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What did being a doting father have to do with Sogo Doma?
"Sogo, you need to remember that I love you both equally—Umaru only seems more favored because she's a girl..." To keep someone from growing jealous of his little sister, Keiryu Doma had once laid his feelings bare to him—or rather, had a heart-to-heart talk with him.
"Huh!?" Yet all this did was leave Sogo Doma confused. "Old man, have you gone stupid? You call that treating Umaru well? Do you even know what it means to be good to someone...?"
"You bastard, whatever Umaru wants, I can bring it back for her..."
"Like that's something nobody else can do..." Sogo Doma shot him a sidelong glance.
"..." Keiryu Doma gritted his teeth. "Last time, just to spend time with Umaru, I didn't even bother with work."
"Don't I often not even bother looking at my homework?" Sogo Doma glanced at him again. "Isn't it just that you're too busy to spend time with Umaru? You're such a failure as a father. No wonder Mom..."
"Hey!" Keiryu Doma panicked.
"..." After falling silent for a while, Sogo Doma finally said gloomily, "I think Umaru's the one who should feel miserable. Having to spend a perfectly good vacation with some old man—if it were me, I'd probably want to die. No, I'd feel physically repulsed!"
"Hey, hey..." Keiryu Doma couldn't hold back any longer. "What old man? No matter what, I'm your father..."
"Tch..." Sogo Doma looked even more disgusted. "Really, the standard protagonist setup is dead parents, a little sister, and a house. The only value in your existence, old man, is reminding me that I'm not the protagonist..."
"Dead parents?" However, Keiryu Doma did not get angry. Instead, he looked at someone with a half-smile. "Are you