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"What's more, when he left, he couldn't stop praising Mr. Hijikata..." As Sogo Doma silently mourned for the gorilla, Ozawa continued, "To our shame, it was only then that we came to understand the vice... Mr. Hijikata's painstaking intentions."
"Painstaking intentions?"
"Yes. Even the people from the Shinomiya Family said that Mr. Hijikata was one of the few men left in this age who still adhered to his own path." Ozawa spoke with great sincerity. Though he hid it well, Sogo Doma could still see a trace of longing on his face.
"..." What was wrong with this world? Even someone with Hijikata's mayonnaise obsession and nicotine addiction could become an object of admiration? More importantly, that guy Hijikata was strict as hell, both with others and himself! He made the members undergo such inhuman training, yet no one resented him? This...
Wasn't it great enough to just laze through life one day at a time? Sloth was one of humanity's seven deadly sins! Had these idiots messed up their thinking? Unfortunately, he couldn't say such things aloud, but that didn't stump Sogo Doma:
"Actually, Hijikata isn't as great as you think..." He was already thoroughly practiced at smearing people, and besides, this wasn't even slander. Others might not know, but could he possibly not know what kind of trash Hijikata was?
"Captain, your prejudice against the vice... Mr. Hijikata is really too deep," Ozawa and the others said quietly.
"What prejudice? I'm thinking of your best interests..." Naturally, Sogo Doma refused to admit it. Then he paused. "Wait, the reason you didn't want to pay up wasn't because you wanted to protect that bastard Hijikata, was it?"
"Huh?" Ozawa froze for a moment, then forced a laugh. "Ha, haha, h-how could that be? We just felt that we