I"M ABOUT TO DROP A *****BOMBSHELL***** you are warned!

Honestly, he tried to kill Akihito to hurt Asami, but sexually assaulted him because Akihito was provoking him (can't tell with what words exactly, I have no time to translate this for the next couple of hours). At first he only punched him in the stomach, but Akihito kept at it until Sudou had enough.

I'm not saying it's an excuse, it's just that Akihito is the one that pushed his buttons for that one.

This is where I think we need to wait and see what she has planned for Sudou to find out if we needed to know this about him. I might also be taking it way too seriously.

I think this is Fei Long all over again. Fei Long was also going to kill Akihito to hurt Asami, but he raped Akihito because being inside of Asami's lover was the closest he could get to having sex with Asami.

It looks like Feilong all over again, but without Fei's personal charm and fascinating background story.

Aha, I don't like Fei Long, mostly because his backstory bores me to death. He was pretty pathetic as well, getting Akihito into his mess, raping him and enjoying it way too much just before kidnapping him. Then he told him to suck his dick off or he'll sell him as a prostitute. How charming.

Thank you for that spoiler info J. The fact that Takaba was able to save himself does add a plot dynamics to this. He not Asami stopped this attack on his person, he;s his own hero for a change. He stopped this demon on his own,no gun on sword. just his mind and body and maybe that was the purpose of it. Sudoh failed. He could not hurt Asami becase he could not hurt(rape) Takaba. Takaba Akihito saved both himself and Asami that day. that is what i'm going to see whem I see those pages. Go Takaba.

I'm just wondering: At what moment did Asami arrive at the warehouse? At the same time as Kuroda, I guess. He didn't manage to see what was happening there first. *o*

It does come off as a cheap (and less engaging) Feilong knockoff. That's why I don't like this new arc very much for the most part - the antagonists are so weak. I actually don't even really have much of a problem with whininess, and I do like psychotic villains, but Sudou is just kinda boring, and even if you don't like Feilong, he was at least a much stronger and more complex character. I actually think it was a pretty smart move to bring Mikhail back, because he is much more interesting and has a lot more potential than Sudou - and he was only the side villain of the Hong Kong arc. To me, that kinda shows that the characters from the current arc are just not on par with the older ones.

Someone pointed out (in a post before) that Sudou was a diet coke version of Feilong, at this point I'm agree with that definition.

I am curious to see what was said when it is translated. Sudou is smart enough to know that Asami really loves Akihito and it would hurt Asami more to assault Akihito. That is why Asami wants Akihito to show him his rear to make sure he wasn't raped.

I don't think he saw anything. From the little translation I got, Asami asks Akihito if Sudou did anything to him. Akihito tells him he didn't, but the expression on Akihito's face clearly says "HE DID SOMETHING!!" which is why Asami has a pissed off look as he demands Akihito present himself for examination.

I was hoping Sakazaki would actually be a bigger antagonist in this arc. I don't know why but I like him (⊙…⊙ ) Sudo's psychology just baffles me though.

However, I am actually really looking forward to seeing just where the heck this is all going. I mean is Fei Long coming back to help in the fight? Is Kuroda going to make another appearance? Is Suoh waiting patiently in the pilot's seat of the Helicopter? It's all too much!

Sudou isn't smart. He's an idiot. Dumb enough to think he can rip off Asami and then cry the next minute because Asami doesn't love him. And it's not like Asami was going to do anything anyway. He's all talk when it comes to people "touching" Akihito.

I like Sakazaki too, in a weird way. :)

Thanks J!

To tell you the truth, I have the weird feeling that the person sent in the hospital to kill Sudou is one of Asami's men. In the chapters of 'escape and love' I saw someone similar to that person following Aki.

hahahahah poor Sudou !!! he's gonna get killed if Asami catches him !!!

WHAAAAAAT? *jaw drop*

Thank God no penetration! I skipped that part and never had a courage to see it. Hahaha.
It seems because of amazing plot, fans are forget that this is actually ERO manga, started with rape, and Akihito also touched by other man since beginning. Haha

@lightasus, can you translate some of those extended scenes into english? At least a summary. I wanna know what sudou said to Aki and what Asami said to Aki

Nobody's forgetting anything. If fans are shocked, it's not because of the act itself but because it changes the character of Sudou and/or because this now looks a little too much like a rinse and repeat of the Feilong story.