"Mai, where exactly on me do you smell salted fish?" Sogo Doma smiled politely, yet sinisterly.
"Then why were you wandering around an izakaya during class?" Unable to find any grounds for rebuttal, Mai Sakurajima suddenly asked.
Sogo Doma: "..."
She saw him? He couldn't let this bunny girl blabber in front of Umaru, so he couldn't act like he cared.
"What does salted fish have to do with wandering around an izakaya during class?" Sogo Doma withdrew his sinister smile, looking thoroughly puzzled.
"I heard salted fish goes well with sake!"
The moment she finished speaking, Sogo Doma reached behind himself and pulled something out. "Here..."
Mai Sakurajima stared blankly at the carrot before her. "?"
"I heard rabbits go well with carrots..." Sogo Doma said in the same tone.
Mai Sakurajima gritted her teeth. "Why the hell are you carrying a carrot around!?"
"It's useful..." It could be disguised as a firearm, of course, but there was no way he would say that out loud.
Mai Sakurajima: "..."
Why had she worn a bunny girl outfit in the first place!!!
Ahem...
No, that was wrong!
She shouldn't have asked this guy anything!
"Let me ask again, Mai. What exactly about me resembles a salted fish?"
"Nothing! I was talking nonsense..." Mai Sakurajima gritted her teeth.
"Tsk, tsk..." Sogo Doma shook his head and closed off the observation room before continuing, "No matter what kind of hypothesis it is, it has to be built upon a sufficient chain of evidence..."
"Got it..." Certain she wouldn't understand whatever lengthy explanation Sogo Doma was about to give, Mai Sakurajima hurriedly said, "Basically, I just shouldn't touch anything in this laboratory, right..." The entire argument had started because she had wanted to look at that tube of Salted Fish Virus.
Sogo Doma: