"Ms. Kirisu, Mashiro—cough, cough—I should explain first. Shiina is actually a world-famous artist. If her paintings went to auction, a single piece could probably sell for over a hundred million yen. So what exactly are you basing your claim on when you say I used my status as her landlord to deprive Mashiro of the right to speak?"
Realizing that Mafuyu Kirisu had already gone racing down a path called misunderstanding, Sogo Doma hurriedly spoke up.
Mafuyu Kirisu, who thought she understood everything: "..."
After a while.
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"N-No way... over a hundred million..."
Sogo silently took out his phone, pulled up Mashiro Shiina's profile, and handed it to Mafuyu Kirisu.
The more Mafuyu Kirisu read after taking the phone, the more shocked she became: (⊙⊙)
A genius-level high school painter.
Once granted an audience with the Queen of England.
Her works collected by countless collectors.
This was her student?
Wait! If someone with that kind of status was being threatened into silence, wasn't that even worse? If the public found out, all of Private Toyogasaki would be condemned by everyone! That guy Sogo Doma...
"Ms. Kirisu, what do you think Shiina relied on to achieve such accomplishments? She devoted all her heart and soul to painting throughout her life. That led to a problem: Shiina practically had zero common sense about ordinary life. She could only deal with the world through her own unique perspective..." Sogo Doma had expected this.
Mafuyu Kirisu's expression turned complicated. "You mean..."
"That's right. Because she lacks so much common sense, I can say for certain that these messages Shiina wrote were a misunderstanding. The proof is that I'm even more confused than you are right now." Sogo Doma wore a thoroughly baffled expression.
Mafuyu Kirisu: "..."
Should she believe him?
Well, it