"Ms. Hiratsuka, some people may be very strong themselves, but when it comes to teaching others... heh heh..."
"What do you mean?" Shizuka Hiratsuka was taken aback by Sogo Doma's words.
"Is that hard to understand? Then I'll put it plainly. If I'm not mistaken, Ms. Hiratsuka, you already got in touch with Miss Otae a couple of days ago, right?" The moment he finished speaking, Shizuka Hiratsuka was shocked:!
That kid Doma's guess had been way too accurate, hadn't it? That was right—the process by which the hot-blooded female teacher connected with the down-and-out female dojo master had been remarkably smooth. Of course, that was also thanks to Otae having met Shizuka Hiratsuka at the Kondo Dojo before... Come to think of it, it wasn't strange at all. Although Otae's favorable impression of that Kondo gorilla was practically zero, her dislike for him wasn't all that strong either. After all, aside from being clingy, rather perverted, and so on, Kondo Isao had never actually done anything to her!
If the one who had fallen for Otae had not been that gorilla—cough cough... Kondo Isao—but someone else, they might have used their status and power to threaten and tempt her. As a strong woman who had supported her family's dojo alone, and who even had to smile and drink with customers to make a living, Otae understood better than anyone just how dark the corners untouched by sunlight could be!
Well, thanks to her own combat ability and the Kondo Group's protection, Otae understood such things without ever encountering anything too terrible herself. Still, even if she had never eaten pork, she had at least seen pigs run, right?
Among the people Otae knew, there were many who, for all sorts of reasons, had...
"Stopped trying"... Precisely because she had