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"Think about it—just five yen, and I'll make a move against Hijikata..."
"Uh..." Watching Sogo Doma pitch it like he was selling merchandise, Ozawa and the others felt far more than mere embarrassment. More importantly, "Captain, does that mean if we don't pay, you won't make a move against Mr. Hijikata?"
"How could that be?" The moment he said that, Sogo Doma looked at them as if they were idiots. "Hijikata and I are brothers-in-arms to the death. If we don't settle who lives and who dies, what kind of brothers-in-arms to the death would we be?"
"Then why the hell do we have to pay?" Ozawa could not hold it in.
"Good question..." Sogo Doma suddenly felt these guys were not quite as dumb as he had thought. "Don't you think that would give me even more motivation to kill Hijikata?"
"This..."
"Just thinking about how so many people hate Mr. Hijikata to the bone makes me feel that taking him out would be ridding the people of a scourge, wouldn't it?" Sogo, partner of justice, Doma.
"Um, Captain, calling it ridding the people of a scourge is going a bit too far, isn't it? No matter how you look at it, Vice... Mr. Hijikata hasn't reached that level, has he?"
"Then why are you paying?" Sogo Doma shot back.
"Wait a minute..." Okada and the others said, "Captain, we never said we were going to pay in the first place! You're the one talking to yourself..."
"Hm?" Before they could finish, Sogo Doma questioned them again. "Don't you want to live easy days every day? Even if you say your lives are pretty fulfilling right now, there are times when you get mentally exhausted, right? And think about it—Mr. Hijikata is a demon who doesn't care whether