"How could a gorilla and a human possibly..." Katsura Kotaro's reactions always caught people off guard, yet somehow still made perfect sense. "Wait, I get it. This is the harassment Sogo was talking about—a young woman being harassed by a gorilla, right? Just like the rumors said..." Sogo Doma: "..." Ah, well... all he could say was that he had underestimated Katsura's thought process. Even so, it seemed the gorilla dojo master's public image was beyond saving... Just as he was considering whether to give up on preserving the gorilla's dignity and image and simply fool Katsura into leaving, Isao Kondo spoke up. "Hold it! You damn Katsura, what nonsense are you spouting? Never mind where those rumors came from—just talking about harassment, do I look like the kind of guy who'd harass Miss Otae?"
"Miss Otae, be reasonable..."
"Shut up!" Otae first responded with a sharp rebuke. Perhaps because her tone had gone against the image of a proper Yamato lady, she adjusted it afterward. "This humble woman believes Mr. Katsura's interpretation is correct. What 'love nest' could there possibly be between me and you, a gorilla? Besides..." At that, Otae smiled at Isao Kondo once more before continuing, "My home is not the nest of a gorilla like you! This place—the Kondo Dojo—is your nest!!!" Toshiro Hijikata and the others, even Sogo Doma, were left speechless. "..." By the way, hadn't Kondo completely missed the main point of his rebuttal just now?
Or rather, had he already accepted that he was a gorilla? What made Hijikata and Sogo feel even more affronted and stifled was that Otae had described the Kondo Dojo as a nest—and they could not even refute it!
Because before either of them could say, "No...," Isao Kondo anxiously declared, "This place, this Kondo Dojo,