"That's just what you think. I told you, I'm not the way you imagine..."
"Well..." Faced with Yukino Yukinoshita's patient explanation, it was only because the person standing before her was Sogo Doma. If it had been anyone else, she would have already torn them apart with her sharp tongue. Yet not only did he ignore her explanation, he even cut her off. "I was complimenting you, Yukinoshita. Don't you want to be the protagonist?"
"Not at all..."
"I see. So that's why you envy me, someone who can't even survive three chapters?"
"..." Yukino Yukinoshita fell silent for a while before finally speaking as if she had made up her mind. "You... Why are you always like this?"
"Hm?"
"Do you really want to be a bastard that badly?"
"Hey..."
"Obviously, so many things could be resolved in better ways, but you..."
"..." Hearing that, Sogo Doma, who had been silent, could no longer hold it in. "I don't know what you're talking about... Oh, right..."
Though changing the subject was an old-fashioned trick, it worked!
"Do you really not know what I'm talking about?" However, Yukino Yukinoshita had known him for quite some time. He could usually muddle through, but not now. "Let's talk about Azami Nakiri, then. Do you dare say you didn't have an easier way to make him accept the outcome?"
"..."
"Even if you had gone through with the Shokugeki like he suggested, you could have dealt with him effortlessly, couldn't you?"
"..."
"Yet you chose the method that would make people the least willing to accept it—using your power to bully others..."
"Don't you think this is more straightforward?"
"Straightforward?" Yukino Yukinoshita said, "If it was just a matter of using influence to force him to leave, then the Nakiri Family could have