Back then, Hachiman Hikigaya never really understood why social butterflies could have so many friends—until he met Sogo Doma... That guy was absolutely on an even higher level of being a social butterfly than Hayato Hayama!
For one thing, at least Hachiman Hikigaya did not feel so powerless when facing Hayato Hayama. Even a shut-in like him would instinctively retort because of the other's influence. Ahem... Well, the most important thing was that Hachiman Hikigaya found himself not quite as repulsed—probably because what the other guy said seemed to be true?
Or perhaps, as he said, they were merely acquaintances who had just met, so there was no need to take things so seriously? Even so, he had ultimately struck up a conversation with him!
Ever since starting high school, aside from being forced by a certain teacher to establish a club similar to the
"Odd Jobs Club," and helping Yuigahama because of it, he had never spoken to strangers—or even classmates... Just as Hachiman Hikigaya was inwardly surprised that he too could make an exception because of someone else, the main group came into view ahead—Shizuka Hiratsuka still had some sense of shame, after all, and had not shoved everything onto her human tools. At the very least, she had stepped forward when assigning tasks. Utaha Kasumigaoka and Yukino Yukinoshita stood off to the side with their auras in full force, alongside a certain blonde lion—cough, blonde girl. The two of them looked just like some kind of war god!
It had to be said that leaders always liked to say they would only take
"a couple of words." Even though Sogo Doma and the others were strolling along at an unhurried pace, the hot-blooded female teacher had only just finished explaining things by the time they joined the