It was only after Yukino Yukinoshita transferred to Toyogasaki, and after Sogo Doma decided that the rooftop was too exposed to the sun—and that even on cloudy days, there was still the danger of wind and rain—that he exhausted every means to occupy the Service Club's activity room... until Shizuka Hiratsuka simply could not stand it any longer and stepped in to get the Service Club's activities underway...
To put it bluntly, if Shizuka Hiratsuka had not intervened, the Service Club would at most have been a "club" that merely talked about helping others. Its ideals might have sounded lofty, with things like "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime"...
But no matter how great the ideals or how lofty the beliefs, someone had to know about them!
Why had Sogo Doma originally designated the Service Club as one of his secret bases? Wasn't it because he knew perfectly well that while the club's mission of helping others sounded troublesome, nobody knew about it?
Did they know what that meant? An organization that helped people, yet nobody knew it would help them—and Yukino Yukinoshita would not take the initiative to speak up. Once you rounded things off, wasn't the Service Club basically the same as the Go-Home Club or the Reading Club?
Since none of them held activities anyway, what was wrong with Sogo Doma using their territory to relax?
Unfortunately, no matter how thoroughly he calculated, he had never expected Shizuka Hiratsuka, unable to bear watching any longer, to personally point the way for students who wanted help but did not know whom to ask.
Ahem, putting that aside for now...
In fact, after transferring to Toyogasaki, Yukino Yukinoshita's horizons had risen as