"Sorry, Mashiro, my sister was a little rude. Sis, this is Mashiro Shiina..." Faced with Yukinoshita Haruno, who seemed somewhat flustered and genuinely so, the younger sister was surprised that her usually perfect sister had not only overlooked someone else, but had failed to smooth things over afterward with her usual deft words. Instead, she had asked like some clueless fool who the other person was—
Wasn't that plainly telling Mashiro that she had not noticed her just now? Let alone perfection, that behavior did not even meet the most basic standards of social etiquette. If their mother saw her acting like that, then...
What on earth was wrong with her sister?
However, Yukinoshita Haruno had not realized that at all. Her attention had been completely drawn to Mashiro's name. If her memory was correct, this was Mashiro Shiina's room. She had even speculated about Mashiro Shiina's relationship with that bastard Doma. Clearly, her earlier guess had been wrong. This girl had not separated from that bastard Doma, but...
That did not mean there was no problem! Just the fact that an unfamiliar beautiful girl had appeared in that bastard Doma's house—no, the fact that she had a room in that bastard Doma's house was already a huge problem. Since they did not even share a surname, this girl could not possibly be another little sister of that bastard Doma, could she? Once blood relations were ruled out, wasn't this cohabitation in the romantic sense?
A man and a woman living together? As a quasi-member of society who had never eaten pork but had seen plenty of pigs run, Yukinoshita Haruno's imagination ran wild as she could not help asking again:
"Um, were you two together just now?"
"Of course..." Yukino Yukinoshita was somewhat puzzled. Her sister's performance today was