"Who the hell gets closer to someone else over something like that!?" For some reason, Shizuka Hiratsuka looked extremely agitated. Well, it actually wasn't that strange when she thought about it—after all, peeing in the shower...
"Well, I wouldn't," Sogo Doma said. Of course, he wasn't nearly as agitated as she was.
At that, Shizuka Hiratsuka finally wore an expression that said—
"Are you fucking kidding me?" "Then why would you say something like that?"
"I was just giving an example. Don't you think it makes things easier to understand?"
"How does that make anything easier to understand!?"
"Tsk, tsk..." At that, Sogo Doma chuckled and raised a finger. "It's really quite straightforward. Most people think that many embarrassing things are things only they do. Once they learn that others do the same, they develop a strange sense of resonance..."
"Fallacious logic! That's absolutely fallacious logic!" Shizuka Hiratsuka was still highly agitated.
"I have proof!"
"What?"
"Ms. Hiratsuka, haven't you noticed that Ebina has changed?"
"..." Of course she had. With that idiot-like expression on her face, it would have been hard not to notice. Wait, Shizuka Hiratsuka seemed to realize something. "So Ebina turned out like this because of you?"
"Not at all..." Sogo Doma wasn't the sort to claim credit. Ahem. In fact, after Yumiko Miura and Yui Yuigahama chased after Ebina, she had struggled for a long time before saying, "Yumiko, am I... am I really embarrassing? Being friends with someone as embarrassing as me..."
"Do you think I care about that?" Sure enough, everyone had two sides. Though Miura's personality wasn't exactly great, she could still be accepting in front of her friends—just as expected of a social butterfly.
"But to outsiders, I... I... Just like that Doma guy said, I don't want other people to