Yukino Yukinoshita: "..."
What was the difference between a snow woman and a bastard?
"Can I take it to mean that whenever you call me a snow woman, you're actually calling me a bastard?"
"..." The moment she finished speaking, Sogo Doma felt his eye twitch. "You're focusing on the wrong thing..."
"I know..."
"Huh?"
"I've never actively tried to hurt anyone..."
"..." Looking at Yukino Yukinoshita, whose face had somehow turned utterly serious, Sogo Doma fell silent. After a while, though, he smiled. "I get it. The difference between a snow woman and a bastard is that one has never actively tried to hurt anyone from beginning to end, while the other deliberately makes people feel miserable..."
Before he could finish, Yukino Yukinoshita said wistfully, "That's more or less it."
"No need for 'more or less.' Let's just say that's how it is..." Sogo Doma said. "But even if you've never actively tried to hurt anyone, people can still be hurt because of you..."
"???" What did that have to do with her?
"Because you're just that outstanding, Yukinoshita..."
"I won't deny that..." Yukino Yukinoshita was still as self-confident as ever. "But if someone gets hurt merely because I'm outstanding, that can only mean..."
"It doesn't mean anything at all!"
"Hm?"
"After all, other people's children are countless people's childhood nightmares and shadows. It's perfectly normal for them to be seen as enemies, isn't it?"
"Heh..." Before Sogo Doma could finish, Yukino Yukinoshita let out a cold laugh.
Yet before she could say anything, Sogo Doma continued, "Don't make that face, Yukinoshita. Do you really think you're any different from those people?"
The moment he finished speaking, the second daughter frowned. "What do you mean?"
"Tsk, tsk..." Sogo Doma chuckled lightly. "Isn't there an 'other people's child' right beside