Among the people in the Doma Family whom Sogo Doma was wary of, Keiryu Doma ranked near the top. The reason he had trained the man into such an outstanding capitalist, given him the Eye of God, and so on, was so that he could... what was it again—stop always setting his sights on Umaru. If not for the fact that Umaru needed a father figure while growing up, he...
In the end, the Doma Family simply lacked that kind of foundation. Look at how the Shinomiya Family did things. They used men like beasts of burden and women like men. Kaguya Shinomiya had received brutally strict elite education from childhood. Fatherly love? Motherly love? They simply did not exist. Unlike Umaru—he, as her Onii-chan, still had to compete with that old man of his for her affection. It was freaking absurd!
And it was not just the Shinomiya Family. Even the Yukinoshita Family was like that. Mr. Yukinoshita did give Tai—cough, cough, Yukino a certain amount of fatherly love, but compared to that rotten old man Keiryu Doma... Sogo Doma had no idea how many tricks he had used just to secure the top spot in his little sister's heart!
If it had only been Taihei, he would not have needed to do so much. That rotten old man of his was wicked. If he was not careful, he would catch the man desperately trying to make his presence known in front of Umaru. Sogo Doma still remembered when he had given Umaru a real gun to try out. What had Keiryu Doma said? "Sogo, you actually gave her a real gun..."
But once Umaru expressed her satisfaction, his words became, "Actually, playing with guns isn't impossible. But... Umaru, what do you think of air guns?"
What an old