"Is that funny?" Perhaps embarrassment and irritation were no longer enough to describe Yukino Yukinoshita's feelings at that moment, because a familiar icy aura rose from her once more.
Yet this change made Sogo Doma feel a rare flicker of guilt. "Hm?"
"Do you find it amusing to mock other people's flaws and watch them make fools of themselves?"
"..." Sogo Doma pondered for quite a while before chuckling awkwardly. "It's not that bad..."
"Not that bad?" Before he could finish, the icy Yukino Yukinoshita suddenly smiled. There was not the slightest warmth in that smile. "Then perhaps I should congratulate you? Congratulations on seeing me make a fool of myself..."
"Hold on a second..." Sogo Doma could not help himself. "What's there to congratulate me for? It's not like this is the first time I've seen you embarrass yourself..."
Yukino Yukinoshita: (#^_^)
Was that really the point? Why was there a bastard like Doma in this world—couldn't he see she was angry?
Unfortunately, a certain someone failed to GET the grief and indignation in her heart, and continued, "Like when I said you were utterly ordinary..."
"SOGO DOMA!!!" The icy second daughter finally snapped.
"Well..." What was puzzling was that, faced with Yukino Yukinoshita snapping, Sogo Doma was no longer intimidated. As for why? "Looks like you really have gone back to normal."
"Eh?"
"Yukinoshita..." Wasn't this just repeatedly hopping along the edge of death and testing the limits like crazy? For Sogo Doma, whose hobby was courting death, it was not so much second nature as it was something he had grown accustomed to. "You've been strange lately. Not only have you been avoiding us, but even when I said you were utterly ordinary, all you did was say, 'Yes, yes, yes...'
"That wasn't like you at all.