Buddhist scriptures really do get more and more blood-pumping the more you read, huh? Great Might Heavenly Dragon!

"What are you thinking about, Sogo-kun?" Utaha Kasumigaoka asked, puzzled, as Sogo Doma spat out a mouthful of salt soda.

"Nothing..." Sogo Doma replied quickly, as if that would help him hide his guilt. "Don't overthink it. That water just went down, down... the wrong way! That's right, it went down the wrong way. If I had to guess, I'd say I bought a counterfeit, shoddy product..."

There was no way Sogo Doma could say something like mistaking "getting started" for "starting to move"!

"It went down the wrong way!?" Utaha Kasumigaoka blinked again. "Mineral water can go down the wrong way? Sogo-kun's luck really is..."

"Sorry my luck's so bad!"

"No, your luck's too good! Anyway, Sogo, what does mineral water that goes down the wrong way taste like? Could I..."

Gulp, gulp, gulp...

Before Utaha Kasumigaoka could finish, Sogo Doma had drained the bottle in his hand in an instant. "Um~! Did Utaha say something just now?"

Utaha Kasumigaoka: -_----

It was confirmed. Sogo-kun was definitely hiding something from her.

"Sogo-kun, wasn't that water supposed to go down the wrong way?"

"No matter how badly it goes down, that's no reason for us to waste water. Since I happened to come across it, no matter how badly it goes down, I'll..." Sogo Doma, environmental warrior.

Utaha Kasumigaoka: RAGE (ノ｀ー′)ノ~~┻━┻

Who the hell did he think he was fooling?

Sogo Doma: "..."

I should've managed to bluff my way out of it, right?

Damn it, no, he couldn't keep this up. It was only a mere Kasumigaoka, so why did he have to be so passive? He had to find some way to change the subject. At a time like this, reading some Buddhist scriptures might do the trick. Right, he seemed to have followed something along those lines...