"That's right, that's right, superheroes are amazing..." To avoid getting tangled up with Rita, Sogo Doma went all out. "Even if she's out there alone, she'll be fine..."
"Hmm?" Yet it was precisely because he said that that Mashiro Shiina realized the problem. "Will Rita be in danger?"
"I told you, she's a superhero..."
"Shut up!" Yukino Yukinoshita finally couldn't listen anymore. "Mashiro, does your friend... Rita, have anyone she knows or any friends around here?"
"..." Mashiro Shiina fell into thought at those words. But after pondering for quite a while, she merely shook her head. "I don't know..."
Yukino Yukinoshita and the others: "..."
Then don't spend so long thinking about it if you didn't know. If they hadn't known Mashiro so well, they might have thought she was doing it on purpose...
"Don't worry, don't worry..." Before they could say anything, Sogo Doma, seeing things heading increasingly in the wrong direction, hurriedly said, "Rita is—"
"Shut up!" Before he could finish, Yukino Yukinoshita interrupted him again. "Doma, I thought that while you weren't exactly a good person, you wouldn't go so far as to leave a girl—"
"Wait a minute..." Sogo Doma noticed everyone looking at him with growing disdain because of Yukino Yukinoshita's words. He could ignore everyone else, but even Utaha and Umaru had joined in... He had no choice but to explain. "I meant that Rita has acquaintances here."
"Hmm? You know that too?"
Not only the others—even Mashiro looked over at Sogo Doma curiously after hearing him say that.
"Mashiro, don't tell me you've forgotten your cousin?" Sogo Doma couldn't help reminding her.
"Eh?" Before Mashiro herself could react, Yukino Yukinoshita and the others were the first to be surprised. "Mashiro has a cousin here?" No wonder they were astonished. Since Mashiro had