However:
"So..." Since he knew Katsura well, Sogo Doma looked at Rumi Tsurumi after she finished complaining. "What did you say afterward to persuade him? Or rather, how did you make Katsura believe you?"
"..." For some reason, after hearing his question, Rumi Tsurumi fell silent for a while before turning her face away. "W-What else could I do? I just told him the truth..."
"Just told him the truth?" Sogo Doma mused upon hearing that.
It seemed Katsura really did give him plenty of face. After all, if Rumi Tsurumi had told the truth, she would definitely have said that he had introduced her, right? Hearing that she was someone he had sent over and believing her unconditionally—Katsura was really broadening his horizons!
"..." Yet, just as he was feeling deeply moved, Rumi Tsurumi seemed to misunderstand something. "I-It really was the truth. I-I went to ask him for advice in the first place..."
"Huh?" Sogo Doma froze when he heard that. It couldn't be helped—he had suddenly realized he might have been overthinking things. If that was what she meant, then... "You didn't tell Katsura that I sent you?"
Wait, it really did seem like she might not have told him. After all, during the school festival, Katsura had even bragged to someone about taking on an apprentice...
Rumi Tsurumi: "..."
What kind of question was that? How could she have dared reveal that information back then?
After all, she had always thought she had been set up by him. Someone had told her Mr. Katsura could help her, but the Mr. Katsura she saw had not only been a cross-dresser, he had also worked at a transgender bar. If that person and Mr. Katsura had been in league with each other, wouldn't she have been walking right