A Noble's Threat Didn't Need to Be Brutal-It Just Had to Target What the Other Person Feared...

A love triangle!?

Sogo Doma had thought he'd probably never run into a situation like this in his life, but what was going on between Masuzu Natsukawa and Yukino Yukinoshita?

Of course, perhaps he was just reading things wrong. He could vaguely sense Masuzu's hostility toward Yukino—uh, and that hostility had surfaced when Masuzu noticed Yukino's attitude changing...

But that didn't make sense. Sure, when Masuzu had first transferred in, she'd asked him to pretend to be her boyfriend, but he'd turned her down. After that, their interactions had been about the same as those with the other members of the Service Club. At most, he'd stepped in when Masuzu was being harassed during the school festival, but anyone would have stepped in under those circumstances, right?

Besides, he hadn't appeared like some hero descending from on high. His entrance had been more villainous than the big bad's—he'd been downright overbearing. If that was enough to make her fixate on him, then it could only be—

His damn irresistible charm!

All right, why didn't he want to stick around? Wasn't it because his charm was too much, and he was afraid people wouldn't be able to control themselves around him?

Sure enough, boys had to protect themselves when they went out, too...

With that thought, Sogo no longer wanted to stay in the classroom. Just look at the kind of situation he'd gotten himself into!

Time to make a run for it—having found himself another excuse to skip class and play games, Sogo encouraged himself as he gave his own cleverness a little pat on the back.

Fortunately, nobody else knew what he'd been thinking. Otherwise, they'd definitely have called him shameless...

Whether his guess was right was a matter of opinion. But after Sogo left the classroom, Utaha Kasumigaoka