"Oh my, oh my, Mom, come out and take a look! Whose pitiful child is this? She doesn't even have any friends—she can only take pictures by herself..." Sogo Doma, tattletale mama's boy, had spoken.
Rumi Tsurumi: "..." Wasn't that performance a little too exaggerated? Did this guy have no shame at all?
"Hey, you're just like that person from before—you want me to fit in with everyone too, right?" Yukino Yukinoshita: "..." What did he mean, just like that person from before? She had only...
"We're not that arrogant..." Just as the young lady was scrambling for excuses, Sogo Doma responded.
"Arrogant?"
"Forcing your own ideas onto others is arrogance in itself. Just like you said, whether I know your name or not has nothing to do with you. Then what does whether you fit in with the group have to do with me? I've always said that everyone should decide their own way of life..."
"Decide for myself?" Before he could finish, Rumi Tsurumi froze. This was the first time someone had told her that she should decide her own life, rather than forcing her to fit in with everyone...
"Of course..." Sogo Doma raised a finger again. "Come to think of it, I was a lot like you back in elementary school. Except I actively isolated other people, unlike you, who looks like..."
"Isn't that still being isolated?" Rumi Tsurumi was somewhat moved, though her expression remained cold.
"No, no, no. It's a matter of who has the initiative..." Sogo Doma could only explain, "Putting everything else aside, do I look like the kind of person who'd be isolated?"
"..." Rumi Tsurumi shook her head. "You really don't. If anything, the others..." She looked at Yukino Yukinoshita, then at Utaha Kasumigaoka, before finally fixing her gaze on