This was it? This was it? This was all Yukino Yukinoshita had?
Yumiko Miura really wanted to laugh. It couldn't be helped—people were always comparing her to Yukinoshita. Before Yukinoshita transferred away from Sobu High, busybodies had dubbed them opposing forces of ice and fire. And thanks to the overwhelming popularity of her popular-girl clique, Yumiko's reputation had far surpassed Yukinoshita's.
But ever since Yukino Yukinoshita transferred away...
How should she put it?
It was like how those who survived a battlefield could never compete with the fallen over who was more heroic. Sobu High's students instinctively viewed the transferred Yukinoshita through a filter—especially since, right after she left, Sobu High suffered a crushing defeat in the regional joint exams—
It was supposed to be a prestigious college-prep school, yet not a single student had made it into the top hundred in the regional exams. How could the people of Sobu High not feel ashamed?
Still, when most people encountered a problem, they rarely looked for the cause within themselves. Instead, they pushed the blame onto others. So, in Sobu High's students' eyes, their disastrous performance in the regional exams was not because they had done poorly, but because Yukinoshita had transferred away. What utter nonsense.
Of course, it was not entirely without reason. After all, Yukinoshita had always held the number one spot while she was at Sobu High. Therefore, the students believed that if Yukinoshita had not transferred away, they certainly would not have failed to produce even one student in the top hundred!
After all, Yukinoshita would have stepped in...
In fact, right after Yukinoshita transferred away, her reputation at Sobu High had fallen to an all-time low. Labels like "traitor," "betrayer," and "runaway" were all pinned onto her!
Unfortunately, none of that affected Yukinoshita. Of course,