My useless knowledge had grown...
Shaqiang truly lived up to his reputation as an artificially unintelligent fool. Couldn't he teach Mashiro some basic life skills for once? Like, for example—
"Utaha really cares about Sougo..." Shiina Mashiro remarked offhandedly as she drew.
Right, right, exactly. Now that was a basic life skill. Doma Sougo nodded with his arms folded, sighing inwardly as he thought...
Wait!
What kind of life skill was that?
"Why do you say that, Mashiro...?"
"Sougo didn't have lunch with us today, and Utaha looked really disappointed."
Doma Sougo: -_----
Even Mashiro had noticed? He'd been right, then. That Kasumigaoka girl was just after his body!
But...
Doma Sougo couldn't figure out how Kasumigaoka Utaha had suddenly become interested in him. He hadn't been going around carelessly raising flags. The promotion for Love Metronome, for instance—that had all been Nakiri Erina's doing, hadn't it? Utaha was supposed to be interested in Nakiri Erina...
And then there was the autograph session. He hadn't even brought a single book to sign. Umaru the hamster had been the one to restock them all. If anyone had earned Utaha's favor, it should've been Umaru!
Besides, he often treated her like a maid, making her run errands, give him massages, let him rest his head in her lap... Just thinking about it made him feel sorry for her. Could she actually be a masochist?
Had he ever done anything for Kasumigaoka Utaha? The only thing he'd given her was one of his failed bento boxes. Bento... Wait!
Doma Sougo suddenly realized that what he considered a failed bento was a rare delicacy to everyone else. So Kasumigaoka Utaha had been after his cooking, and her appetite for it had developed into an appetite for him...
Heh. Hehehe...
That seemed to be the