"Speaking of which..." While Muse and the others were agonizing over it, Sogo Doma continued, "When did I ever say Kazusa would join you? I told you, that was just Katsura Kotaro's guess..."
Kotaro Katsura: "..."
Huh? Had that bastard Sogo been setting this up from the very beginning?
"Eh..." Honoka Kosaka was also stunned. "But didn't you say..."
"What did I say?" Sogo Doma blinked. "From start to finish, I never said Kazusa would join you. Of course, if she wants to join, no one can stop her..."
"..."
"By the way, Kazusa is a tsundere—a tsundere even more tsundere than Nishikino..." Before they could speak, Sogo Doma raised a finger again. "So I recommend you study up on how to deal with tsunderes. After all, even if Kazusa doesn't join, there's still the cash mach—cough, cough, little Nishikino here..."
"Who are you calling a tsundere!?" Maki Nishikino snapped.
Honoka Kosaka and the others: "..."
Heh, hehe... Should they perhaps listen to that suggestion?
"I was talking about Kazusa..." Sogo Doma said. "Other than when she's around me, she's tsundere all the time..."
The Muse members: "???"
What exactly did someone have to do to make a tsundere stop being tsundere!?
"Cough, cough..." Their confusion was quickly answered. "So that's why Ms. Yoko hates you?"
"Hey..."
"You made little Kazusa, who was barely ten, climb trees..." Kotaro Katsura shot him a sidelong glance. "Then you egged her on to jump down, saying things like, 'Kazusa's so amazing, how could she possibly get hurt jumping from a tree?'"
The Muse members: "..."
Was that even something a human being would do?
Only Honoka Kosaka thought that sounded pretty exciting!
Utaha Kasumigaoka suddenly understood why a certain golden-haired loser always lacked confidence when facing Sogo. Running into this guy as a