Although Utaha Kasumigaoka said she suddenly hated him being so nice, she also knew that if Sogo could really be as hard-hearted as his words, there never would have been anything between them to begin with...
Fortunately, Sogo had always been a laid-back slacker with little sense of propriety. Even when he was being nice, most people would not pick up on it.
It had to be said that Utaha Kasumigaoka understood Sogo Doma very well. In the blink of an eye, two days had passed, yet Sogo—who had promised to help Mashiro and Rita reconcile—was still slacking around at home. Mashiro was calm by nature, but anyone else would probably have been unable to stop themselves from asking whether he had truly taken the matter to heart.
It could not be helped. Every day, that guy was either playing games with Umaru or lazily lying around watching anime. Compared with those two siblings, even Utaha Kasumigaoka, who was constantly behind on her manuscripts, felt incredibly diligent. Why would that old woman Enako refuse to let her off?
Speaking of overdue manuscripts, Utaha Kasumigaoka suddenly realized something—hadn't Sogo promised to accompany her back to her hometown for research? Yet Rita and Mashiro's affairs had kept delaying it. Wait, could Sogo be deliberately using Rita as an excuse to stall for time?
At that thought, Utaha Kasumigaoka could no longer hold it in. "Sogo!"
"Hahaha..." Sogo, immersed in anime, seemed not to realize there was a problem. "Utaha, this season's new shows are really fun..."
Utaha Kasumigaoka: "..."
Had Sogo forgotten their promise, or was he...
"Ding-dong!" Just as her thoughts ran wild, the Doma Residence's doorbell rang once again.
"Who is it this time?" Hearing the doorbell, Sogo grumbled, "Don't they know it's a rare vacation? Just running over to