"Cough, cough..." Just as Eriri felt an indescribable mix of grief and indignation, Sogo Doma spoke up. "Eriri, don't talk nonsense. What do you mean, I was egging you on? You're making it sound like I got you to do something shameful..."
"You..." How could Eriri possibly let that slide? Wasn't the reason Kashiwagi Eri had become so widely known in their circle because of her mother and Sogo Doma...
"Cough, cough..." Yet just as she was about to speak, Sogo Doma started coughing again. While he coughed, he secretly signaled with his eyes that there were other people around.
"..."
Only then did Eriri realize that the people standing here were not just the Service Club members, but also Umaru and students from Sobu High School. And what had she almost done? In a fit of anger, she had nearly exposed her identity as Kashiwagi Eri...
Thinking it over carefully, although Sogo Doma had said plenty, whenever it came to saying that she was Kashiwagi Eri, he had always stopped short and glossed over it vaguely. On the other hand, she had nearly been unable to hold herself back...
The thought left Eriri terrified.
Thus, she had no idea how to respond to Sogo Doma's words. If she refuted him, she could only reveal Kashiwagi Eri's identity to everyone, which would be social death. But if she did not refute him, she really could not accept it!
"Besides..." Fortunately, Sogo Doma spoke again at that moment. "I merely proposed a hypothesis. What does that have to do with whether I was egging you on or not?"
"W-What hypothesis!?" Perhaps because she was still shaken, Eriri had already forgotten that Sogo Doma had just suspected her of being a boy.
"..." Yukino Yukinoshita had not forgotten. Seeing Eriri get so