Wait wait.... Am i mistaken about something or was it not Touma who came to aki as soon as his wife died. 'Manipulating' his mind into thingking he is his wife, pretending everything is at its place but got abit too greedy causing aki's mind to crumble down until he cant take it and commit suicide?
Well if u see he just wanted aki to live
He was saying all that to himself to make himself be the evil one it's a victim mentality to make themself be the bad one and think that they are suffering cuz they are bad
If u see it objectively it wasn't touma's fault not was he manipulating aki
Who in god's name can't distinguish the build of a man and women and their nature and voice and all
What I think touma's fault was that he tried to make his best friend and first love live only for him to die after making aki suffering all more
He should have let him die in the beginning
He had no hope from beginning so touma would have moved on at least but no aki gave him hope that one day he might like touma and keep doing all those things aki delusioned himself that touma was rikka and when touma denied this he just fucking died
In third para i miswrote the name
After making touma suffering all more***
Ughhhh why is Touma the only one that has to live in suffering?? Sure, Aki also suffers because his wife died, but did he have to also drag Touma like that?? How great of him to leave and 'be with Rikka' without saying anything, meanwhile Touma is left with years of unrequited love, 2 years of being someone else's substitute, and now the trauma and guilt thinking that his loved one died because of him. Like, how do you expect Touma to recover from that?? Even in Aki's last note, the only sign of him feeling guilty is one 'sorry' sentence. Just because you're grieving doesn't give you permission to be such a selfish hateful jerk (╬￣皿￣)凸
Aside from that, I reallllyyyy want to see the couple in vol 2 chapter 4 story when they grow up