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Looking for some help seeing whether I have understood the usage of だけに in the
below. To summarise the conversation 御園 is saying that she was jealous of 佳奈.
As she was explaining why she was jealous she became embarrassed and tried to
change what she was going to say part way through, leading to the eventual
ツッコミ by the narrator as the three of them spent most of the day eating out
yesterday.

御園 says 音楽科だけに. Is this just to emphasise why she is jealous?(she specialises
in music). edit: Thinking about it I'm not sure that makes sense. I originally
thought she was saying that 佳奈 went to 河井楽器 but now I'm thinking she might be
saying that she went there.

> 「正直言うと、ちょっと佳奈が羨ましかったんです」
>
> 「アホなところが？」
>
> 「違います」
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> 「佳奈すけ佳奈すけって言われて、かわいがっ……」
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> 勢いこんで言って、そこで止まった。
>
> 御園の耳たぶが赤く染まる。
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> 「河井楽器に昨日行ったんです。音楽科 **だけに** 」
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> きりっとした顔で言った。
>
> 一緒に飯食ってただろうが。
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grammar
what does だけに mean in this?
This ～だけに means "precisely because of ～". She said she went to 河合楽器 (shop
name) and it must be natural because she was in the music department.

See also:

  * [Meaning of "だけに"](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/54611/5010)
  * [The meaning of なだけに in this sentence](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/74887/5010)
  * [JGram - だけに](http://www.jgram.org/pages/viewOne.php?tagE=dakeni)
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