Toyogasaki Private High School, rooftop.
After eating and drinking his fill, Sogo Doma lay leisurely beneath a sunshade, utterly at ease. The occasional breeze merely lifted the hair over his forehead and brought a touch of coolness.
Lunch break had just ended. Utaha Kasumigaoka had left the rooftop with Mashiro not long ago, and with no one around in such a languid setting—one perfectly suited for a nap—Sogo Doma's sleep mask came in handy once more.
"Utaha's getting bolder and bolder..." Thinking of the foot-stomping incident from earlier, Sogo Doma muttered to himself. "When we first met, just a few words were enough to throw her off her game...
Well, Umaru seemed to be the same at first. She was clearly pretty scared of me in the beginning, but then she actually developed Facehugger attacks and Umaru Monster attacks... Utaha won't develop some kind of attack move too, will she?"
Sogo Doma fell into a baffling silence.
After a while.
"Ha, haha... How could that be? Not everyone's a useless imouto like her. Impossible, impossible. Don't scare yourself. What if I end up having a nightmare? Forget this pointless worrying. Sleep, sleep. It'd be such a waste not to sleep in weather this nice..."
ZZZ
Time passed second by second...
Just as Sogo Doma was drifting in and out of sleep, several soft calls—"Sogo, Sogo..." —pulled him from his dream.
Taking off his sleep mask, Sogo Doma rubbed his eyes. "Who is it?"
Once he saw who it was, Sogo Doma first froze, then took two steps back before pointing at the visitor. "I-It appeared..."
After taking Mashiro Shiina back to the classroom, Utaha Kasumigaoka remembered that she still had not asked about Ako Tamaki and Yukino Yukinoshita, so she returned to the rooftop. Seeing Sogo Doma already fast asleep