Hijikata could even evade Sogo's assassinations on instinct. When facing the assassins sent by certain
"normal people," Hijikata: "..." In his own words, it was probably something like: "Compared to Sogo, these guys trying to cause me trouble are as weak as chicks. This probably isn't Sogo's doing. Such crude assassination methods aren't even worth looking at. Still, I can use them to sharpen my vigilance..." If the masterminds behind the dark web knew that was what Hijikata thought, they would probably feel like dying. After all their analysis, the one thing they believed could make the Doma Family feel the pain had treated them as sparring partners... Unfortunately, the big shots behind the scenes were rather thrilled by this. Before sending assassins after Hijikata, they had already prepared to flee. Some had even written their wills, while others had considered turning themselves in—perhaps prison, or rather, a private cell, would be safer than the outside world?
With their status, getting a private cell should not have been difficult, right? No matter how crazy the Doma Family was, they could not possibly go directly against the Bald Eagle, could they?
And yet, after they sent out the assassins, the retaliation they had imagined never came. Although every assassin they dispatched vanished without a trace, they had not suffered the Doma Family's crazed retaliation either!
Think of their predecessors—cough, cough. Though they did not know how their predecessors had provoked the Doma Family, what had those predecessors done in the face of the Doma Family's frenzied retaliation?
The only thing they could do was pass the dark web on to juniors like them. Of course, Sogo Doma had no idea about any of this. Otherwise, he would definitely have told them, "Where there is darkness, there is light. I'm no champion