"You think seniors shouldn't be respected?" It was Shizuka Hiratsuka speaking. She looked rather surprised, which was understandable. She had assumed the school's problem children were limited to the Service Club, but who would have thought this Fujigami—or rather, that Oolong Tea Research Club...
"Just as I thought..." Fujigami said while she was still surprised, "Even Hiratsuka-sensei believes seniors should be respected..."
Shizuka Hiratsuka: "???"
This...
"It's not that we don't respect our seniors..." Fujigami continued before she could say anything. "It's just that even when seniors are worse than juniors, they can order juniors around simply because they're seniors. In many competitions, juniors could clearly achieve better results, but because they're juniors, they don't even qualify to compete...
Sometimes, they're even deprived of training opportunities and can only exist like janitors. Is that reasonable?"
"..." Yukino Yukinoshita was taken aback. "That happens too?"
Shizuka Hiratsuka: "..."
Of course it did! It was practically a cultural tradition. Well, she hated this seniority system too, but those were society's rules. What could she do?
"Ahem..." Naturally, Shizuka Hiratsuka could not say any of that as a teacher. She first coughed twice, then said, "Fujigami, strictly speaking, you're a senior too..." So you benefit from it too, right?
"I don't want to be any kind of senior..." Fujigami said. "Before, we didn't understand, nor did we realize that this way of thinking was wrong. After all, everyone had always lived like that. We couldn't resist; we could only obey. That was until I joined the Oolong Tea Research Club..."
Sogo Doma: "..."
Could they stop whipping... bringing that up!?
Hey, hey, Fujigami, couldn't she see that old woman Shizuka Hiratsuka had shifted her gaze toward him?
"Until we met the Kondo Group..."
Shizuka Hiratsuka: "..."
Utaha Kasumigaoka: "..."
Doma (Sogo-kun)!!!
Sogo Doma: