Sogo Doma had no idea what Yukino Yukinoshita was overthinking, or else he would have had to complain, "So 'yasashii' really is the answer to everything, huh?"
Still, Yukino Yukinoshita had something to say about that—if it was not because he was yasashii, then why had he specifically used a scumbag as his example? There had clearly been so many other examples he could have used, hadn't there?
Of course, Yukino Yukinoshita had her own answer to that question: "The reason someone specifically used a scumbag as an example was because he wanted to subtly imply that he was a scumbag himself. After all, I had used a salted fish to allude to someone earlier..."
Uh, using a salted fish did not even count as an allusion anymore. Ahem... Even though Sogo Doma knew perfectly well that she had been using him as an example, he not only did not refute her but even expanded on it. Wasn't he implying that he was a scumbag? Wasn't he trying to cut off her affection for him?
Fine, trying to cut off her affection did sound rather excessive. After all, if one heard in isolation that some boy kept trying to sever a girl's feelings for him, people would surely wonder just how detestable that girl had to be for the boy to go that far.
But once she considered the premise that he could not decide his own marriage, Yukino Yukinoshita suddenly thought of a poem:
Best not to meet at all, Thus one need not fall in love.
Best not to know each other at all, Thus one need not long for one another.
Best not to be together at all, Thus one need not owe one another.
Fourth...
Best not to encounter each other at all, Thus one need