"Captain, even if Otae is a woman, how could a gorilla possibly fall for a human female? Reality isn't some Beauty and the Beast play..."
Sogo Doma: "..."
I see, so that was it! So that was how it was? He was utterly speechless...
Come to think of it, what kind of image did goril—Kondo Isao have in everyone else's eyes? Even these idiot squad members had already started treating him as a gorilla?
Though countless retorts ran through his mind, he said, "Okada, didn't you just say you wanted to become a man like Kondo Isao? In other words, you want to become gorillas?"
"Captain, the 'man' in manly means a real man..." The moment Sogo Doma finished speaking, Okada got worked up again. "It has nothing to do with status, or even species. It is an instinct that exists within every male creature..."
"..." Before the other man could finish, Sogo Doma had already experienced the meaning of sheer embarrassment. "Wait, who told you all that?"
"Huh?" Okada looked confused. "Is there something wrong with that? Katsura and the vice commander both said so?"
"Hijikata actually admitted that goril—Kondo Isao is a gorilla?" Sogo Doma froze.
"Does something like that need to be admitted?" Okada was even more baffled. "Umm... Kondo Isao may have hidden it well, but we know how to observe things too."
"You know how to observe?" Sogo Doma's eye twitched. These idiots knew what observation was? No, perhaps it was precisely because they were idiots...
"Don't look down on us, Captain..." As someone kept snarking inwardly, Okada argued, "You made it so obvious. If we still hadn't noticed, wouldn't that have made us idiots?"
"..." Huh!? Sogo Doma paused—what did that mean? Was it because of him? Could it have been because of him?