Minis

I like a lot of Natsume Isaku's works, but this one is my favorite among hers. :)

I'm going to refer to the black-haired Mitsuo as Micchan and blonde-haired Mitsuo as Mitsuo-kun. Since their names are the same, it's a bit difficult to distinguish them otherwise.

At first, I couldn't fully understand Mitsuo-kun's reason for hiding the truth from Micchan. Sure, the manga offered us two explanations:

(a) Mitsuo-kun's claim that he did it in order to get a upper hand, and
(b) Micchan's claim that Mitsuo-kun did it to hurt him.

But both of these explanations left me unsatisfied. Even now, I'm not sure if this is the correct answer, but this is my theory:

We learn that in middle school, Mitsuo-kun was immediately drawn to Micchan. For this, when Micchan stole his girlfriend, he did not feel anger or pain. Instead, he felt... perhaps, liberated. He was free to give up a facade belying disinterest, and instead fully "commit" to Micchan. In other words, after Micchan stole his girlfriend, Mitsuo-kun grew even more curious, and fell for Micchan.

In the beginning, we also learn that Micchan bullied Mitsuo-kun, and isolated him from others by demanding that he become his dog-- his faithful dog, and nothing more. Mitsuo-kun seemed to accept this rather easily (granted, he was threatened), so I don't think it's a huge stretch to say that Mitsuo-kun didn't really have people close to him. Hence, I believe that his girlfriend, whom he knew since middle school, was perhaps (outside of potential family members) the closest person to him.

What am I getting with this? Left with no one else, and intoxicated by Micchan's eyes, Mitsuo-kun became completely dependent on Micchan. But he realized that the vice versa didn't hold true.

But perhaps he didn't mind that the converse didn't hold. He just needed to loyally serve Micchan, and that was enough for him. It was enough if Micchan kept him at his side, and fed him orders every now and then.

But I'd like to think that "contentment" changed the moment Micchan "murdered" his girlfriend. Through the course of hiding the girlfriend, Micchan made two concessions:

(a) The first person he had rang was Mitsuo-kun. This wasn't necessarily an act of trust, but it told Mitsuo-kun that Micchan also, to some degree, depended on him.

(b) In a fit of anger and guilt, Micchan exclaimed that he had loved his girlfriend, and didn't want her dead. Her death was not something minor, as Micchan had pretended earlier (i.e. "I beat her up, and hey, she happened to be dead. What a surprise."), but something very important. A consequence of love and jealousy that he couldn't express properly-- a consequence of deep emotions.

Due to (a), Mitsuo-kun realized that he appreciated Micchan's dependency as well, and became hopeful. But upon hearing (b), he became infuriated to learn that instead of him, Micchan was stuck on someone else. Unlike him, who only had him, Micchan was fussing about his girlfriend. In short, Mitsuo-kun was jealous, which is why he forced the blowjob on Micchan. It was literally a cry of, "Look at me and pay attention to me too! Look at you, you can't even move or push me off-- see how desperately you need me (and not her)?"

But Micchan /did/, unlike what Mitsuo-kun said, brush him off. He ran out of the car, and turned himself in.

And Mitsuo-kun realized Micchan didn't depend on him like he did. And through this fight, he realized he wanted Micchan to depend on him as well. Be in this-- be sucked into this-- be /thoroughly obsessed/ with this as he was.

So he replicated what happened to him for him to get obsessed. He stole Micchan's girl, who he perceived as the person most important to Micchan at the moment, and left him alone. Furthermore, he exploited Micchan's guilt to get him to cling to him even harder. He figured that with the girl no longer present to occupy Micchan's mind, and him right there, Micchan would also fall into the spiral of dependency.

Long story short, Mitsuo-kun believed that by drawing a parallel, he could foster a relationship of co-dependency with Micchan.

And well, he succeeded, didn't he?