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Riki is truly unlikeable, to me. Not just as one half of a couple but as a character overall. Haruomi is great and has so much potential to be even greater and I feel like having him give in and accept to be trapped in this relationship is only dragging him down and doing him a huge disservice. I'll just be imagining him realising the mistake he's made and freeing himself. He deserves to be happy. Riki's father and his bodyguard seem like much better people in comparison and from what little we're shown and I'd be interested in reading their story if the author made them a second couple. I wouldn't say know if in an alternate universe Haruomi became their third instead, either.
I am incredibly curious as to how many of us that started reading this in 2011 (or circa) are still around. The end feels so very near now, at long last...♡
I started reading since before Yashiro got shot when he and Doumeki went to that adult theater together. Don't tell me that was in 2011!! How did time go by so fast? This story has been with me for fifteen years, exactly half of my life. It's so bittersweet to think about, but this story and these characters mean the world to me ;___;