"Are you missing the point?" Sogo Doma briefly wondered if he had fallen out of touch with the times. His incredible knife skills had earned him nothing but a comment about not having friends...
"Who would deliberately do something like that?" Rumi Tsurumi had her own reasons.
"Me, one of the Totsuki Elite Ten..." Sogo Doma smiled benevolently. "Do you understand what the Elite Ten are? We're at the pinnacle of chefs. Is it strange for me to have skills like that? Hmm? Did you think I would—"
"But aren't you just an ordinary high school student that Teacher Hiratsuka brought in to help? She didn't say anything about Totsuki..."
"..." Sogo Doma froze before saying, "Can't I have transferred schools?"
"Why?"
"What do you mean, why?"
"Why did you transfer schools?"
"Because I wanted to. Why are there so many whys?" Would Sogo Doma admit that he had done it so he could slack off with his imouto?
Impossible!
"Was it because you couldn't make any friends?"
"How did you connect that to friends too? Let me tell you, I'm one of the Elite Ten. Do ordinary students like you know what the Elite Ten represent? You don't! If I wanted to, I could even make students drop out unconditionally..." Rumi Tsurumi: "..." That was way, way too exaggerated, wasn't it?
Did those Elite Ten really have that much authority? But...
"What does having authority have to do with being able to make friends?" the little girl asked, shooting him a sidelong glance.
"Tsk, tsk..." Sogo Doma smiled. "Teacher Hiratsuka took you away before I could finish what I was saying. Did you forget? I told you that ever since I became strong, the people around me had become increasingly kind and pleasant..."
"Getting stronger?" Rumi Tsurumi first looked