"Because I thought that, given the relationship between you and me, Sogo, we didn't need to be so formal..." Kotaro Katsura was exceptionally clear-headed. "Besides, if I didn't say it, would you just assume I didn't know what happened?"
"Sogo, I remember you saying that knowing too much was dangerous."
"And yet you still..." Sogo Doma narrowed his eyes.
"But if I told everyone what I knew and made it something everyone knew, then wouldn't it be perfectly safe?"
"Katsura Kotaro..." Sogo Doma replied, "I think that'd just make things even more dangerous. Never mind, I wasn't expecting to fool you just now anyway. At most, I only wanted to make things look acceptable on the surface..."
"I thought so too..." Kotaro Katsura nodded. "That's why I played along with your little act. To be honest, I'm quite confident in my acting skills—if the script hadn't been so terrible..." Utaha Kasumigaoka: "..." Sure enough, anyone who treated these guys like idiots was the real idiot!
Come to think of it, Sogo's script really was awful!
"Hey, hey..." Sogo Doma protested. "I was just being restricted, okay? Who told you to suddenly show up? I was clearly planning to make that Tae the heroine and put on a story of Flat-Chested Beauty and the Beast. If you hadn't interrupted..."
"Um..." Before he could finish, Kotaro Katsura said, "Sogo, did that Tae offend you? Sure, she's a little flat, but calling her a beast..."
"Of course she offended me..." Sogo Doma cut him off through gritted teeth. Just thinking about what had happened earlier annoyed him. When had he ever suffered such humiliation?
"Huh?" Utaha Kasumigaoka blinked. "I don't remember Miss Tae offending you, Sogo."
"She deliberately got my name wrong..." Sogo Doma was still gritting his teeth. "Katsura Kotaro, if that