"It seemed I'd managed to muddle through again..." Watching Utaha Kasumigaoka's life-questioning expression, Sogo Doma sighed in relief while lamenting inwardly.
Unfortunately, that was wishful thinking. Once Utaha Kasumigaoka regained her rationality, her experience made her far less easy to fool than before.
"Wait, Sogo-kun, you still haven't explained why you outlined me in chalk. You've only been describing what happened while I was unconscious..."
Sogo Doma: "..."
EMMM!
Apparently, he hadn't muddled through. This girl was getting smarter too!
If an ordinary person encountered this situation, they would have certainly accepted their fate and honestly confessed to their strange hobby, handing the other person leverage over them. But he wouldn't! He, Sogo Doma, was a man proficient in countless methods of sophistry!
"Because that was the next topic. In truth, when Utako Kasumi suddenly fainted, I panicked too. But that panic only lasted for a moment. Once I understood Utako Kasumi's determination to personally experience things for material even while unconscious..."
Utaha Kasumigaoka: "..."
That was too exaggerated. She did love Creation, but she couldn't go so far as to faint for the sake of gathering material! Still...
Utaha Kasumigaoka glanced at Sogo Doma, whose face was full of admiration—his acting was impeccable—and decided to treat what he said as the truth. Ugh, it seemed she had acquired a Secret That Cannot Be Told.
As she thought that, Sogo Doma's words sounded incomparably sincere:
"At that moment, I felt it. I felt Utako Kasumi's heart as a creator. So I began to deduce the plot that would come next. If an ordinary person were writing it, the male lead would surely panic and take the heroine, Sayuka, to the infirmary, or else..."
Utaha Kasumigaoka: -_-!
Take her to the infirmary? Thankfully, that wasn't how she had arranged it. Sure