"Looks like I guessed right, emmm..." Sogo Doma, who had known everything from the start, raised a finger again and said with a smile, "It's like the world's richest man taking a look at a beggar's rice bowl..." Otae: #^_^
"What exactly are you trying to say?" Her resentment had hit max, and her anger had already reached its critical point.
"It's very simple..." Even so, Sogo Doma's smile did not fade. "Perhaps the world's richest man was merely curious that someone could live with such low efficiency, yet the beggar became wary that the richest man wanted to steal his rice bowl. Don't you think that's laughable?" Otae: "..." Before she could speak, Sogo Doma turned to the Demon Vice-Chief beside him and asked again, "Mr. Hijikata, don't you think it's laughable?"
"..." Toshiro Hijikata fell silent. Even though he himself was rather dissatisfied with Otae, for Kondo Isao's sake, he could only try his best to tolerate her. It couldn't be helped—his commander had become utterly devoted to this woman.
Besides, Otae was only quite repulsed by Kondo Isao. She had not actually fallen out with the Kondo Group.
As for her rejecting Kondo Isao, or even beating him up, Toshiro did not consider that a big deal—after all, that gorilla did it willingly.
If Otae had not dragged the gorilla here to pick a fight today, Toshiro Hijikata would have been too lazy to meddle in their business. Though he was not particularly versed in the feelings between men and women, he knew what it meant to put in effort without gaining any thanks... Put it this way: if Otae had not thrown punches at those foolish squad members, Toshiro's first reaction definitely would not have been anger or rage, but helplessness, a headache, and figuring out