"If even you yourself didn't want to talk to or befriend someone like you, what right did you have to ask others to become your friends, Yukinoshita?"
"..." Faced with Sogo Doma's soul-searching question, Yukino Yukinoshita didn't know what to say. After a long while, she turned her face away again and murmured, "I-I never asked anyone to become my friend..."
"Oh? You said you never asked anyone to become your friend, so why did you say it was enough as long as the people you cared about understood you? May I ask who exactly these 'people you care about' were?"
"..." Yukino Yukinoshita fell silent again for a while before saying, "B-but that still doesn't prove I'm selfish..."
"Huh?" Sogo Doma replied, "You didn't even have anyone you cared about. You were just living for yourself, in your own little world. If that wasn't selfish..."
"..." How was that selfish?
Before Yukino Yukinoshita could speak, however, Sogo Doma said, "I can find other evidence, too..."
"What else?"
"The evidence is still that line you said: 'It's enough as long as the people I care about understand me'..."
"Hm?"
"Yukinoshita, don't you think you were shirking responsibility?" Looking at the confused Yukino Yukinoshita, Sogo Doma explained, "You pushed all responsibility onto other people. Since no one was someone you cared about, even if everyone misunderstood you, you weren't the one in the wrong—the world was!"
"..." Yukino Yukinoshita wanted to refute him, but after thinking it over carefully, she didn't know what to say. After all, she didn't know whether, as he believed, she had been placing all the responsibility and blame on others.
"Come to think of it..." Sogo Doma continued, "That whole 'I'm not wrong, the world is' line—wasn't that just an upgraded version of eighth-grader syndrome? Sophomore