"What does Gui Long's success have to do with whether Taihei should support himself?" Shizuka Hiratsuka asked, puzzled.
"Since the old man was so good at making money, wouldn't it be a waste of his talent if his kids didn't know how to squander it?" Sogo Doma said, wearing an expression that clearly said, How do you not get this? "But Taihei? Forget squandering money—he even openly claimed he didn't want to rely on his family and wanted to work hard on his own..."
"..." Shizuka Hiratsuka had long known that the bastard before her was full of rotten ideas, but she had never expected them to be this rotten. What did he mean, not squandering money would waste his father's talent for making it? It was obviously twisted logic, so why could he say it with such righteous confidence? If someone who didn't know the situation heard him, they might really think Taihei was the one with a problem!
"Doma!" If anyone else had said that, Shizuka Hiratsuka probably wouldn't even have bothered responding. But setting aside Sogo Doma's certain unspeakable identities, he was still her student! As a teacher who could, at the very least, be called responsible, no matter how much of a headache he gave her, she still wanted to cleanse those rotten notions from his mind. "Since Gui Long was able to achieve success through his own efforts, why is there something wrong with Taihei doing the same?"
"It's simple. In your eyes, my little brother's dad worked his way up through his own efforts, but the resources he had at his disposal back then were far greater than those of a low-level employee like Taihei. Second, my little brother's dad worked so hard for so long precisely to give his children a higher starting