"Mr. Hijikata..." Sogo Doma still held control of the conversation. "You—no, all of us were wrong. We were so concerned about the gorilla's dignity and sense of shame that we failed to point out that it was wrong for it not to wear clothes!" Toshiro Hijikata: "..." Indeed, he had been too young back then!
But who had suggested doing that in the first place? Before he could protest, Sogo Doma spoke again. "We always thought the gorilla didn't wear clothes because it was in its nature, but now it seems that it was influenced by something even more terrifying..."
"Something even more terrifying?" Before he could finish, Toshiro Hijikata, who had finally come back to his senses, asked hesitantly.
"Mm!" Sogo Doma nodded. "Its bottom line. The gorilla dojo master must have awakened some strange traits after breaking through its own bottom line..."
"It broke through its own bottom line?"
"That's right..." Sogo Doma said firmly. "Mr. Hijikata, think carefully. When I first came to the dojo, the gorilla dojo master was still a gorilla, but it didn't have the habit of going around without clothes..." Shizuka Hiratsuka: "..." Why did that sound like the mastermind was confessing?
"That's true..." Toshiro Hijikata nodded. "Come to think of it, when did Boss Kondo start disliking clothes so much?"
"That isn't important..." Sogo Doma hurriedly said. "What's important is the reason. Mr. Hijikata, don't you think it was because we chose to tolerate it from the very beginning..." Toshiro Hijikata: "..." He had to repeat it a hundred million times—who exactly had suggested this in the first place?!
And what did this have to do with awakening strange traits?
"Because we tolerated it again and again," Sogo Doma explained, seemingly answering Toshiro Hijikata's doubts, "the gorilla dojo master's sense of shame