Would Sogo Doma, who had supplied arms for the Middle Eastern wars (by selling weapons), contributed to the eradication of yakuza elements (by founding the Kondo Group single-handedly and leading them into battle), made countless people realize life's impermanence and that gains and losses were all fate (by triggering a stock market crash), and left most Totsuki students gritting their teeth in hatred, ever tell anyone about those things?
Of course not. Even now, whenever those self-proclaimed upper-class elites mentioned the Doma Family's second son, they wore expressions that said he was beyond saving. If he hadn't been born into the Doma Family, the grass on his grave would probably have grown several feet high by now. Sogo Doma's principle of living a "low-key" life had contributed greatly to the reputation he bore.
Like throwing around money after partying too hard...
Fighting over women in bars...
Beating the hell out of spoiled young masters from equally prominent families by relying on his family background, then shouting, "My dad is Li—cough, Keiryu Doma! Just wait for your family to go bankrupt!"
Sogo Doma had done none of that! Even if those incidents had really happened, someone must have been impersonating him in an attempt to ruin his reputation. Their intentions were unforgivable!
Although countless pieces of evidence showed that Sogo Doma had been at the scene whenever these things happened, being at the scene didn't prove he was the culprit, right? He might simply have been an innocent bystander watching the drama unfold—that was how Sogo Doma, once lying in a hospital bed, had explained it.
Unfortunately, hardly anyone believed him...
As for whether he had really done it? Sogo Doma felt that was surely an unsolved mystery. Those idiots out there saw how stubbornly he denied everything, so they