Of course, I didn't really care what others thought of me... No matter what others thought, Sogo Doma believed that as long as he acted righteous enough, there was still a chance to clear his name. "But if little Rumi were misunderstood as being with some kind of freak, then wouldn't she..."
Rumi Tsurumi: "..."
She had never seen anyone so shameless. It was bad enough that he used her as an excuse, but he even...
Seeing Sogo Doma looking as though he had been grievously wronged, Utaha Kasumigaoka felt her eye twitch again. She didn't suspect that Sogo was that kind of freak—she suspected he might fool little Rumi Tsurumi silly. There was precedent for that!
As far as she knew, the young girls Sogo had fooled—or rather, teased—included Yukinoshita and Eriri...
Adding Rumi Tsurumi to that list didn't seem like much of a problem, did it? That was why the more righteous Sogo Doma acted, the more suspicious Utaha found him!
"Little girl, can you tell your sister what you were doing here with Sogo just now?"
Sogo Doma: "???"
He felt that Utaha Kasumigaoka had changed. She actually ignored his performance and turned to ask someone else. Damn it...
But what she didn't know was that this little loli was far too proud. There was no way she would...
"He was trying to make up for having just snatched..." Just as he was inwardly gloating, Rumi Tsurumi rolled her eyes and said.
Sogo Doma: "..."
What happened to being proud? No, that wasn't the point—how could she lie!? Sure enough, trust between people had vanished...
"Hahaha..." Fortunately, he had weathered enough storms that he wouldn't capsize in such a tiny gutter. He laughed loudly a few times, forcibly cutting off Rumi Tsurumi's words. Then, in a voice