Doma Residence.
"Wait a sec!" Knowing full well what Sogo Doma was like, Shizuka Hiratsuka instinctively said, "When you say old age, you don't mean after thirty-five, do you?"
"Of course not. Didn't I just say it? Thirty-five counts as middle age. Old age has to be at least sixty-five..."
Hearing that, Shizuka Hiratsuka couldn't help rolling her eyes again. "That's still a long way off!"
Not just the hot-blooded female teacher—even Kasumigaoka and Umaru Doma wanted to roll their eyes. Then again, it was only natural. Though Shizuka Hiratsuka was nearly thirty, sixty-five was still...
"Not that far off..." Sogo Doma said. "Once people pass thirty, they start feeling like time flies by. It's like class—if you're not careful, class will catch up to you..."
Before he could finish, Shizuka Hiratsuka and the others all wore baffled expressions. "???"
"Who's this Class?"
"Class is class..." Sogo Doma said. "It's always there. At first, it feels like it's coming along at a leisurely pace, but later you realize it's actually sprinting. So don't think sixty-five is still far away. In fact..."
"Wait a sec!" Shizuka Hiratsuka and the others still didn't understand, but Umaru Doma was used to it. After all, her Onii-chan occasionally said strange things even she couldn't understand, like, "JUSTWE is JUSTWE. It is neither ordinary nor great, just like every ordinary office worker..."
At first, Umaru Doma had thought JUSTWE was some kind of metaphor. Only later did she learn that it was simply the name Onii-chan had given to a toy whose purpose no one knew.
So what class was didn't matter at all. What mattered was:
"Didn't Onii-chan just say that cultivation could slow aging? If it can slow aging, then old age should be delayed indefinitely, right?"
Shizuka Hiratsuka: (⊙?⊙)
Right, right. She