"Like a woman!"
"Like a woman!"
"A woman!"
Shizuka Hiratsuka took two hard drags from her cigarette before finally suppressing the rage in her chest. What did he mean, like a woman? Wasn't she a woman—no, damn it, a lady? That bastard Doma, that bastard...
Damn it, why was that bastard so good at fighting? If it had been one of Sobu High School's students, forget still standing—they'd be lying in a hospital for a month. Otherwise, she'd be letting down her title as the undefeated Iron Fist!
"Cough, cough..." Sogo Doma coughed a few times as well. His only mistake had been being too blunt. Though he had never thought of Shizuka Hiratsuka as a woman in his heart, he said, "What I meant was that Hiratsuka-sensei is every bit the equal of any man—a true heroine among women. Can you understand it that way, Sensei?"
"..." Shizuka Hiratsuka finally understood what it meant to twist black into white and distort right and wrong. This bastard before her definitely had the potential to become a politician. Even she had to admit defeat before his ability to lie with his eyes open. Yet somehow, she could actually accept it. "Fine. Then I was only asking how exactly you managed to grow up this much. If you hadn't been born into the Doma Family..."
Sogo Doma: "..."
That was offensive!
"Sorry for being born into the Doma Family, then..."
"Haa..." Shizuka Hiratsuka exhaled a long stream of smoke again. "Too bad even the Doma Family can't tolerate your wasteful ways anymore, can they?" She phrased a question as a statement.
"It's one thing for you to squander your own family's money, but why drag Taihei into it too? Are you trying to turn your nii-san into someone like you?"
"How could