"Mr. Katsura and Mr. Otae were both proud, upright men. Wearing women's clothes should have felt humiliating to them, right? Yet, just like Mr. Hijikata, they gritted their teeth and persevered. Even dressed as women, they kept their backs straight. Even when scorned by others, they stood tall..." Following Okada, Ozawa became excited as well.
"Isn't this just like how Mr. Hijikata used the food he hated most to temper himself? What supported them and let them persist? I think it must have been the true self the captain spoke of! A strong true self, one unafraid of others' judgment. Preserving one's true self means tempering one's spirit and continuously growing stronger. That's what it means to preserve your true self!"
"..." After a long silence, Sogo Doma finally said faintly, "Ozawa, are you writing an essay or giving a speech?"
"Huh?" Ozawa froze at the question. "Isn't that what the captain meant?"
"If wearing women's clothes can temper your spirit and make you stronger, then wouldn't Okada going naked be even more humiliating and even better for tempering himself?" Sogo Doma increasingly felt that he simply could not understand how these idiots thought.
"That's right, that's right..." Okada nodded along from the side. "If wearing women's clothes can make you stronger, then if I don't wear any clothes..."
"Okada, don't forget that Vice... Mr. Hijikata also said that becoming stronger had to be based on the major premise of not inconveniencing others." Ozawa did not dare refute Sogo Doma, but he had plenty to say against Okada. "Going out in women's clothes might only make people look at you strangely, but going out naked would make people think you were an exposed HENTAI..."
"Why do you people think wearing women's clothes won't make others think you're a HENTAI?" Facing