A-Admitted it!?
Yukino Yukinoshita actually acknowledged the nonsense he had made up? What the hell did she mean she really owed him—wasn't something seriously wrong here? Sogo Doma began to panic.
"Good that you know! Even though our arranged date was just an act, other people don't know that. So I was risking having my reputation ruined too..."
Yukino Yukinoshita: "???"
So this was what it meant by a villain accusing first. She finally understood—this was probably exactly what they called a villain accusing first, wasn't it?
His reputation being ruined? Never mind whether this bastard Doma even had a reputation outside in the first place—wait, she couldn't say he had none either. It was just that they were all bad reputations, right? If anyone's reputation had truly been ruined, shouldn't it have been hers? After all—
"Shinomiya, Natsukawa..."
"What?"
"Nothing..." Yukino Yukinoshita smiled rather strangely. "Just some bastard's arranged-date partners. And they were even his arranged-date partners until today..."
Though Yukino believed Sogo Doma had only accepted this string of arrangements because he couldn't stand up to his family, he had gone on so many arranged dates—and had even settled them all. Where did he get the nerve to claim his reputation had been damaged?
"You mean that?" Sogo Doma said. "Then all I can say is... sure enough, my reputation has already been completely ruined..."
"Huh?" Yukino Yukinoshita froze. Indeed, considering that he had never wanted to go on arranged dates to begin with, wasn't listing all those former partners just rubbing salt into his wounds?
But before she could say anything, Sogo Doma mocked himself, "Luckily, I never had a reputation to begin with. Speaking of which, your reputation..."
Yet this self-deprecating remark plunged Yukino Yukinoshita into silence once more. "..."
In the past, she might have