"Why?" Once again, Face-Reading Technique was not the same as Mind Reading, so Sogo Doma had no idea what Yukino Yukinoshita was imagining. Still, there was a reason he had gone off on a tangent: "Yukinoshita, how do you view talent?"
"Hey..." Was he about to derail the conversation again?
"Ahem..." Before she could say anything, Sogo coughed twice. "Don't look so exhausted. I'm just curious about what you think of talent..."
"Huh?" Wait! D-Doma that bastard was curious about what she thought? Not talent itself...
"Think about it..." Just as Yukino was spacing out, Sogo continued, "Some people can put in a little effort and achieve results others can hardly hope to reach, while some people, no matter how hard they work..."
"That's wrong!"
"What?"
"In my view, most people's so-called effort is nothing more than lip service. Some people do not even meet the most basic standard of effort, yet they blame their failures on talent..." Having said that, Yukino paused, then subconsciously glanced at someone.
Whether it was academics, sports, cooking, or anything else, Doma's achievements were clearly so outstanding. Why did she always overlook that, even seeing him as a lazy bum?
Was it because he usually acted as though he had nothing to do, idling around all day? No, that was not it! Yukino suddenly realized that she regarded Sogo Doma as a lazy bum entirely because, faced with his exceptional accomplishments, she could not find any direction in which to catch up to him!
A monster!
Yukino had subconsciously thought of that word. Wait... Had she always regarded him as a monster in the depths of her mind?
Wait, then why had she always ignored that? Was it because she believed humans could not compare themselves with monsters? So, as long as she treated