Humans are social animals. Aside from a very small number of exceptional people, most wanted to make friends. Some even considered making a hundred friends their dream!
Based on that, aside from the necessary wariness, most people would not refuse to interact with others. This was what people meant by "strangers the first time, familiar the second"—when meeting for the first time, most people were guarded, but by the second meeting, that guard would drop, and they might even feel as though it was fate.
That was why most people complained about overly familiar strangers, yet most wished they could be one themselves! After all, those friendly strangers had far more friends than the people complaining about them... The logic was simple: when people craved friendship, if someone proactively stepped into their world, they might resist the first time, relax the second, and by the third... once they became accustomed to that person entering their world, was becoming friends really so difficult?
Take Yukino Yukinoshita, for example. When she first mentioned Sogo Doma, her teeth practically itched with irritation. Yet in less than half a month, she had grown used to his unreliability, even to him calling her flat. Sometimes, she even unconsciously spoke up for Sogo Doma... The young lady wanted friends too!
Unfortunately, most people had been scared off by her coldness. Only Sogo Doma did not care. As someone who had worked in society, Yukinoshita's sharp tongue was nothing—when a boss berated a subordinate, did the subordinate dare to leave?
No! Did they dare to talk back? No... Compared to that, what was Yukinoshita's sharp tongue? Forget anything else—did he dare to leave?
He did! Did he dare to talk back? He did! Utaha Kasumigaoka had even turned bickering with Yukinoshita into a source of entertainment! That