"Path to godhood?" If it hadn't been Sogo Doma saying something she couldn't understand yet found immensely shocking, with the Totsuki Elite Ten label still hanging over him and all, Rumi Tsurumi would definitely have thought something was wrong with him. After all, just hearing the words "path to godhood" was embarrassing enough...
"Yes, the path to godhood!" Sogo Doma nodded again in confirmation. This time, he wasn't lying. How did one deal with bullying at school?
It was simple—enter the great melting pot of society first. If one could gain a foothold in that great melting pot, then looking back at the bullying in school would make it seem utterly ridiculous.
And in Sogo Doma's memory, there was a girl who had done exactly that. She hadn't been bullied, though. Rather, she had mistakenly believed one of her classmates had entered a bar, so the kind-hearted girl went in to look for that wayward classmate. Incidentally, she had still been a middle schooler at the time.
At the bar, the girl's talent for bartending was revealed. Thus, under the temptation of a black-hearted proprietress, she embarked on a one-way road called godhood. First, the proprietress played the pity card and forced her into working part-time, earning several thousand yen an hour?
At that point, the girl's part-time wages had already surpassed her family's income. During her time as a bartender, she built up many connections through work. No longer content with merely being a bartender, she changed jobs and struck out on her own, her hourly earnings surpassing her family's income countless times over.
Then, the girl started a company—and bought her own house. Incidentally, when she thought her mother would be angry about her working part-time, she discovered that quite a few of the people she had connected