All right, although Yukino Yukinoshita had always emphasized how much she disliked Sogo Doma, was that really the case? If she did not care about him, she would have merely regarded him as an ordinary passerby, wouldn't she? How else could she have recognized him the very moment he found her?
Not everyone had Sogo Doma's memory—the kind that even gave him headaches. They had only been elementary school classmates. Who could remember someone that clearly?
What? Didn't Hayato Hayama... remember Sogo Doma vividly too? Heh, Hayato Hayama remembered Sogo Doma because he had witnessed almost the entire process of the other boy using some inexplicably vicious method to create an outcome that made his heart tremble just thinking about it. But Yukinoshita had not!
Thanks to Yukinoshita Haruno's protection, Yukino Yukinoshita had gone abroad to study before graduating elementary school. She had vaguely heard that an extremely vicious incident had occurred at her former elementary school, but she had already been overseas by then. No matter how terrible the incident was, it had been very, very far away from her.
Uh, human nature was truly complicated. No matter how great a disaster was, as long as it did not happen nearby—if people merely heard others mention it or read about it in the papers—they generally could not truly empathize with it...
Even if countless people had been injured or killed by the disaster, to those hearing the news, however many victims there were, they were merely a string of cold numbers. No matter how tragic their experiences were, they were just gossip.
To Yukino Yukinoshita, all she had seen was her classmates mistaking one girl for another. What was so terrible about that? Perhaps it had merely been some novel game. Even if that game had caused rather serious