"Don't you think he's mocking me?" The Black Hearted Little Girl said indignantly, "Obviously that woman is better than me, even if just a little, but I'm not the type who can't afford to lose!"
"Such a conscience-less compliment! I don't want it!"
Shirakawa Sawahei was silent for a while, then asked, "You say he's vain and insincere, just because he got this wrong?"
"If he were really that good, he wouldn't even miss this bit." She snorted coldly, "Others might not see it, but can I not see it?"
"That woman is definitely playing dumb just to catch people off guard!"
"..."
While the image the Little Girl portrayed does resemble how Miss Kaori usually acts, aren't you being overly cautious?
Could it be past experiences of her pretending just to smack you down have traumatized you, like PTSD? So even though you've surpassed Hayakawa Kashi in piano skills now, you still think she is definitely pretending to be weak.