"Doma, we can talk this out! Come down first!" Shizuka Hiratsuka was panicking now—utterly panicking. She had only called him a lunatic once, yet Sogo Doma had climbed over the rooftop fence and said:
"Ms. Hiratsuka, your words hurt me. So, I've decided to jump off the building!"
Shizuka Hiratsuka: What?!
Was his heart really that delicate and sensitive?
"It's too late. I've already suffered irreversible damage..." Sogo Doma, incomparably fragile.
Shizuka Hiratsuka: ...
Wait, what was she supposed to do in a situation like this? Was she really that terrible? She had only made an offhand jab! Why had things escalated to this point? Right, she seemed to have seen something like this in TV dramas before...
"Sogo Doma, whatever you want, your teacher can agree to it! Just come down first!"
"I don't have any demands, Ms. Hiratsuka. Actually, you were right. I'm a lunatic. I have a doctor's certificate to prove it." Sogo Doma, always capable of entertaining himself.
Shizuka Hiratsuka: Furious!
Was she cursed to encounter lunatics this year? Everyone she met seemed to have the potential to go crazy. Haruno was one, Yukino was another, and now Sogo Doma seemed even crazier. Of course, knowing that was useless now—she still had to keep persuading him.
"Sogo Doma, come down first! No matter what you ask for, your teacher can agree to it!"
"Ms. Hiratsuka, you wouldn't understand how painful it is when a lunatic gets awakened to the fact that he's a lunatic by the person he likes. So I won't come down—I'll only jump down!"
Shizuka Hiratsuka: What?!
What did he mean, the person he liked?
Before she could figure it out, she heard him say:
"Well then, goodbye!"
With a light push from his toes, Sogo Doma jumped off the building right in