"Just as I thought..." Toshiro Hijikata's reaction made Gan'an Shinomiya laugh again. "Just as I expected, for the renowned Kondo Group to follow my daughter's orders, Lord Hijikata, do you really think there's nothing going on between young master Sogo and my daughter Kaguya?"
"Uh..." Please, someone, come knock some sense into this old man! Toshiro Hijikata was really about to blurt out a retort. He had seen people courting death, but never someone so impatient to do it! Sogo was a siscon—a siscon! Rather than hoping he cared about Kaguya, it would be more realistic to hope Shirogane was a good man...
"Lord Hijikata, there's no need to hold back..." Seeing this, Gan'an Shinomiya smiled again. "Come to think of it, the young master of the Doma Family and my daughter Kaguya could be considered childhood sweethearts. They grew up together in innocence."
"Hehe..." Toshiro Hijikata gave up thinking. What kind of awful childhood friend, and what kind of "innocence," would let a young lady keep the title of Ice Cola Princess all the way through middle school? No, she really had been innocent—after all, if Miss Shinomiya had been suspicious of anything, she would not have been toyed with so badly by that brat Sogo.
"Looks like Lord Hijikata agrees as well..." Gan'an Shinomiya once again slipped into fantasy mode. "If my daughter Kaguya could end up with young master Sogo of the Doma Family, that would be quite an elegant union. How many people get to go from childhood sweethearts to wedding gowns..."
"..." He was beyond saving! This old man was truly beyond saving! Wake up already! That bastard Sogo was the demon trying to swallow up your family's assets!
"Come to think of it, I can be considered an elder who watched that child Sogo