Gan'an Shinomiya obviously understood the logic as well. Well, okay, it would have been difficult for him not to understand. After being thwarted by the Doma Family several times, it wasn't as if he had never considered using underhanded methods to strike at them behind the scenes, but...
What had the Doma Family been doing back then?
They had been waging war against those long-established violent organizations!
Gan'an Shinomiya had thought the Doma Family was insane at the time. Were those old violent organizations so easy to provoke? The Shinomiya Family might have ranked among the Four Great Zaibatsu, but even he didn't dare openly offend those violent groups. Those people might not have dared to provoke the Shinomiya Family openly, but what about in secret?
You knew the Sanzenin Family, right? They were also one of the Four Great Zaibatsu, but so what? Wasn't the Sanzenin Family's eldest daughter still at risk of being kidnapped anytime, anywhere?
Yet the Doma Family had driven that entire mess of violent organizations out of the eastern region...
Gan'an Shinomiya: "..."
Fortunately, he had never seriously considered playing dirty with the Doma Family!
That was also why, despite the Shinomiya Family under Gan'an Shinomiya's leadership having been at odds with the Doma Family for so long, they had never resorted to force against them.
The other members of the Shinomiya Family hadn't understood before, but now Oko Shinomiya and the others did. Dozens of gunmen had ambushed a single wastrel and not only been completely wiped out, but every one of them had been captured alive. Heh. Hehehe...
Not to mention, they knew the Doma Family was hardly made up of kindhearted saints—there was an old saying in the Celestial Empire: "Punishment does not extend to scholar-officials." Other countries had plenty of similar