"Just now, Sogo-kun seemed to say a whole lot, but he actually never mentioned anything about the manager and the others' attitudes, did he?" Utaha Kasumigaoka smiled, looking exactly like Sogo Doma when they had first met.
Someone who had thought he had already muddled through it gave an awkward laugh. "..."
Umaru Doma suddenly realized it too. "That's true. Big brother only said there was a small conflict, and then the manager and the others became like this. But he completely skipped over what exactly happened!"
Faced with their questions, Sogo Doma's thoughts raced. "Don't you think it's better to keep a little mystery around something like this?"
"So Sogo-kun wants us to investigate it ourselves?" Utaha Kasumigaoka asked, resting her chin in her hands.
"Like detectives..." Umaru Doma added from the side.
Sogo Doma hurriedly activated his interruption skill. "It hasn't reached the point where you need to investigate! Can't you just reasonably imagine how, as a member of the Elite Ten, I conquered the entire restaurant with my cooking...?"
"But if it was only cooking, it shouldn't have made the people in the restaurant this terrified. Especially that Oto-something—he'd already gone so far as to kneel in apology. There must be..." Utaha Kasumigaoka speculated.
"After conquering the entire restaurant, I turned into a demon consultant and put them through ultimate special training. Isn't that a perfectly reasonable guess?" Sogo Doma continued.
"But that sounds just like some kind of scripted plot..." Utaha Kasumigaoka did not believe him at all.
"Art comes from life, Utaha!" Sogo Doma said with heartfelt indignation. "And here I thought you were an artist..."
"Calling me an artist is too embarrassing..." Utaha Kasumigaoka turned her face away. "At most, I'm just a light novel writ—"
"Every profession is an art of life!"
"Utaha,