"Umaru nearly thought Erina had been replaced by someone else just now!"
"What the heck do you mean, replaced by someone else?" Perhaps feeling that she had no image left to maintain in front of the Doma siblings, Erina Nakiri simply gave up and started firing back. "Should I say your brain is abnormal, or that you've read too much manga?"
"Tsk, tsk..." Umaru Doma shook a finger. "Who told Erina to have such a powerful aura today? The Erina I know was clearly..."
"No matter what, I was one of the Elite Ten..."
"My Onii-chan was too! But didn't he still get expelled...?"
"Was your brother really expelled? Could someone who got expelled stand in front of everyone and say he'd protect someone?"
"Expulsion is expulsion, and protecting someone is protecting someone. Those are two different concepts, okay? It's like how a doctor can operate on a patient but can't operate on himself..."
"Hehe, then I'll represent Totsuki and revoke the decision to expel your brother. Can he come back to school?"
"..." After thinking it over carefully, Umaru raised a finger. "He'd probably say that you people chased him away when you wanted to, and now that you want him back, it's too late..."
"So you know that too?" Erina Nakiri snarked again. "Even though he was the one who left whenever he felt like it..."
"Cough, cough..." Perhaps sensing the resentment overflowing from the other girl, Umaru regretted bringing up her Onii-chan. "Erina, how about we talk about you and Hisako instead?"
"..." At that, Erina Nakiri froze again, and her resentment somehow grew even stronger. "Who was it that said it was just a joke?"
"It was a joke at first, but after seeing Erina's reaction, I got really curious."
"My reaction? What reaction?"
"Your reaction