"Okada was right..." Sogo Doma felt he could give Hijikata a proper lesson. "In my view, rather than saying that most strong people have a few peculiar quirks, it'd be better to say that they can all stay true to themselves..."
"Stay true to themselves?" It wasn't empty boasting to say that X-point tropes were more than a decade ahead of other countries. What Celestial Empire netizen couldn't casually toss out these impressive-sounding yet incomprehensible terms? It couldn't be helped—people with wild imaginations had long since broken down every kind of leveling system in exhaustive detail, and issues of temperament like this—
Had already been explained countless times. Sogo Doma could say without hesitation, "I'm standing on the shoulders of giants too..."
"Stay true to oneself?" Forget idiots like Okada—even Utaha Kasumigaoka found the statement quite meaningful. As she murmured it, she fell into thought.
"I get it..." Just then, Ozawa suddenly looked enlightened. "No wonder Vice... Mr. Hijikata said Boss Kondo stripped at every turn because it was in his nature. Since he was a gorilla to begin with, as an animal, his true nature was to return to nature. Human clothing was nothing more than a restraint to him..."
"I see. Then the reason Mr. Katsura and Mr. Otae wore women's clothes was because they were originally obsessed with them..."
"But why women's clothes?" Ozawa murmured.
"Who knows?" Okada said. "Isn't Mr. Hijikata obsessed with mayonnaise too? If eating mayonnaise could make someone stronger, I might believe it..."
Sogo Doma: "..."
No, no, saying mayonnaise could make someone stronger was a stretch too!
"Indeed..." Before Ozawa could speak, another team member said, "Vice... If someone endured enormous mental torment every day like Mr. Hijikata, perhaps it could make them even stronger..."
"Huh!?" Sogo Doma was once again speechless.