Probably because there were so many yakuza in the Kondo Group, even Yamazaki had once been incredibly flamboyant. After all, he was Great Ogre Yamazaki—Mohawks were his true nature.
With someone like Yamazaki taking over as captain, even Sogo Doma could no longer make heads or tails of the Kondo Group's current ecosystem. When they argued that they weren't Yamada but Ueda and so on, he wore an exceedingly benevolent smile, yet Ueda still didn't back down. Perhaps that was all Hijikata's doing.
Still, Ono-san... Ono's sudden breakdown was indeed something Sogo Doma hadn't anticipated. And then there was Ya—cough, cough, Ueda... It was just fucking ridiculous, you know?
Back when he, Sogo Doma, had served as captain of the First Division in the Kondo Group, which member hadn't revered and admired him? But Ueda and these guys...
Forget him—even Utaha Kasumigaoka was completely baffled. If they were talking about who had spotted Shizuka Hiratsuka first, she was definitely the first one. Yet Sogo had said there was no one there and even suggested they go back.
That alone would have been one thing, but Ono had clearly already spotted Shizuka-sensei, and yet...
Sogo Doma was actually quite helpless. As a one-hundred-percent couch potato, his first reaction upon seeing Shizuka Hiratsuka lying in wait was: Pretend we didn't see her. Retreat!
Even if he knew that the hot-blooded female teacher was trying to take a gamble because of the bait he had laid, wouldn't it have been better for her to come find him? Why couldn't Hijikata kill him? It wasn't that Sogo Doma was awkwardly bragging, but it was probably because Hijikata had guarded against him so much that it had become instinctive. Cough, cough...
Sogo Doma had long known that the Kondo Group was an exceptionally bizarre place.