In fact, "bullying the weak and fearing the strong" wasn't enough to describe this country...
The Shinomiya Family was powerful, right? The Shinomiya Family was tough enough, right? Yet Kaguya Shinomiya, with the Shinomiya Family behind her, still got slapped across the face. Could you say they feared the strong?
But if you said they weren't afraid, then the moment Sogo Doma stepped into Shuchiin Academy, the students had trembled in terror. What was that supposed to mean?
Was the Doma Family stronger than the Shinomiya Family? While that was indeed true, to the uninformed public, the Doma Family—the fifth of the four great conglomerates—still lagged quite far behind the other four.
Yet they feared Sogo Doma, while not fearing Kaguya Shinomiya, who had one of the four great conglomerates backing her. If it was "bullying the weak and fearing the strong," shouldn't they have been more afraid of Kaguya Shinomiya?
But that wasn't the case...
People feared Sogo Doma, but they didn't fear Kaguya Shinomiya!
Why was that?
The answer was simple. If you provoked Kaguya Shinomiya, she wouldn't lay a hand on you. But if you provoked Sogo Doma, he really would!
In people's eyes, even if the Shinomiya Family was one of the four great conglomerates, Kaguya Shinomiya, who wouldn't fight, was ultimately just another student. As for Sogo Doma? He was a ruthless guy who dared to throw hands. Though the Doma Family seemed somewhat behind the four great conglomerates, it was still far beyond what their families could withstand.
If they provoked Kaguya Shinomiya, perhaps their families would give them a beating—though even that wasn't certain. After all, Kaguya Shinomiya might not even tell anyone what happened, so provoking her was no big deal. But if they provoked Sogo Doma... he'd beaten up even Chiba's