"..." Was the Service Club really a club founded to help others? Yukino Yukinoshita wanted to say yes, but for some reason, though she opened her mouth, not a sound came out.
"In my opinion..." Fortunately, Sogo Doma did not dwell on her speechlessness. "The Service Club is nothing more than the product of your running away!"
"..." Running... away? Perhaps—Yukino Yukinoshita found herself unable to refute him.
"I have to say..." Sogo Doma continued, "the saying that running away may be shameful, but it works really is a universal truth."
Yukino Yukinoshita: (#^_^)
Fine, she admitted that she had been trying to run away, but wasn't "running away may be shameful, but it works" just too insulting!?
But before she could say anything, Sogo Doma said, "Yukinoshita, you may look like an untouchable flower on a high peak, but you actually want to make friends too, don't you?"
"Huh?" Yukino Yukinoshita froze at his words. How had the topic suddenly jumped to her wanting friends?
"Don't bother denying it. I have proof..."
"What proof!?" Yukino Yukinoshita was startled.
"The proof is still the Service Club..."
"Hm?" What did he mean, the Service Club was proof? She had merely started a club...
"Doesn't the Service Club help people based on the principle of teaching a man to fish rather than giving him a fish? The goal is to make those receiving help become better, right?"
"What's wrong with that?"
"Of course there's something wrong..." Sogo Doma smiled again. "Didn't you say that the more outstanding someone is, the harder their life tends to be? If so, why does the Service Club make people even more outstanding? Is it so that those receiving help can live even harder lives?"
"Heh..." Yukino Yukinoshita had something to say about that. "Because I don't