The Sawamura Residence.
"What!?" Under Sayuri Sawamura's godlike powers of comprehension and explanation, Eriri, whose intelligence had risen by two hundred percent and who had already seen the truth, was thoroughly bamboozled. "H-how is that possible...? H-how could that guy possibly like me!?"
Back at school, Eriri had fantasized about it too. But the Great Demon King's aura had quickly brought her back to her senses. Now, after hearing Sayuri Sawamura say this, Eriri was...
"Why do you think that little brat wouldn't like you, Eriri?"
"He only ever teases me..." Eriri gritted her teeth and argued, presenting the evidence.
"Then why doesn't he tease anyone else?" Sayuri Sawamura countered. "Besides, a lot of boys use teasing as a clumsy way to get a girl's attention..."
Fortunately, Sogo Doma wasn't there. Otherwise, he would've spat out his salt soda. He didn't tease anyone else? Ma'am, did you forget how you ended up as an old lady?
Eriri Sawamura: "..."
Um, what her mom was saying... she'd, she'd kind of thought the same thing herself!
"But then he..." Eriri brought up another example.
Sayuri Sawamura began to explain. "Because..."
After Sayuri Sawamura's godlike powers of comprehension (and imagination) had carried them through a back-and-forth, mother and daughter looked at each other. Sayuri Sawamura wore a rather strange expression as she said:
"He's done all that, and you're sure he doesn't like you?" He teased Eriri to get her attention, and he didn't mind that Eriri drew doujinshi. She'd even finished Fatherly Love Is Like a Mountain under his guidance. And when Aki had only just started preparing to harass Eriri, he'd already retaliated...
If that didn't count as liking someone, Sayuri Sawamura wondered what did.
Eriri Sawamura's eyes went round: (⊙⊙)
Now that her mom put it like that, it