A father's jealousy... pfft, resentment was a terrifying thing. Still, it was only natural. Keiryu Doma had worked his ass off for half his life, yet the Doma Family had remained half-dead. But under Sogo's handling, the Doma Family's rise had been faster than a rocket launch. What the hell had all that hard work been for?!
Keiryu Doma already had fairly strong mental fortitude. If an ordinary person encountered something like this, they would have retired long ago, gone home to hold their daughters and grandchildren. Yet he had merely evolved into a daughter-obsessed father, and even still found the time to manage the group's affairs. From a certain perspective, his psychological resilience truly was formidable... Unfortunately, Sogo had not even given Keiryu Doma the chance to be a daughter-obsessed father. Though compared to most upper-class families, the Doma Family was already warm and close-knit, and Umaru got along quite well with her father, these things depended on who you compared them with. Whenever he saw the way Sogo and Umaru interacted... Keiryu Doma felt that the cigarette in his hand tasted worse, his tea had lost its flavor, and even sleep was no longer satisfying. Damn Sogo!
He just had to find an opportunity. When he did, he would definitely screw the brat over! That opportunity soon arrived. If the Shiina Family's and Natsukawa Family's declarations had left Keiryu Doma quite satisfied, then Gan'an Shinomiya's probing remarks truly came as a pleasant surprise—
"Tsk, tsk. That brat Sogo intends to swallow up the Shinomiya Family. Though given Sogo's abilities, that isn't much of a big deal..." Doma, inflated, Keiryu thought, "But crushing them from within, even annexing them from within, is the simplest and most direct method. That way, even Sogo won't be able to refuse, right? And