I was wrong, but I'd keep doing it in the future—perhaps that was a common failing shared by most people, and Shizuka Hiratsuka was no exception.
Although she had thought long and hard about Sogo Doma's words and realized her own arrogance, deeply ingrained beliefs still influenced her. Especially when it came to Yukino Yukinoshita, she still wanted to do something for her.
It couldn't be helped. After all, humans were emotional creatures! So, when it came to Yukino Yukinoshita and her friends, Shizuka Hiratsuka had instinctively stepped in. This so-called exchange between girls was, bluntly put, because she wanted Yukinoshita to face her own feelings. Although Utaha had already teased Yukinoshita's attitude with the word
"tsundere," as a qualified corporate slave, Shizuka Hiratsuka naturally knew that
"tsundere" was not a good thing. Honestly, she thought Yukinoshita was already lucky to have made friends with her personality, even if they were that brat named Sogo and Utaha, that black-hearted student who could stab someone in the back at any time.
So, she didn't want the two of them to part ways because of Yukinoshita's insufficiently honest personality... Which was why she had suddenly suggested an exchange between girls... Which was why an old woman pushing thirty like her had no choice but to... In short, it was all to deepen the bond between Yukinoshita and Utaha. Shizuka Hiratsuka had come to understand it: if one called these people friends, they spent far more time screwing each other over than chatting happily together. Yet if one said they were not friends, it felt as though they had long grown accustomed to each other's presence.
And things had gone just as Shizuka Hiratsuka expected. Utaha might have shown no mercy when backstabbing someone, but she truly cared about Yukinoshita. Otherwise, how would