They were still in Chiba Village... except the location had changed to the girls' dormitory, which Sogo Doma found deeply dissatisfying. Wasn't this supposed to be a training camp?
A training camp, a training camp—could it still be called a training camp if the boys and girls were separated? Of course, if any other boy had such thoughts, Sogo would probably beat him to death. But now that Sogo Doma himself was being kept outside... well, it was seriously annoying.
It wasn't as if he absolutely had to do something in the girls' dormitory. He just wasn't used to staying in the same room as boys...
"Haa..." Shizuka Hiratsuka exhaled the smoke in her mouth out the window before turning back to look at the still-unconscious Yukino. Setting aside her exquisite Sleeping Beauty-like features, the way the girl occasionally frowned made it seem as though she was pursuing what was right even in her dreams.
In the past, Shizuka might have felt heartache at the sight of the girl like this. But now, she thought of Sogo Doma's words: "If Yukinoshita stopped pursuing what was right and became like an ordinary girl, talking about makeup, idols, romance, and so on, would she still be Yukinoshita?" Shizuka knew the answer—how could that possibly still be Yukino?
Yukino was proud. Otherwise, she would not have chased after Haruno's back. As the second daughter of the Yukinoshita family, although she had no inheritance rights, she could have easily lived under her family's protection as a wealthy idler.
Wasn't being a salted fish great? If it were Sogo Doma, he would definitely say, "That's the real deal!" But Yukino... Shizuka suddenly recalled the Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs that Sogo had mentioned. It was not exactly as though he had slapped her in the face,