Don't let Shizuka Hiratsuka's carefree appearance fool you. When something actually happened, she displayed extraordinary meticulousness, as well as keen observation and deductive skills.
Taking out her phone, Shizuka Hiratsuka pulled up the news from today's events at Toyogasaki.
She carefully examined the photos one by one.
Teacher Matsuzaki...
Takuya Fujigami...
Masao Oshima...
Everyone appearing in the photos looked familiar to Shizuka Hiratsuka, and those impressions seemed to remind her of something. She hurriedly rifled through her desk and soon found the club application form Sogo Doma had once given her. Flipping through the form, she came to the members' personal information...
After comparing them against the list one by one, Shizuka Hiratsuka could not help but rub her forehead. Just as she had expected, the people in those photos were all members of the Oolong Tea Research Club founded by Sogo Doma!
What had happened today was undoubtedly inseparable from Sogo Doma. What exactly was that guy trying to do!?
After observing him for so long, she had thought Sogo Doma had no major problems aside from disliking studying and enjoying cutting class. In Shizuka Hiratsuka's eyes, he was even far more normal than Yukino Yukinoshita, who insisted on absolute correctness.
Because absolute correctness itself was a false proposition. How could anything in this world be absolutely correct? Though Yukino Yukinoshita, who clung to that ideal, seemed dazzling and gentle, Shizuka Hiratsuka did not want to see her like that. After all, this world was neither so gentle nor so correct.
From Shizuka Hiratsuka's observations, Sogo Doma was completely unlike Yukino Yukinoshita. He was neither gentle nor correct, but he was someone who lived true to himself—and a winner in life, too...
In class, it seemed like everyone could chat with Sogo Doma for a few words. He