"Don't forget, Yukinoshita and Kasumigaoka have that cool, aloof persona..." Though they looked nothing like that whenever they bickered in the Service Club, outsiders probably saw them that way, right?
"Did they have friends before?" Masuzu Natsukawa stole Sogo Doma's line.
"And do you have friends?"
"..." This proved that stealing someone else's line wasn't so easy. Masuzu Natsukawa choked up, and only after a long while did she speak again. "But Yamauchi has friends..."
Before she could finish, Sogo Doma glanced at her and said, "What does that have to do with you?"
"Do you really not understand?" Masuzu Natsukawa said. "Those of us who never had friends to begin with can ignore how others judge us, but Yamauchi and the others have to interact and socialize with people..."
"Stop!" Sogo Doma cut her off again. "Did she ever say she cared about that?"
"Even though they haven't said anything, but..."
"Then there you have it." Sogo Doma interrupted for the umpteenth time. "I didn't know Natsukawa was so considerate of others."
"No..." Masuzu Natsukawa said. "It's just basic putting myself in someone else's shoes..."
"Is it?"
"Of course..."
"Then you put yourself in the wrong shoes..." Sogo Doma raised a finger.
"Hm?"
"Are friends really such inconvenient things?" Sogo Doma shook his raised finger. "Natsukawa, would you say something to Yamauchi, or even cut ties with her, just because her friends had a bad reputation...?"
"Yamauchi isn't you!"
Sogo Doma: -_-
What was that supposed to mean? So if it were him, she could just cut ties with him whenever she wanted?
"Yamauchi isn't you either. So what makes you think the friends Yamauchi made would say something to her because of you, or even cut ties with her?"
"..." That made so much sense that Masuzu Natsukawa