Chiba Village.
"Doma, is this what happened after you got me drunk?" Seeing that Hachiman Hikigaya and the others looked no different from usual—if anything, the atmosphere was even worse—Shizuka Hiratsuka's barely suppressed anger flared up again.
"You got drunk from drinking tea yourself..." Unfortunately, Sogo Doma failed to get the point she was making. Or rather, he simply wanted to dump the blame first.
"We'll discuss the oolong tea later..." Shizuka Hiratsuka gritted her teeth. "First, tell me what exactly is going on here!?" No wonder she was furious. Before the event, Hachiman Hikigaya had been the only socially withdrawn one, but after a day of activities, every boy had shut down. Anyone would feel miserable if they woke up in the morning to find themselves hugging someone of the same sex. If people had watched the whole thing, they would all shut down!
"I think it's pretty good, though..."
"What part of this is good!?"
"Look at how excited Ebina is..." Sogo Doma said, pointing at the bespectacled girl who seemed to see paradise everywhere she looked. That was right—the one who had watched the entire thing was her!
Besides her, Yumiko Miura stammered, "H-Hayama actually... actually with Hikigaya..." Yui Yuigahama said, "L-Little Hikki is b-broken..." Well, aside from the boys, they had become members of the shut-in club too.
"..." Shizuka Hiratsuka fell silent for a while. "So what exactly happened yesterday? And why does my face have this familiar stinging pain..." At the mention of stinging pain, Yukino Yukinoshita's eye twitched. "I won't comment on the other matters, but I do know why your face hurts..."
"Why?" Shizuka Hiratsuka froze for a moment, then brightened.
"That should count as self-defense, shouldn't it?" Having stepped forward, the second miss naturally explained herself as well. "If Hiratsuka-sensei hadn't