Was the Doma Family scary? The answer was an unequivocal yes!
It was only because Sogo Doma acted like a carefree, lazy slob all day that Umaru and the others thought the Doma Family was nothing special. In reality, among the upper echelons, the Doma Family was enough to stop a child from crying!
Azami Nakiri had lived overseas for years and knew the Doma Family only through hearsay. And hearsay was inevitably prone to distortion, so he had his doubts about the family's fearsome reputation.
His behavior, however, made Sogo Doma realize that the people overseas had probably started asking for another beating. People were forgetful by nature, and they never learned their lesson. You had to hurt them badly enough to leave them bedridden for a few years before they'd settle down for a while. Otherwise...
"Exactly..." If he wanted the other side to feel pain and fear, Sogo Doma needed a good target. Takeuchi Seiga was perfect for the job. So rather than killing a chicken to scare the monkeys, he might as well use this monkey, Azami Nakiri, to scare the rest of them into line and remind everyone overseas that the Doma Family was still the Doma Family!
"Takeuchi really ought to blame Mr. Nakamura. You were such a lucky guy..." To that end, Sogo Doma smiled as he explained, "You managed to walk away unscathed after provoking me. I'd almost forgotten you existed. If you hadn't come here with Mr. Nakamura..."
Why was Takeuchi Seiga such a good target? After all, Sogo Doma couldn't just use someone as a target for no reason. Sure, he could, but then everyone else would live in fear—and even a cornered rabbit would bite.
Sogo Doma wasn't worried about a rabbit biting him, but what if it bit