"Cough, cough..." The stiff Sogo Doma covered up his guilt with a cough. "Magic power is just a metaphor. Put another way, Utaha, your final volume resonated too deeply with people and could influence readers. That's the greatest affirmation an author can receive..."
"Sogo-kun, you mean conveying ideas through one's work, right..." Utaha Kasumigaoka said, once again clutching both sides of her head. "But I'm not into girls myself either, Sogo-kun. Boyfriend-kun, you can prove that, can't you..."
"Of course..." Sogo Doma did not hesitate in the slightest. After all, he knew that if not for the suggestions from his little sister beside them, Utaha Kasumigaoka alone—no, forget Utaha Kasumigaoka, even if Natsume Soseki, Osamu Dazai, and the others came back to life, there was no way they could have made a work this influential! As for his useless dumpling of a sister, Sogo Doma could only say:
"I verified it with my lips. Utaha definitely doesn't have a thing for girls. What I want to ask is, Utaha, how exactly did Umaru discuss the plot with you back then..."
"How did Umaru discuss the plot with me?" Utaha Kasumigaoka froze at the question. What had Umaru said to her back then? It was a little blurry. She only remembered that when she had been discussing the plot with Umaru, inspiration had surged through her like a flood, and she had wanted nothing more than to immediately write down every story in her mind...
Just as Utaha Kasumigaoka was pondering, hurried footsteps suddenly rang out in the hallway. "Tap, tap, tap..." Then came a voice: "Onii-chan, Utaha, did you hear? The lawmakers over in Ginza have already begun meeting to discuss same-sex marriage!"
Utaha Kasumigaoka: "..."
E-Even Ginza had started?
Just as she was about to question her life once