"Thud..."
It was precisely because he knew so little about Rumi Tsurumi, and even Katsura Kotaro's group, that something Hachiman Hikigaya would have considered impossible happened. Tobe Kakeru, a high schooler, failed to last even a second against elementary schooler Rumi Tsurumi before she threw him over her shoulder so hard that he began questioning his life.
Still, it was only natural. Did they even understand the weight behind Iron Fist Shizuka Hiratsuka's name? Surely no one genuinely believed that everyone she knocked down had merely been too embarrassed to fight back because she was a woman, right? Heh. This country had a tradition of male superiority, after all. Even in this day and age, there were still plenty of...
No, it should be said that most people believed women ought to stay home, support their husbands, and raise their children. The question was, what right did women—who could only depend on men—have to beat up the head of the household?
Not to mention that some women here had gone completely mad over fighting for women's rights, which had led to conflict between men and women. Put simply, whenever a man and a woman got into an argument, the man would challenge her to a duel...
After all, getting detained for fighting was less than seven days, while being accused of that kind of s... harassment came with at least half a year.
In that sort of environment, would anyone willingly take Iron Fist Shizuka Hiratsuka's punches? If they just took the beating, they might even end up saddled with some kind of s... charge. But if they fought back, it was merely mutual fighting—pay a little fine, and it would be over.
Unfortunately, even when they fought back, no one could withstand a single punch from Shizuka Hiratsuka!
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