EMMM...
Unlike Utaha Kasumigaoka, who simply wanted revenge out of sheer black-heartedness, Sogo Doma had not gone along with scaring Shizuka Hiratsuka for purely black-hear—well, fine, black-heartedness accounted for half of it, but the other half was because—
It had to be said that Utaha Kasumigaoka's guess was quite accurate. In Sogo Doma's view, Shizuka Hiratsuka's clothes exploding did have something to do with him. Of course, it was not because he had messed up. He simply had not expected Shizuka Hiratsuka to absorb the nutrient solution so well.
But that was not his fault either. When he had formulated the nutrient solution, it had only been meant to help his useless little sister condition her body. Besides, hadn't Utaha and Mashiro absorbed the nutrient solution too? Yet their clothes had not exploded like Shizuka Hiratsuka's!
Sogo Doma thought—he simply had not taken individual physical differences into account.
Though he convinced himself of that inwardly, Sogo Doma was still feeling guilty. After all, Umaru and Utaha had exchanged looks as though they had realized something, then immediately turned their attention on him.
He had clearly done nothing, yet trust between people was still so fragile. What was wrong with this world?
Umaru: →_→
Utaha Kasumigaoka: →_→
Done nothing? Who had just told Mashiro to draw Shizuka Hiratsuka? And who had even told them to let go earlier? How was that doing nothing?
Actually, Sogo Doma could explain all of that. He did not want to look at her; he merely wanted to see the results of combining nutrient solution with training. As a researcher, it was perfectly normal for him to have that kind of curiosity, right?
By the way, although he had failed to observe Shizuka Hiratsuka's condition right away, judging from what Sogo Doma could see now, setting