"Well, good intentions are good intentions, but sometimes, good intentions that lead to bad outcomes are even worse than deliberately doing bad things..." Sogo Doma still wore that battle-tested smile. Under the illusion cast by that smile, not only Miura, but even Tobe and the others, who had once thought him dangerous, began to find the guy before them exceptionally sincere and reasonable!
"After all, when people who deliberately do bad things face punishment, they know they did something wrong. But when people with good intentions cause harm face punishment, there's a very good chance they won't even know what they did wrong..." Sogo Doma's tone remained calm. The more he acted that way, the more harmless Miura and the others found him. Correspondingly, Hayato... Well, it actually wasn't surprising. Back in elementary school, Sogo Doma had given Yukinoshita Haruno a setback with nothing but a smile. Though Haruno had only been a middle schooler then, a young lady raised from childhood as her family's heir was hardly comparable to a blonde girl and the rest!
If even a smile that made Yukinoshita Haruno concede defeat couldn't fool this bunch of students, there truly would be no justice in the world!
And Yukinoshita Haruno wasn't the only one who had conceded defeat. Why else had Kaguya Shinomiya been tricked into spraying cola all over her own face? Wasn't it because Sogo Doma had looked completely harmless? Even after seeing her big sister get stumped—and being put through the trolley problem herself—the second Shinomiya daughter had still kindly warned him not to talk to her, or he would get into trouble... Then there were Mashiro, Eriri, Touma... It could be said that if Hachiman Hikigaya hadn't thought there was something wrong with Sogo Doma from the very beginning, even he might