"Sogo Doma!!!" Yukino Yukinoshita was probably genuinely angry. It couldn't be helped—some bastard was just too infuriating, insisting on tying that child named Rumi Tsurumi to her family, wasn't he? Actually, making that connection wasn't the problem. What was excessive was—
Something that was clearly completely baseless had been made to sound as if it were real. If someone who didn't know the truth heard it, they might actually believe it!
"See..." However, her anger had yet to reach the point of moving Sogo Doma. He was still talking away.
"I laid so much groundwork, and you're still this angry. It's like when a boy arranged to meet a girl but missed the date because he got hit by a car. If you told the girl outright that the boy got hit because he was on his way to meet her, she'd definitely feel guilty. But if you first told her the boy didn't come because he'd had a change of heart..."
"???" What kind of analogy was that? How were those things alike? Besides, that boy was way too pitiful, wasn't he? Not only did he get hit by a car, he also had to be accused of having a change of heart.
"Of course..." Before Yukino Yukinoshita could speak, Sogo Doma continued as though he had guessed what she was thinking. "Even if you say that, after some time, the girl will learn that the boy was hit by a car. But with the possibility of him having a change of heart established beforehand, even after learning that he was in a car accident, the girl would only say...
Luckily, he was only in a car accident."
"How could there possibly be a 'luckily' like that?" Yukino Yukinoshita was still too inexperienced. "That was a car accident..."
"Huh?"