"..." What did he mean, even a chuunibyou could make friends? Wasn't he saying that she, Yukino, was even worse off than a chuunibyou? Still, reluctance was one thing, but when it came to refuting him, she had nothing to say. After all, she really had not had many friends before.
"By the way..." Of course, Sogo Doma did not give her a chance to speak. "People always care about the things they don't have."
"I..." Yukino Yukinoshita choked on those words. "I-I don't care..."
"Really?" Before she could finish, Sogo cut her off. "Even Shizuka Hiratsuka has a few friends, you know..."
"Hey..."
"Of course..." Just as the second daughter was about to lapse into embarrassed anger again, Sogo added, "I'm only saying this because I'm curious about something."
"Hm?" Yukino gritted her teeth. She wanted to see just how this bastard Doma intended to arrange—cough, cough... fool her this time.
"Yukinoshita, what do you think would have happened if you'd followed your original life trajectory? In other words, if you hadn't transferred to Toyogasaki and had attended Sobu High School instead—could you have made friends?"
"..." Probably not. Yukino Yukinoshita had enough self-awareness to know that. After all, if she could have made friends, she surely would have done so long ago.
"Of course..." Sogo continued, "you could say that you simply didn't want to waste time on pointless socializing..."
Yukino Yukinoshita: (#^_^)
Damn it, this bastard had said everything for her. How was she supposed to say it now?
"Still..." Sogo said, "having no friends means having no friends. Won't you end up even worse off than Shizuka Hiratsuka in the future?"
Yukino Yukinoshita: (#^_^)
What did he mean, having no friends meant having no friends? Damn it, luckily she had not argued just now, or that