
it’s so sad how accurate yoshiki’s lifestyle of being a closeted queer guy living in such a small homophobic village, especially when the person you loved the most is jokingly about you’re romantic feelings and calling it somewhat gross. that would be such a huge turn off for me, but for yoshiki… he desperately stays close with hikaru, even through the toughest moments in his life where he feels like he is about to lose it all. it’s even more saddening that the og hikaru used to like a girl that looks almost alike to yoshiki’s appearance. his compulsory heterosexuality drives me completely nuts.

it's so creative how the author makes a realistic viewpoint between "hikaru" and yoshiki relationship within its queer spaces.
it's like viewing a gay person as some kind of monster because their preferences are against to human morals. but they are still people. people who are confused and closeted to who they like and what they are. but society makes them as a threat because they're somewhat different, while others feel sympathetic about it.
and i think that yoshiki are some of those people.
the part where he hugs the dog was probably him trying to get the grasps of "hikaru's" bad actions and accepting this is just the way it is. and despite all of that, he still treats him as a human being that still lacks basic decency.
but i don't know, maybe i'm just overanalyzing too much... still though, it's unique how the plot leads up to internalized homophobia through the idea of a monster.

wait guys, i have theory. what if hikaru is using that little girl's soul to get back to the real world without hurting yoishiki in the process, since the real hikaru's body and yoishiki himself are already mixed through the supernatural... we still have a few volumes left till the end, so we still have a lot of things to pack up.
ahhh, i love doomed yuri... please keep feeding me more, i'm starving