A tiny seed could grow into a towering tree. Likewise, a sliver of trust could grow into...
"So, Erina, want to give it a try? My method for improving your cooking..." Sogo Doma wore an utterly sincere smile. To make his unreasonable achievements seem reasonable and prevent anyone knowledgeable from seeing at a glance that there was something seriously off about him, he had no choice but to find the perfect shill—Erina Nakiri.
"Are you plotting something crooked again...?" Although Sogo Doma looked thoroughly sincere, Erina Nakiri still maintained the vigilance she ought to have. As expected of a young lady receiving an elite education.
Sogo Doma was deeply pained by this.
"Erina, trust between people..."
"Senior Doma, would you like me to go into detail about your 'glorious achievements'?"
Sogo Doma: "..."
"Erina, people who dwell too much on the past will be bound by it and never gain a future. Besides, I'm serious this time. After all, Totsuki is becoming less and less challenging for me. In this school, I'm not targeting anyone in particular—I'm saying everyone here is trash..."
Thinking of everything he had done before, Sogo Doma decided that asking was worse than provoking her. After all, tsundere types could never stand being provoked.
"Sogo Doma!" Sure enough, as the young lady of the Nakiri family—the ones who controlled Totsuki—and a tsundere who took pride in Totsuki from the bottom of her heart, any insult toward Totsuki made her instinctively stomp her feet and grit her teeth.
"Isn't that the truth? To make life a little more interesting, I have no choice but to find a way to cultivate an opponent myself. It's really exhausting, you know. Ugh! I just hope your God's Tongue talent is as astonishing as the rumors say, so that under my