Forcing the shoots to grow by pulling them up~!
It wasn't as if Sogo Doma didn't understand that most things couldn't be accomplished in one fell swoop. It wasn't like he could just beguile and egg someone on by telling them, "You've been buffed, now go feed!" and they would charge in without a care in the world. After all, other people weren't complete idiots...
What surprised Sogo Doma, however, was that even Shizuka Hiratsuka—after all, in his mind, a hot-blooded personality was basically synonymous with having no brains, meaning they were easy to fool. Ahem. Still, hot-blooded as Shizuka Hiratsuka was, she wasn't that easy to fool. Perhaps she had been through too much, making her slightly smarter than the average hot-blooded fool.
Or perhaps she had failed too many times, rendering the courage buff Sogo Doma had put on her largely ineffective. Was that self-awareness, or...
In any case, Sogo Doma felt rather helpless. But he had chosen her, so what could he do? He couldn't exactly replace her at the last minute, could he? Leaving aside whether Taihei would still take the bait afterward, he was currently a student under the hot-blooded female teacher's care. To put it simply, he still made his living under Shizuka Hiratsuka's thumb. If she discovered that he was meddling behind the scenes again...
He believed his next two years of high school wouldn't be pleasant, so he could only hold back tears and continue buffing her. "Why can't you have a little more faith in your own charm, Sensei? Sure, you smoke, drink, like street racing, have violent tendencies, are rough around the edges, and so on..."
Shizuka Hiratsuka: #^_^
"You don't need to tell me about those flaws. Anyway..." She clasped her hands behind her head, looking somewhat self-abandoning. "I