What Can Make People Believe? Answer: What the Person You Can't Afford to Offend Says...

The countryside had its own scenery: babbling streams, mountains in all shapes and sizes, clusters of trees straining upward... Unfortunately, Hayato and the others had no mind to appreciate any of it.

"Everyone, give me your thoughts. How can we get someone who's been isolated to fit into the group?" After Yumiko Miura backed down, Hayato Hayama spoke up as well.

"..." Helping others might bring a so-called sense of fulfillment, but being forced into it was still unpleasant. Even though Miura and Hayama had backed down, Tobe and the others, whose families were less well-off, remained unconvinced. After all, the more you knew, the more you understood what it meant to be in awe.

To Tobe and the others, the Doma Family was practically Chiba's celebrity family, wasn't it?

It was more or less on par with the Yukinoshita Family, but no one from the Yukinoshita Family had ever been as arrogant as that guy just now!

"Tobe, everyone, please..." As if he knew what they were thinking, Hayato Hayama pleaded with them sincerely.

"Ebina, Yuigahama..." The blonde Yumiko did the same. After learning Sogo Doma's identity, she didn't think his talk about isolation had been a joke. Or rather, she had no desire to test whether he could really take things that far, given Sogo Doma's reputation as a villain...

"Yumiko..." Unlike boys like Tobe, the bespectacled Ebina truly considered Miura a friend. Seeing the pleading expression on her face, she said, "I understand, Yumiko. I'll help..."

"Huh?" Yui Yuigahama froze for a moment before adding, "I will too..." Just like that, the friendship between the girls overwhelmed the boys' resistance. After all, men liked challenges, and when it came to Sogo Doma, before they had actually been brutally beaten down, Tobe and the others—or rather, Tobe himself—refused