When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you...
So, while having someone else's embarrassing past was satisfying, it was also a double-edged sword that could hurt you. Take chuunibyou cringe history, for example—
Chuunibyou was an illness that healed itself once one reached a certain age, so no one could prove whether they had ever suffered from it. Thus, chuunibyou was usually diagnosed by those around them.
The question was, what did Sogo Doma look like to others when he held a whole collection of chuunibyou books and notebooks such as Angel Investigation Report and Black Magic Codex? That was right—a textbook chuunibyou patient...
Although Sogo Doma did not care how others saw him, that did not mean...
"Pfft..." Eriri Sawamura was the first to lose it. "Hehehe, Angel... Sogo, so you really did have a chuunibyou phase?"
Well, not caring was one thing, but that did not mean he was willing to be mocked!
"What's wrong with that?" Fortunately, Sogo Doma was no ordinary person. An ordinary person would have covered their face in a situation like this, but he remained perfectly calm. "I already told you that I had my own chuunibyou experiences..."
That was a lie. How could Sogo Doma, who had lived two lives, possibly have suffered from chuunibyou? This was merely a tactic of retreating in order to advance. It was like a drunk person claiming they were not drunk—who would believe them? On the other hand, if a drinker said they were drunk, they were probably sober.
The same applied to chuunibyou. If you got ahead of everyone else and admitted that you had once suffered from chuunibyou, most people would only think you were joking. After all, to someone cured of chuunibyou, their chuunibyou history was equivalent to embarrassing