"Eriri, Spandam, Golden Flash Junior..." Just as the second young lady's eye twitched, Utaha Kasumigaoka added, "Let your senior teach you a lesson: the more someone belittles a particular trait of another person, the more it means they care about it—or envy that trait..."
"..." Eriri Sawamura choked for a moment before retorting, "Who, who would envy, envy you, you black-stockinged fa-fat..."
Unfortunately, the moment she reacted like that, not only did Utaha Kasumigaoka want to sigh, but even Yukino Yukinoshita did as well. She just wanted to say—Eriri, you would have been better off keeping your mouth shut!
"Really not envious?" Utaha Kasumigaoka pressed on.
"..." Fine, she was incredibly envious.
Not just Eriri—even Yukino Yukinoshita silently lowered her head. Actually, she was envious too, but she still believed she had room to grow. Probably. Anyway, she did not expect to grow to Utaha's or her sister's level; being about average was enough. That was not asking too much, was it?
"Shut up..." Just as Yukino Yukinoshita was imagining her future growth, Eriri finally reached the end of her patience. "I said I'm not envious, so I'm not envious! Besides, Senior Yukinoshita also..."
"Don't you two think that's enough?" Seeing that she had gone from merely catching a stray bullet to being genuinely dragged onto the battlefield, the second young lady hurriedly said, "Don't forget that bastard Doma is standing there laughing at us!"
"Don't talk nonsense, I wasn't..." As soon as she finished speaking, Sogo Doma swiftly denied it. "I was still thinking about how to ma—no, how to explain it to you..."
"Oh?" As soon as he said that, the two who had been arguing indeed stopped. Utaha Kasumigaoka's smile turned kind again. "Sogo-kun just admitted that he was making something up..."
"How could that be? I