"Why was a huge star pretending to be invisible?"
"If she really wanted to be invisible, then she shouldn't have transferred here..."
"She knew perfectly well how popular she was, yet she still acted like she was being isolated. Who was she putting on that show for? If she wanted to be invisible, then don't let anyone see her..."
"Every time I see her, it feels so awkward. It'd be better if she just disappeared..."
"It'd be better if she disappeared..."
Although Mai Sakurajima said she didn't want to know and didn't care what those students thought of her, when Sogo Doma displayed the pheromones he had found on the computer before her eyes, her expression still darkened slightly. "Is that what those people say about me online?"
"Mai, you don't think I collected this from the internet, do you?"
"Wasn't it?"
"Of course not!" Sogo Doma turned the screen back around. "Don't forget, there's currently an unknown force on the internet deleting your personal pheromones. What you just saw was extracted from the malicious aura factors on you..."
"Aura factors?" Mai Sakurajima was puzzled.
"Um... I'd better explain it simply. Aura is quite an abstract concept, but Mai, you should have some understanding of it, right? Some say that those who have long held high positions possess a powerful aura. Others describe certain people by saying that although they may look ordinary, their aura is extraordinarily strong... From that, we can conclude that humans themselves possess an invisible kind of power..."
"But those are just literary devices used in books, aren't they? You're concluding that humans possess some invisible power based on that? That's way too unrigorous..." Mai Sakurajima's urge to retort grew stronger by the second.
"Of course, that's not all. There's another piece of evidence..." Sogo