Friendship Standards / The Drama Queen Returns

"What did you want to say?" Perhaps she had understood what Sogo Doma meant, because Yukino Yukinoshita replied noncommittally. "Yukinoshita, do you have any standards when it comes to friends?" "What?" "What kind of person do you think can become a friend? Or, put another way, what kind of person would you absolutely never become friends with..." Before he could finish, Yukino turned her icy gaze on Sogo again. What kind of person would she absolutely never become friends with? Wasn't that obvious? Someone like him, of course... But before the second daughter could speak, Sogo said, "Criminals, perverts, cultists..." Yukino Yukinoshita: -_-! Umm... Well, that was certainly true. But that meant she could no longer say she would absolutely never be friends with him. After all, the examples Sogo had given were not merely unpleasant people—they were utterly vile! He himself might be a little lazy, a little infuriating, and a little unreliable, but utterly vile? The second daughter didn't think he was quite there yet. "And sanctimonious do-gooders..." Sogo continued. Yet that left Yukino at a loss. "The Holy Mother!?" Hey, hey, they had just been talking about utterly vile people, and suddenly it had become the Holy Mother? No matter how she looked at it, that had nothing to do with being utterly vile, did it? Or rather, this should be... "What? Don't tell me you don't know what a sanctimonious do-gooder is..." "Doma..." Yukino said, "Are you trying to make things up again? The Holy Mother in Christianity..." "Say you're walking down the street with a friend and see a homeless person. Before you can say anything, your friend tells you, 'That homeless person is so pitiful. Why don't we help them?' What do you think of that friend?" "..." Yukino, who had been interrupted, had