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For some reason, Sogo Doma felt offended. He also had no idea whether someone was plotting against him—how could luck be called...
"Ahem..." Setting aside a certain unfathomable trait, Sogo Doma coughed twice. "Whether he wins or not isn't important. What I mean is, Hijikata..."
"Cap..." Before he could finish, Okada couldn't help saying, "Aren't you worried that Mr. Hijikata might get lucky..."
"Lucky?" It would have been fine if he hadn't brought it up, but at the mention of luck, Sogo Doma nearly lost it again. "He's just a Hijikata. If it weren't for luck... Ahem, if it weren't..."
"Captain, you were about to say he was lucky, weren't you?" Okada said awkwardly.
Sogo Doma: "..."
He had always thought the Kondo Group's members were merely idiots. Who would have thought these idiots had no tact, either? What did they mean, get lucky? Wasn't he unlucky? What a joke...
"Coincidence, purely a coincidence!" he gritted out. "Hijikata..."
"But Captain, you've made a move against Mr. Hijikata over a hundred times..." This time, it was Ozawa. "If it wasn't luck but coincidence, aren't there a few too many coincidences?"
"..." Sogo Doma's eye twitched. "It's skill. At the end of the day, Hijikata's strength can be considered formidable too. He's managed to evade over a hundred of my attacks..."
Utaha Kasumigaoka: "..."
Shouldn't he have said that the other guy was incredibly lucky at a time like this? Why was he admitting that the other guy was strong?
"Mr. Hijikata really is powerful..." Okada quite agreed with that assessment. "But Captain isn't weak either, right? You had the advantage of preparation..."
"So it really was because Mr. Hijikata was lucky, wasn't it?"
"Rather than saying Mr. Hijikata is lucky, wouldn't it be more accurate to say the captain's luck