Blood Is Thicker Than Water May Be a Common Saying, but Most People Can't Escape Such Biases

What even was all that? Sogo Doma's remarks left everyone endlessly complaining, but Utaha Kasumigaoka alone seemed to have vaguely realized something, her expression extremely strange.

"Hahahaha..." Kotaro Katsura laughed even harder. "Sogo, are you encouraging Elisaki in a roundabout way?"

"Huh?" Sogo Doma was equally baffled. "How did you hear that as encouragement? I just think that while becoming a samurai's woman isn't easy either, compared to becoming a samurai..." The others—

"..." They understood what he meant now. But why could the same words carry two completely different meanings?

Only Utaha Kasumigaoka smiled without saying a word. This was nothing. It was truly satisfying whenever Sogo-kun clashed with Yukinoshita in the Service Club. Did they know what it meant to be so outstanding that your entire being was an A?

It sounded like a compliment, but only by looking at Sogo-kun's eyes could one understand just how vicious that A was. By the time Yukinoshita caught on, she had nearly gotten as angry as Eriri!

Still, she seemed unable to look straight at that line from a certain manga protagonist—I'm going to become the man who becomes the King of the Pirates!

Meanwhile, Elisaki wasn't annoyed at all. Instead, she looked somewhat lost in her thoughts. If it was Mr. Katsura, then being a woman who wanted to become a samurai didn't seem so bad, did it?

"Sogo!" But just as her imagination began to run wild, Kotaro Katsura said, "Are you looking down on Elisaki's resolve? Elisaki, she—she..."

"Alright, alright..." Sogo Doma had no interest in arguing with Katsura Kotaro. From beginning to end, all he had wanted was to stop the smug Katsura from being smug. If Elisaki hadn't suddenly interrupted, he couldn't have been bothered to say so much. "Whether it's becoming a samurai or