When it came to something as minor as maturity, girls often developed earlier than boys. And as a precocious closet otaku, Utaha Kasumigaoka had far more "experience" with doujinshi than Umaru Doma. If that experience were ranked, she would definitely be at master level. Even Sogo Doma had to admit he was inferior to her in that regard—though only in theory...
Sogo Doma seemed to have overlooked that point, making Utaha Kasumigaoka feel somewhat offended. A pure eye for appreciating art? Compared to Sogo-kun, her skin still wasn't thick enough—who studied art while reading 18X material?
"Viewing it as art? Sogo-kun, you really think highly of it. May I ask what artistic forms or techniques you saw in this work?"
After telling one lie, one often needed countless more lies to cover up the first. Sogo Doma had finally verified that saying through personal experience. Why was Utaha still fixated on him? Did she want to destroy his great and righteous image too? Its artistic value, huh?
This work had artistic value my ass. If the two in front of him were uncultured, he might have been able to bluff his way through it, but they just happened to be... Setting Utaha Kasumigaoka aside, even the useless little sister he had personally raised—though he always called her useless, this dumpling had actually achieved near perfection in almost every respect, including art appreciation.
They knew their stuff, so they weren't easy to fool! He had to swap the concept around...
"Utaha, you're wrong about that. An eye that appreciates art doesn't necessarily see works of art. It's like how the world doesn't lack beauty, but lacks eyes that can discover beauty. But even if someone has eyes capable of discovering beauty, that doesn't mean everything they see is beautiful scenery, right?"