"Being unharmed by smoke just means you've trained yourself until you're tough enough to take a beating. Shizuka Hiratsuka, you've practiced fighting too—haven't you heard that if you want to learn how to fight, you first need to learn how to get hit? Think about Otae and the others' fists. Without powerful bodies to back them up, what makes her so fierce?"
"Actually, being unharmed by smoke has absolutely nothing to do with smoke. It's just that the attack didn't break through their defenses in the first place."
"..." The moment he finished speaking, Shizuka Hiratsuka's eye twitched. "Then why do you call it being unharmed by smoke!?"
"To fool people, of course..." Sogo Doma shrugged. "It may be a bit far-fetched, but at least it's an explanation. It can fool people, more or less..."
"..." Before he could finish, Shizuka Hiratsuka and Utaha Kasumigaoka were already breaking out in cold sweat. That explanation wasn't merely far-fetched—it was complete nonsense!
Would anyone really be fooled by that? Wait a second, apparently they had been fooled... But...
"Are you all really that absurdly... ridiculously strong?"
"Shizuka Hiratsuka, what you really wanted to say was 'hentai,' right?" Sogo Doma maintained his smile. "Of course, that isn't strange. Or rather, perhaps I should say that's exactly why we need to fool you. Even a teacher who has received an elite higher education finds this hard to accept, so other people would find it even harder. Back in ancient times, we might even have been mistaken for demons..." Shizuka Hiratsuka and Utaha Kasumigaoka: "..." Umm... that wasn't impossible!
Wait a second!
"Why are you telling me this?" Shizuka Hiratsuka hesitated.
"Because you climbed over the wall, Shizuka Hiratsuka..." Sogo Doma raised his index finger again. "After listening to me, you wanted to sneak a