What did it mean to challenge one's worldview?
Whether it was Ms. Takahashi, Shizuka Hiratsuka, or even Yukino Yukinoshita and the others, they all believed in the "truth" everyone talked about: "Why is it that no one else gets bullied, but you do? Isn't it because you did something wrong?"
Textbook victim-blaming!
Even when they themselves were the victims, under the weight of everyone's opinions, even if they sensed something was wrong, they would blindly conclude that it was all their fault...
That was why Yukino Yukinoshita attributed her own fault to being outstanding. If she had not been so outstanding, what reason would the others have had to isolate her?
Then she began thinking down that mistaken path—how could she make it so that "outstanding people would not be excluded"? That was also why the Service Club had come into being...
Because Yukino Yukinoshita thought that if everyone became outstanding, then would outstanding people still be excluded?
But she had not considered that there was always someone better, always a higher sky beyond the sky. Being outstanding required comparison, too. Take Mashiro, for instance. Which of the people studying painting alongside her was not a genius in ordinary people's eyes? Yet they had still lost to Mashiro. Even Rita was no exception...
Not everyone was like Sogo Doma. He had cheats. Though, honestly, he did not want those cheats at all. An evil god threatening to destroy the world at the drop of a hat—who the hell would want that? Especially when, before the evil god even tried to end the world, he could already reach the peak of life through his own "efforts." He had practically become the ruler of the world already, and then he had to lure in an evil god to destroy it? Wasn't that