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"An undiscovered crime is no crime" was not merely a joke!
Corresponding to the samurai practice of seppuku, this nation had a culture known as "shame." Its meaning was that everyone had to feel ashamed of the mistakes they committed, and shame could only be washed away with blood—that was, through seppuku...
Though this appeared to be a culture of strict self-discipline, when paired with "an undiscovered crime is no crime," it became quite thought-provoking. That was right: this nation's culture of shame deemed only mistakes noticed by others to be shameful. If you hid them well enough, then there was no need to feel ashamed.
They were not ashamed of what they had done wrong, but only that their wrongdoing had been discovered. This was also the point Sogo Doma found hardest to accept. The simplest example was how they could shamelessly falsify textbooks...
In fact, the main reason Sogo Doma had transferred to Totsuki during middle school was precisely this. It was also the most important reason so many members of "high society" had looked down on him.
"Um, there's something wrong in the textbook..." Doma, first-year middle school student, Sogo: "The XX War was absolutely not a just war. I believe that if we want to earn the other side's forgiveness, we should sincerely apologize and offer our heartfelt goodwill. After that, we could take advantage of the Celestial Empire doing something stupid and have the two countries unite against them..." He spoke eloquently, arguing his case with reason.
A certain first-year middle school teacher: "..."
Had the person saying this not been the heir of a prestigious family, he could have expelled him. Yet even the Doma Family of that time could not prevent Sogo from having his parents summoned.
Afterward, Keiryu Doma had said