The more outstanding a person was, the more likely they were to be excluded and ostracized by the ordinary. That saying rang especially true in this country.
Before Sogo Doma transferred in.
Utaha Kasumigaoka had been collectively ostracized by the girls, thoroughly "enjoying" solitude. She had no friends and no one to talk to. That was precisely why she poured her emotions into her novels and devoted herself desperately to Creation...
Yukino Yukinoshita was the same. Because she was too outstanding, she had long "enjoyed" a repressed, stifling loneliness. She, too, had wished for friends to offer her birthday wishes and gifts on her birthday. She had also wished to attend her friends' birthday parties...
And it was not just them. Ako Tamaki and Mashiro Shiina were the same...
However.
After Sogo Doma transferred in, his outrageously punchable self-introduction had certainly angered the girls. Yet beneath that anger lay a secret delight—when it came to being easy on the eyes, Sogo Doma absolutely deserved to be called a heartthrob!
Only...
Heartthrobs were always someone else's. When they heard that Utaha Kasumigaoka had already snagged Sogo Doma not long after he transferred in, the girls were furious!
At the time, they had thought that not becoming friends with Utaha Kasumigaoka—ostracizing her—had been an incomparably correct choice. She usually acted like some lofty, untouchable flower, yet the moment she encountered a good man, she moved so fast. Tch, little vixen!
Of course, they only dared think it. Then they continued ostracizing her. They were familiar with that routine...
However.
Something that left the girls in despair happened.
If there was only one person in a class who was far more outstanding than everyone else, then ostracism might have some effect. But what if there were several people who surpassed them by a