"..." Perhaps because Sogo Doma had been too eager to sell Taihei off, Shizuka Hiratsuka vaguely caught onto something. She scratched her hair. "Leaving aside the fact that this is still nowhere close to happening..."
"If not, why would I be acting as your relationship consultant?" Sogo Doma said with a look of utter exasperation. "To put it simply, I just want to boost Shizuka Hiratsuka's appeal a little..." Basically: you've been buffed, don't chicken out, now deliver!
"Doma..." Shizuka Hiratsuka's eye twitched. "Is this your roundabout way of saying this old lady doesn't have enough feminine charm?"
"..." Opening her mouth with "this old lady," closing it with "this old lady"—did this woman really have any feminine charm at all? Sogo Doma had serious doubts about Shizuka Hiratsuka's self-awareness. If anyone else had been asked that question by a female teacher, it would have been difficult to answer. But this was her.
"Shizuka Hiratsuka, why do women always think they need feminine charm to attract men? Sure, most people find delicate women beautiful, but strong, dashing career women have their own unique appeal too, don't they?" More importantly, his stupid little sister had enough wifely charm to put most girls to shame.
Sogo Doma felt that trying to attract his stupid little sister through feminine charm would be far too difficult—far, far too difficult. It would be better to take the opposite approach. Taihei, after all, had a pretty strong masochistic streak. The simplest example was that he would get angry over someone's laziness, but if that person stopped being so lazy, Taihei would go utterly insane because he felt useless...
Still, those words struck right at Shizuka Hiratsuka's heart. As a woman who had dared to strike out on her own, the hot-blooded female teacher naturally held ideas