"Click~!"
Shizuka Hiratsuka pulled out a cigarette and lit it. "Sogo, ever since I first met you, I've felt that your way of thinking was terribly corrupt—more corrupt even than that of many working adults."
Sogo Doma looked puzzled. "Hm?"
"I don't know what kind of education the Doma Family gave you, but this money-first mindset of yours simply doesn't suit a student. At your age, you should be talking about hard work and dreams, not money, money, money," Shizuka Hiratsuka said earnestly.
"You could say I'm just a little more mature than the average student."
"Too mature. As a student, you shouldn't be worrying about money at all. This is the stage of life when you study, make friends, fall in love, sweat it out on the sports field, and celebrate victory. Can money buy friendship? Can money buy true love? Can money buy the joy of victory after giving it your all?" Shizuka Hiratsuka declared passionately.
Sogo Doma: -_-!
Wasn't he just saying they should contact a housekeeping company? How had she suddenly gotten all fired up?
"Hah..." Shizuka Hiratsuka took another drag. "Sogo, there's absolutely no life in your eyes..."
"Don't talk nonsense, Shizuka. I don't have dead-fish eyes!"
"Dead-fish eyes at least contain abundant NHA, but your eyes are nothing but empty, barren hollows. Sogo, have you ever had a goal? Or something you wanted?"
"That's an unfounded assumption. If I didn't have any goals, wouldn't the Yukinoshita Family be taking a huge risk by working with me?" Sogo Doma countered.
"That's exactly what concerns me. Even if the Doma Family is one of the foremost distinguished families, you haven't even obtained inheritance rights yet, and still you managed to establish cooperation with the Yukinoshita Family entirely on your own. Yet you weren't excited in the