled. "What makes you think I'd regret it?"
"Her boobs are big!" Utaha Kasumigaoka stated with perfect logic, the words rolling right off her tongue. "After all,