The Doma Family, terrifying as...
Well, the terrifying one was not actually the Doma Family, but Sogo Doma. If Gan'an Shinomiya had used that whole routine of retreating to advance and humbly begging forgiveness on Keiryu Doma rather than Sogo Doma, it might actually have worked. Unfortunately...
Gan'an Shinomiya had only assumed Keiryu Doma was the same sort of person as himself, someone who would not be easily deceived by rhetoric. So, between Keiryu Doma and Sogo Doma, he had directly chosen the more troublesome Sogo Doma.
Thus...
Under Sogo Doma's utterly indifferent attitude and his infuriatingly teasing remarks, even Gan'an Shinomiya, whose heart had not stirred for many years, could not help but choke up. "..."
Was he just fundamentally incompatible with this brat from the Doma Family!?
Damn it. If the Shinomiya Family did not currently need something from them, if the Shinomiya Family were still at its peak, he... Well, he still could not afford to provoke the spendthrift before him. What was that saying again? Ignorance knew no fear; the more you understood, the more you knew to be afraid!
Before coming into contact with the Doma Family, he too had thought they were nothing special, merely propped up by Keiryu Doma alone. The Doma Family might look glorious now, but once something happened to Keiryu Doma, the seemingly flourishing family would probably collapse even faster than the Shinomiya Family...
However, after dealing with the Doma Family, he realized he had been wrong. While it was true that the Doma Family was supported by Keiryu Doma alone, the trump cards he had left behind for them were simply too numerous. Setting everything else aside, the Kondo Group alone made Gan'an Shinomiya deeply wary—
Though times had changed and planes and cannons ruled everything, overwhelming individual strength