In this country, where small social circles held an incredibly strong sway, transfer students were usually the ones who got isolated. Thus, for many people, unless it was absolutely necessary, they would not transfer schools even if they moved to another city—they would at most wake up a few hours earlier to take the train.
By the way, that was why Yukinoshita Haruno had asked Shizuka Hiratsuka to look after Yukino Yukinoshita. Of course, it was also a key reason behind Hiratsuka's decision to transfer jobs—being a transfer student was already one condition for getting isolated, and combined with Yukinoshita's personality issues, if there was no one capable of shielding her, who knew how badly she might have been bullied!
That was what the passionate female teacher had thought. However, after Shizuka Hiratsuka transferred to Toyogasaki, she found that Yukino's supposed predicament had never materialized. On the contrary, she had made quite a few friends... It was absurd!
Still, Shizuka Hiratsuka was no fool. After observing carefully, she realized that Toyogasaki was not the absurd part—the absurd part was Sogo Doma himself...
"Shizuka Hiratsuka, so many transfer students can make friends, and some can even become friends with me. So I'm really wondering, what direct connection is there between Dead Fish Eyes not being able to make friends and his getting into a car accident? Then again, he clearly just became friends with me..." He was still saying absurd things.
"Looking at it this way, he doesn't seem like someone who can't make friends."
"..." So this guy's social skills were maxed out, weren't they? Hold it right there—Shizuka Hiratsuka suddenly realized something. "You became friends with Hikigaya? In that little time..."
"Doesn't meeting someone once still count as becoming friends?"
"..."
"As they say, strangers the first time, familiar