"But Mashiro smiles a lot over here..." Just as Yukinoshita and the others were feeling stifled by Mashiro's circumstances, Lady Umaru spoke up.
Come to think of it, did Mashiro really never smile?
While Mashiro was indeed a genius young female painter with that expressionless, emotionless aura, Yukinoshita and the others remembered that she had smiled before! For instance, she smiled when she tasted Sogo's cooking, and she smiled when she secretly ate Baumkuchen by herself, thinking no one had noticed...
There was also the smile that had come from the bottom of her heart when her manga had been approved. Unfortunately, Yukinoshita and the others had not seen that smile, but the Doma siblings had. That was precisely why Lady Umaru had the confidence to speak up.
However, before Rita could react to her words, Yukinoshita and the others were already breaking into a cold sweat. It could not be helped—after all, in their memories, Mashiro only smiled when she was eating, didn't she?
Ummm... and that was only because she had eaten food made by Sogo Doma...
Whether that kind of smile could even be considered proper was something Yukino Yukinoshita and the others had serious doubts about!
"Is that so?" Before they could say anything, Rita, who was a beat slower, snapped out of her daze. Well, she had already vaguely guessed as much when she was at the door, but even after her suspicions were confirmed, she had still been stunned. Then she said, "It seems Mashiro really has been very happy here..."
"Uh..." Well, Umaru really did not know how to answer that. After all, she did not know whether Mashiro had been happy here or not. But if it were her, she probably would not have been happy!
Just think about it—what kind of