"Hasn't the flower on the high peak already fallen into the mortal world?" Well, no matter how shameless Sogo Doma was, he couldn't take back the jab he had just made. Wouldn't that be slapping himself in the face? Though it wasn't as if he hadn't slapped himself in the face before, those times had all had their reasons...
But this time was different. He was trying to make Yukino Yukinoshita hate him by putting on an oily, teacher-like... side. Of course, under normal circumstances, slapping himself in the face would also lower the other person's opinion of him. But was this a normal situation? He had just teased Yukinoshita. If he slapped himself in the face now, then that teasing would really just become teasing.
"Hm?" Yukino Yukinoshita didn't really understand what Sogo Doma was thinking about.
"Can a flower on a high peak still be called one after someone has plucked it from that peak? We may be acting, but in other people's eyes, we're already engaged..." In urban novels, didn't heroines always develop an inexplicable loathing for their fiancés?
Sogo Doma suspected that Yukino Yukinoshita hadn't considered that point. After all, due to the declining birthrate, arranged dates were commonplace in this country. Take Shizuka Hiratsuka—she was a longtime regular who kept losing yet kept fighting on the matchmaking scene. Ahem. Since there were veteran regulars who lost repeatedly, then naturally there were also undefeated champions!
Although old women like Shizuka Hiratsuka claimed that those undefeated champions of the matchmaking scene were all trash, trash was trash—but it indirectly proved one thing: succeeding in matchmaking didn't mean the couple would definitely make it to the end!
An engagement was different, however...
"So what?" Yet just as Sogo Doma imagined how Yukino Yukinoshita would react once she realized