Well, Yukino Yukinoshita really wasn't stupid. She had more or less guessed what Rita was thinking—if even she could guess it, then Sogo Doma certainly could.
So before the second Miss could finish speaking, the wickedly mischievous Sogo Doma instigated, "So, are you supporting Rita? Or Mashiro?"
It was unclear whether Yukino Yukinoshita had seen through someone's "evil intentions," but this was how she answered: "Mashiro can make her own decisions..."
Those words moved Mashiro Shiina quite a bit. "Yukino..."
"Is that so?" But she had only just spoken when Sogo Doma provoked her again. "I thought you'd side with Rita..."
"Why would you say that?"
"Because you're the correct Yukinoshita..." Sogo Doma smiled. "Shouldn't someone as insistent on being right as you stand on the right side...?"
"Heh..." Hearing that, Yukino Yukinoshita sneered. "Putting aside whether I'm right or not, I don't think Rita's idea is all that correct!"
"Oh?" Sogo Doma said. "You should know very well how talented Mashiro is, right? If she followed the traditional path of painting, then before long, there'd surely be another master in the art world..."
However, as he said that, he had forgotten that Mashiro was right there. Before he could finish, Mashiro said, "Sogo, bad person!"
Sogo Doma: "..."
Damn it, he had instigated things right onto himself.
"So what?" Yukino Yukinoshita was instead the one who stepped forward. "If Mashiro herself doesn't like it..."
"Mm!" Hearing this, Mashiro Shiina immediately seized the opening. "I don't like it..."
"You heard her, didn't you?" Perhaps because she had argued so often with Sogo Doma and Utaha Kasumigaoka, Yukino Yukinoshita had also learned to latch onto arguments that benefited her. "Mashiro doesn't like it..."
"Then don't you think Mashiro is wasting her talent?" Since he had already instigated things onto himself, Sogo