What kind of genius... would pass up a broad, open road just to take a narrow path?
It wasn't until she saw Mashiro that she realized there really were people who would pass up a broad, open road for a winding little path. With Mashiro as an example, then Katsura...
Natural. Truly, utterly natural. If he weren't so natural, how else could he possibly...
Ahem. Setting that aside, it didn't seem like much of a problem for such a naturally airheaded Katsura to take little Rumi to some bar, did it?
Shizuka Hiratsuka was utterly bewildered. "..."
Teacher Takahashi beside her was even more so. "???"
What exactly was going on with Tsurumi?
"Still..." Fortunately, just as they were growing increasingly anxious, Sogo Doma spoke again. "Don't worry yet. Setting everything else aside, Teacher Takahashi, right?"
"Yes!" Even though Sogo Doma was the student, Teacher Takahashi instinctively straightened up when he called out to her.
"Very good..."
As he replied, Sogo Doma nodded approvingly, as if he were her superior, leaving Shizuka Hiratsuka staring speechlessly.
Takahashi, wake up!
Teacher Takahashi: "..."
She was perfectly awake. The problem was Tsurumi's ability to influence people...
Put it this way: there was more or less bullying in every other school, wasn't there? But thanks to Tsurumi's "efforts," forget bullying—even if the other students couldn't exactly be called loving and close, quite a few of them were at least able to speak to one another!
What? Everyone being able to communicate amicably was a problem too? The last time something like this happened was when Sogo Doma was in elementary school—
The students who had started the bullying ended up being bullied so badly that they recognized their own faults, and even the principal and chairman of the board were forced out of their