"I don't deny that..." Though the second young lady was grumbling inwardly, she said aloud, "So..."
"So?"
"I'll try to make up for your losses some other way..."
"Some other way?" Hearing this, Sogo Doma panicked again. He blurted out, "Don't! Yukinoshita, what value do you have besides money right now?"
Yukino Yukinoshita: (#^_^)
What did he mean, what value did she have besides money? He made it sound as though she was worthless in every other respect, not even worth as much as that bit of pocket money.
"Hold it right there..." Before she could say anything, however, Sogo Doma said, "Don't tell me you're going to say, 'I have no way to repay you, so I can only give myself to you,' right?"
"Huh?" Yukino was stunned for a moment. After a while, she looked at his disdainful face and said, "What kind of daydream are you having? Even if you really did help me, at most I'd repay you by serving as an ox or horse in my next life..."
Sogo Doma: "..."
This girl had indeed been led astray.
"Am I not handsome enough?" Well, who knew who had once told her, "When most girls encounter a handsome benefactor, they'll say, 'I have no way to repay you, so I can only give myself to you.' But when their benefactor is ugly, they'll say, 'I have no way to repay you, so I can only serve as an ox or horse in my next life to repay you'"?
Clearly, Yukino Yukinoshita was using that as a veiled jab at him.
"You..." However, looking at that face that became more pleasing to the eye the longer she looked at it, the "proper" Yukinoshita could not bring herself to deny it against her conscience. She could only say,