Toshiro Hijikata carefully considered everything Sogo had just said and done—for example, how he had frantically encouraged Otae to actually punch Boss Kondo in the head... In truth, the reason Hijikata had managed to restrain his urge to act and merely "calmly" reason with Otae, even making excuses for various things, was partly because there were two "cultured people" present—Utaha and Shizuka Hiratsuka—and partly because of Boss Kondo's own behavior, as well as Kondo's feelings toward Otae... Well, although the Kondo Group had always sided with their own rather than reason, even if they later discovered it was their own people's fault, at most they would put the offender in solitary confinement or make him write a self-criticism, with seppuku being the absolute harshest punishment. Of course, no one had committed a crime serious enough to warrant seppuku so far, but... was this what one should expect from Boss Kondo, the gorilla who was always itching to cause trouble?
He had effortlessly achieved something none of the members had managed before. Setting everything else aside, merely stalking and following an innocent girl was enough for Hijikata to sentence Isao Kondo to seppuku!
Not to mention that the gorilla had not merely stalked someone—he had also attracted a "powerful" enemy because of it, resulting in injuries to quite a few members. If this had been anyone else, Hijikata might well have personally served as his second!
Yet the one who had made such a mistake was Boss Kondo. What could Hijikata do? No matter how unwilling he was, he had to clean up after him. After all, Isao Kondo was not only his savior, but also his mentor and the commander he followed!
Sigh... Of course, for Hijikata, covering up Boss Kondo's perverted behavior was not difficult. The difficult part was