"Of course..." Faced with Utaha Kasumigaoka and the others' doubts, Sogo Doma remained completely unfazed. "Shizuka Hiratsuka is still fairly young. Even if her body has been eroded by cigarettes and alcohol, she can still force it to recover on the strength of her youth. Besides, she usually works out..."
Shizuka Hiratsuka did not catch anything else—she only heard the word "young." Before Sogo Doma had even finished speaking, her expression had already turned into this: (￣︶￣)
"Oh?" That smug look made the already irritated Utaha Kasumigaoka even more annoyed. "But I remember your catchphrase being that once a woman passes eighteen, she's already old, right? So why are you now..." saying Shizuka Hiratsuka was still fairly young?
At those words, not only did Shizuka Hiratsuka shut down, even Umaru Doma went blank in an instant. It could not be helped—she was nearly sixteen already. Did that mean that, in Onii-chan's eyes, his adorable little sister would count as an old maid in another three years?
"Hold on..." Fortunately, Sogo Doma's survival instincts always kicked in at critical moments. "When did I ever say girls became old women once they passed eighteen? What I clearly said was that any girl older than me was an old woman in my eyes..."
Shizuka Hiratsuka: ORZ
No matter what, she was an old woman anyway, was that it!?
"Is that so?" Utaha Kasumigaoka's only goal was to stop the hot-blooded female teacher from showing off. As for what Sogo had actually said, did that matter? Not at all. "Then I must have remembered wrong. Still, Shizuka Hiratsuka isn't just much older than you, Sogo-kun—she's also far older than the eighteen-year-old standard, isn't she?"
Shizuka Hiratsuka: ORZ
Stop it, stop it. She knew she was no longer young!
"Well..." Sogo Doma said, "but as