"Mr. Hijikata, don't make such an ugly face..." Sogo Doma said innocently.
"After all, wasn't I just trying to help Miss Otae be an honest person? On the other hand, you kept stressing that our dojo is a respectable dojo, a prestigious swordsmanship school, and would never covet someone else's inheritance..." Toshiro Hijikata: #^_^ What else was he supposed to say?
Was he supposed to tell their teacher that their dojo was an armed organization, and that those idiots who had just been beaten up were yakuza?
Sogo, did you still want to attend school properly or not? Otae was even more bewildered: "..." How could someone make wrongdoing sound so fresh and refined?
But even as the two of them grumbled inwardly, Sogo Doma was already counting on his fingers. "Mr. Hijikata, by stressing that, aren't you making it clear that Miss Otae is narrow-minded, petty, judging a gentleman's heart with a villain's mind? Maybe you should add being trapped in a well and thinking the sky is small, and being arrogantly self-important..." Shizuka Hiratsuka: "..." As a Japanese teacher, she felt that the way this kid Doma used those expressions... how should she put it? None had been repeated, but... Toshiro Hijikata: "..." Don't talk nonsense. He hadn't said that. Don't just dump the blame on him!
"Although Miss Otae does indeed look narrow-minded and petty, and calling her arrogantly self-important wouldn't exactly be wrong..." Before he could speak, however, Sogo Doma continued, "Mr. Hijikata, we can't judge people solely by appearances. It's not Miss Otae's fault that she's as flat as a board. You can't call her narrow-minded and petty just because of that..." Otae: "..." What did he mean, she really looked narrow-minded and petty... Wait!
That "appearance" was really superficial! Damn it, what was wrong