So many scalding experiences... Sogo Doma thought it over carefully. It had to be because his character was too great, making others jealous and unable to tolerate him. Luckily, he never sweated the small stuff and knew when to bend and when to stand tall... Ahem. Anyway, the reason he had so many unbearably hot-potato experiences definitely wasn't his fault!
Having successfully convinced himself and shifted the blame elsewhere, Sogo Doma began drawing on his vast experience to consider how to resolve the troublesome situation before him...
What should you do when others didn't want to pay attention to you for some reason? Rush to apologize? Or agree to a pile of unfair terms that harmed yourself for others' benefit? To put it simply, blame yourself and actively correct your mistakes—this was absolutely the wrong thing to do!
If even you believed that you were wrong, then others would definitely seize on it. Once you agreed to the first unequal treaty, you would agree to countless unequal treaties afterward! So, the correct approach was this: when others didn't want to deal with you for some reason, quickly divert the attention of the people involved. For example:
After scanning the layout of the street at superhuman speed, Sogo Doma suddenly said:
"Umaru, look over there to the left!"
Once you found something that could draw people's attention, you had to speak up suddenly and catch them off guard. It was much like shouting, "Look, a UFO!" The two had much the same effect!
"What!?" Umaru and the other two reacted exactly as expected. Even if they didn't want to pay attention to Sogo, they couldn't avoid instinctive reactions. After all, curiosity was one of humanity's basic emotions.
"That old-looking arcade has such a sense of history..."
Before Mashiro Shiina or Ako