The wise Goddess Aqua of the Axis Order had long since said in her teachings, "Running away may be shameful, but it works!"
In Sogo Doma's memories, there had also been stories where the heroine saw supernatural creatures and muddled through by pretending she had not seen them...
Based on that, he could fully deduce the truth that burying one's head in the sand was not necessarily useless. If he pretended not to notice—no, if he simply could not see Utaha at all—then perhaps she would not vent her low-pressure mood on him?
Sogo Doma thought he was quite the clever little rascal. Unfortunately, the idiot members of the Kondo Group could never learn his wit. If Okada and the others had understood to cooperate and keep the topic going, would that not have given him more room to argue his case before Utaha? As long as they gave him a little time to think, he would definitely come up with an airtight excuse...
Unlike now, when he could only place his hopes in his acting skills—his Oscar-worthy performance, the kind that revealed its true brilliance through plainness—to portray a scene where nothing had happened, nothing existed. What Utaha? What low pressure?
As long as his acting was convincing enough...
"Um..." Sogo, whose intelligence-reducing buff was stacking like crazy, looked around with his "unpretentious" acting. "Okada, which person are you talking about? Why don't I see anyone? Are your eyes playing tricks on you...?"
His performance was so natural that Okada and the others were left awkwardly silent—Captain, could you possibly make it any faker?
"..." The dark aura around Utaha Kasumigaoka grew even denser. "Then I'll leave?"
"Cough, cough..." What the hell, could anyone really believe the teachings of the Axis Order? What use was running away!? Sogo Doma