How did friendships between girls begin? Sogo Doma was quite puzzled by that question. However, for certain simple-minded people with an exceptional ability to take action, someone who had been left off to the side thought, "It was probably something like this..."
"Say, Xihuan, don't you think something's off? These girls are already fooling around this much with people they've only just met. Isn't this a little too overly familiar?" Sogo Doma, isolated to one side as he watched a group of girls chatter away, remarked.
"Oh~!" Xihuan, the aloof teacher, said, "I think this is a good thing. It shows that the children are very capable of socializing with outsiders."
"Uh..." Sogo Doma was rendered speechless by that. After a while, he said, "Xihuan, don't you think you've got your priorities backward? You decided to hold this camping event because of Utako Kasumi's influence, but now the students are directly chatting with the person herself. Isn't that basically the same as..."
"Well, that isn't within my scope of work..." Teacher Xihuan calmly cut him off.
"Show some responsibility, damn it! And why didn't you take Akarin and the others back..." The vein mark on Sogo Doma's forehead kept twitching.
"Because those children said they hadn't seen Umaru for a long time and wanted to be with her. Umaru also agreed, so as their teacher, I approved..."
"Fine, let's say you didn't take Akarin and the others back. Then tell me, why have there ended up being even more people?!" Sogo Doma pointed at the extra group of girls and asked with a kind smile.
"Doma, before asking that, shouldn't you consider how popular Umaru used to be at school? And with Utako Kasumi, who's in the spotlight right now, being here too, it would've been difficult for me to