"..." An ordinary person would probably have been left speechless by Shizuka Hiratsuka long ago. After all, he had been slapped in the face by his own words. But what storms had Sogo Doma not weathered? So what if his own words had come back to bite him? No, rather, as long as he could weasel—ptui, as long as he could explain it away, then it did not count as being slapped in the face.
"Shizuka Hiratsuka, what I meant was that, as a gorilla, Kondo Isao is already quite human-like. We can't exactly judge a gorilla by human moral standards, can we?"
Shizuka Hiratsuka: "..."
She had long known that this bastard Doma's bottom line was remarkably flexible, but facing his blatant lies firsthand still made her want to complain—who was the one who had just said that someone ate from the bowl, then cursed the person who gave it to them after putting it down? He could not possibly have been talking about himself, could he? After all, he had been a student at Kondo Dojo...
"That aside..." Unfortunately, before she could voice her complaint, Sogo Doma spoke again. "Weren't we discussing you and Taihei? How did the topic turn to gorillas? What's there to talk about when it comes to gorillas?"
Shizuka Hiratsuka: "???"
Gorillas really were not worth talking about, but had the two of them just been discussing Taihei? Besides—
"Who do you think derailed the conversation in the first place?"
"Tch..." See? As long as he changed the subject quickly enough, getting slapped in the face would never happen to him. After letting out a smug chuckle, Sogo Doma said, "Shizuka Hiratsuka, you're not about to say I was the one who derailed the conversation, are you?"
The moment he finished speaking, Shizuka Hiratsuka