Aya would love to believe that herself, but she's a bit too seasoned in the school system and in adolescence through it to indulge. It sounds like Flayn recognizes the same. It's a little terrifying when being liked was so socially paramount to get any twigging that you weren't.

Of course, that didn't have to mean letting a couple of bad eggs take up free rent in your head, either. Jealous poo-heads were gonna be jealous poo-heads.

"Well, at any rate, it sounds like Yukimura-kun took care of it. I'm glad. But let me know if you get even a hint of more of that, okay?"