Ever since then, Utaha Kasumigaoka (with her overactive imagination) had clashed with Mashiro Shiina several more times, only for Mashiro's blank confusion to defuse things every time. Naturally, she would never tell Umaru about any of this. If she did, wouldn't that mean Utaha Kasumigaoka couldn't even beat some Mashiro Shiina?
Impossible!?
What Utaha Kasumigaoka felt fortunate about was having Umaru as an informant, allowing her to get the answer she wanted—Sogo hadn't started teaching Mashiro Shiina how to draw manga. As expected, unlike the male leads in light novels, Sogo knew how to keep proper boundaries. Just as expected of Sogo. Self-conquest +1!
But the fact that she had only said half of it made Hamster Umaru even more curious about what Mashiro Shiina had done at school. Sogo Doma, however, considered it causing trouble. What if his foolish Imouto picked up that troublesome behavior? She was already such a useless girl—if she started causing trouble too...
The behavioral pattern of a troublemaking dumpling...
Don't think about it, don't think about it. His SAN value would hit zero! Sogo Doma shook his head, hurriedly throwing that terrifying thought out of his mind.
When faced with Umaru's question about what Mashiro had done that day once more, Sogo Doma could only change the subject to keep his useless Imouto from learning her troublemaking ways. "Let's not talk about Mashiro for now. By the way, Detective Conan is really something, isn't it? In the first episode, they still had rotary phones, and now they've entered the smartphone era, yet a whole year still hasn't passed."
He had to change the subject. Mashiro Shiina's troublesome antics targeted everyone, but Hamster Umaru had to maintain her refined young lady persona outside. Once she learned how to cause trouble, she would definitely only target