At dusk, Chiba Village.
"Doma!!!" Shizuka Hiratsuka, brimming with resentment, finally found the culprit after the event had ended.
"What's wrong? Oh, right, I heard getting angry makes people age faster..." Sogo Doma hadn't wanted to come back either, but he couldn't exactly spend the night out in the wilderness, could he?
"Teacher, you're not exactly young anymore. If you keep getting so angry..." The moment he said that, Hayato and the others, who had been about to chime in, promptly shut up—the Doma Family was too far removed from their lives for them to have any real impression of it, but calling Shizuka Hiratsuka old right in front of her? That alone left them speechless. This guy really was brave!
"And whose fault do you think that is..." Shizuka Hiratsuka said at first, before her expression abruptly changed. "Bastard, who are you calling not young!?"
"If I said I wasn't young..." Upon hearing that, Hachiman Hikigaya and the others actually breathed a sigh of relief. So this guy did know how to show some respect after all!
Shizuka Hiratsuka was quite satisfied as well. Putting all the other nonsense aside, at least she still commanded plenty of authority in this brat's heart, right?
But just as they were thinking that, Sogo Doma suddenly changed tack. "Wouldn't that just make you seem even older, Hiratsuka-sensei? After all, you're not just a little older than us, but..." Hayato and the others: "..." Sorry, they had been wrong. They shouldn't have tried to judge this guy using ordinary people's logic. Still, he was going to get killed for this, wasn't he?
He was going to be smashed into pieces by Hiratsuka-sensei's iron fist, right... Sure enough, visibly throbbing veins appeared on Shizuka Hiratsuka's forehead. ^_^#
"Do you want to die?"
"Well, before