"Yukinoshita, would you call this malicious slander?" Sogo Doma sneered, feeling rather offended. He had only instinctively refuted her claim. What was wrong with taking sick leave on the grounds of having a 43-degree fever?
"This is called a well-intentioned reminder..." Yukino Yukinoshita crossed her arms. "Mashiro is far too naïve. I merely wanted her to understand how treacherous people can be..."
"I see..." Sogo Doma smiled at that. "So this is what they mean by: 'treacherous Yukinoshita, slandering others with such conviction'?"
"Whether it's slander or not, Doma knows perfectly well..." Yukino Yukinoshita showed no guilt whatsoever. "Perhaps the Baumkuchen explanation was mistaken, but the fact remains that you pretended to be ill to deceive people."
"Sogo pretended to be sick?" Mashiro, standing nearby, asked in confusion as soon as the words left her mouth.
"No..." That was Sogo Doma. If he admitted to faking it now, wouldn't it be exposed the moment that useless little sister came back?
"Yes!" That was Yukino Yukinoshita. Though she did not know why Sogo Doma was pretending to be sick, as someone who upheld justice, she would never tolerate fraud. A 43-degree fever? Who was he trying to fool?
"Sogo?" The utterly different answers left Mashiro Shiina even more confused.
Sogo Doma: "..."
Looking at Mashiro, and then at the situation before him, even if he did not need to pretend, he had no choice but to keep it up now! Besides, he had to pretend!
"Yukinoshita, why are you so convinced that I'm faking an illness to deceive people? Sigh..." Sogo Doma sighed. "I'm even wearing a green onion around my neck."
"Does hanging a green onion around your neck automatically mean you have a fever? Going by Doma's logic, if I wrapped some bandages around my hand, would that mean