An old saying goes: "A person's handwriting reflects who they are."
It might be a bit of a stretch, but with a little reinterpretation, it wasn't hard to uncover hidden secrets from someone's handwriting.
That was even more true for a writer like Utaha Kasumigaoka. In fact, she took great pleasure in it.
There were plenty of suspicious details in the note Sogo Doma had sent back. First, it had been returned very quickly; unlike everyone else, he hadn't hesitated over what excuse to make. Second, in the note, he had gone back to calling her "Kasumigaoka-san." That meant Sogo-kun cared...
Next was the name Tamaki, which he had crossed out. Though Sogo-kun had scribbled over it heavily, it was easy enough to figure out from the context that he had originally written Ako Tamaki. But then, as if he'd thought of something, he'd changed it to the more familiar "Ako."
And now for the most important point: why had Sogo-kun told her to use the wildest ideas a light-novel author could come up with to guess what his relationship with that Ako Tamaki was?
There was only one answer!
Sogo-kun had gone from being concerned to getting a little angry. He was upset that she'd doubted him because of someone else, that she hadn't trusted him. That was it!
Would Sogo-kun get angry if someone else doubted him? Utaha Kasumigaoka thought it over and came to the conclusion that he absolutely wouldn't. So why would her doubts make him angry?
Heh heh... Utaha Kasumigaoka laughed wildly to herself, unable to stop the corners of her mouth from lifting! She had her answer. Of course it was because Sogo-kun had started caring about her, Utaha Kasumigaoka...
As expected, this love war wasn't just her own fantasy. Without even realizing it,