There's no need to negotiate, because there's no way he's ever giving up that seat on his own.
I'm just waiting for him to slip up. That's when my chance will come. [ His feelings about this are more complicated than simple ambition, so he's not actually being 100% serious about what he's saying (even if that may be hard to tell with how deadpan he sounds). Though he does want the seat, Sougo would never actually kill an innocent party - not even one that he resents. A part of him sees Hijikata as a friend, too.
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I'm just waiting for him to slip up. That's when my chance will come. [ His feelings about this are more complicated than simple ambition, so he's not actually being 100% serious about what he's saying (even if that may be hard to tell with how deadpan he sounds). Though he does want the seat, Sougo would never actually kill an innocent party - not even one that he resents. A part of him sees Hijikata as a friend, too.
He likes to play the bad guy, though. ]