Literally what I was thinking !! Just take them off and pick them up later
I thought that implies he couldn’t move on from the past
Same, it's like he wants to move forward (with naoki) but he's stuck until he washes off the blood (moves on from his mentor)
Man I’m stupid
Ngl he could've just took off the gloves to do that though but if he feels like he's sort of cleansing himself then yeah makes sense but if he's just washing off his gloves there's still that feeling so I feel like if he wants to move on the better metaphor would be to remove his gloves because I mean what tattooist is reusing their gloves that's not hygienic anyways that makes sense but yeah this would be a better metaphor
Hey I just realised that his mentor warned him about not removing his gloves that's cool
Just take off the gloves, you weirdo.