What the hell.
"A long-term meal ticket"! Utaha Kasumigaoka wanted to complain: "Wasn't Sogo just joking?" After all, she had stood there listening to Sogo talk with that guy named Hijikata-whatever for so long, yet he had not taken her seriously at all, had he?
If she had not spoken up just now, that Hijikata-whatever guy would probably have ignored her completely, right?
Utaha Kasumigaoka felt somewhat shaken. Although she had never cared much about other people's opinions or evaluations, as a woman—and Toyogasaki's so-called aloof genius—she was actually quite confident in herself.
For one thing, although she had always acted as though strangers should keep their distance at school, plenty of boys still secretly watched her. Otherwise, she would not have been named one of Toyogasaki's two great beauties in the first place.
Even when Sogo had first noticed her, he had been very interested in her... A certain former Sogo Doma: "..." A person who looked so cold on the surface but was actually so dark inside—if she cried, that expression would definitely be interesting, right?
Of course, the current Sogo Doma would never say such things, so he simply let Utaha Kasumigaoka's imagination run wild. In any case, it was not a bad thing.
In fact, even when she heard that the Shinomiya Family wanted to arrange a marriage with Sogo, Utaha Kasumigaoka had felt somewhat uneasy but had not been overly nervous. She had even had the leisure to imagine an entire series of wealthy-family romance plots.
It could not be helped. Sogo gave her far too much security. For instance, he kept a respectful distance from every woman other than her—well, to be precise, he deliberately kept his distance from others. Although Sogo claimed that kindness had nothing to do with him, Utaha Kasumigaoka privately