"Other people wouldn't..." Yui Yuigahama grew less and less confident as she spoke. As a girl who cared about her appearance, no one understood better than her how tempting photo editing could be. Otherwise, Hachiman Hikigaya would never have mistaken her for Bikini...
"Haa..." Rumi Tsurumi, who had always been somewhat precocious, sighed instinctively. "As expected, relationships between people are always so complicated..."
"They're not complicated..." Before she could finish, Yui Yuigahama spoke up again. "Even if I were being used just to make a friend look better, I-I..." Rumi Tsurumi: "..." Before the little girl could speak, Yui Yuigahama said earnestly, "No, I should say that real friends wouldn't use the other person to make themselves look better!" Her utterly sincere tone left Rumi Tsurumi stunned. "..." Real friends?
"Arrog—" Sogo Doma was about to refute her again. But the moment he opened his mouth, Utaha Kasumigaoka and Yukino Yukinoshita both spoke at once. "Sogo..."
"Maybe I have the arrogance that Little Sogo mentioned too..." Yui Yuigahama said. "That's why I still want to ask—Rumi, do you really not want to be with everyone?"
"..." Rumi Tsurumi opened her mouth, but in the end, she did not answer the question. Instead, she silently stood up and left the place where she had only just found shelter.
Watching the little girl's small, frail back, Yui Yuigahama looked utterly dejected. "..." Had she done something wrong?
"Sigh, that's why I said it was arrogance..." Sogo Doma said gloomily. That little brat had run off too quickly—he had not even gotten her to take the bait he had prepared!
Before he could even finish speaking, Utaha Kasumigaoka and Yukino Yukinoshita coldly said again, "Sogo!"
"I get it, I'll shut up..." Hachiman Hikigaya: "..." Well, he still could not make sense of the