"It had nothing to do with Hayato."
"But didn't you say..." Shizuka Hiratsuka raised an eyebrow. She felt like she was back in the game—Sogo had finally started contradicting himself...
"Ms. Hiratsuka, who said a leader's words have to be conveyed by the leader himself? As long as Hayato showed an attitude of respectful distance—or simply ignored him—everyone else would naturally interpret it as isolating Hikigaya..."
"How is that possible!?" Shizuka Hiratsuka retorted. "Are they all idiots?"
"That's why I said a group's intelligence is lower than an individual's. Remember what I just told you? Those people had already taken Hayato's shape. They liked everything Hayato liked and hated everything Hayato hated. Since Hayato could not even be bothered to deal with Hikigaya, naturally neither could they... Now that Hikigaya refused to take Hayato's shape, he naturally seemed out of place among them. In fact, I don't think there was anything wrong with what he did. Yet Ms. Hiratsuka insisted on making Hikigaya take Hayato's shape too..."
"But haven't you said that outstanding people are surrounded by outstanding people?"
"Yes, but once outstanding people gather together, they still share the traits of a group. Take the Service Club Yukinoshita and I were in, for example..."
"Hm?" Was he finally going to address it directly?
"If Yukinoshita really became the Service Club's leader..."
"She's already the club president!"
"But we haven't joined..." Sogo Doma said with a shrug.
"..." Shizuka Hiratsuka's eye twitched. So was that why Yukinoshita still had no club members?
Umm...
"Fine. What would happen if Yukinoshita really became the leader?"
"Ms. Hiratsuka, haven't you figured it out yet? If Yukinoshita became the Service Club's leader, then the justice and correctness she upheld would become the justice and correctness we acknowledged. If numbers represented truth, Ms. Hiratsuka, what