I feel like some of y’all didn’t fucking read chapter 9.1 and it shows
Sumi’s mindset because of shit communication between them both.
He didn’t know Utou’s feelings (and Utou’s confession came only because Sumi confessed first).
Why didn’t he wait for Utou? He got his heat.
Which is unpredictable and hurts him.
So why’d he ask Shiratori to be his pair? Well it’s a guy he trusted and not some random alpha who might’ve gotten him when he randomly got his heat next time. It’s also so the pain would stop.
But more importantly he doesn’t want to be a nuisance and a disappointment to the guy he loves.
It’s all there. Do you have to like Sumi? No. Do you have to agree with Sumi and think he didn’t make a mistake? No.
On the other hand, don’t act like Utou’s a pure bean with A+ communication skills and no complexes. Now he’s suffering because he won’t let go but because now he’ll actually do something about getting with the person he likes he’ll prevail at the end.
Now onto some miscellaneous comments I’ve seen:
“Sumi isn’t respectable because he slept with Shiratori” Fuck off. He can fuck whoever he wants however many times he wants and that has nothing to with being “respectable”. Is Utou also not respectable because he fucked Karasuma? Is Karasuma not respectable because he fucked everybody? Also, Sumi and Utou were not in a relationship and at that point Sumi thought it was just a one sided thing on his part so there’s no betrayal because there’s no commitment.
“Sumi is rubbing his mark and relationship in Utou’s face.” If it’s about why he went to show him he was bonded immediately, it goes back to thinking he’s being a bother.
If it’s about “showing of” his relationship with Shiratori? A) Utou was the one who followed him on his date.
B) If Sumi saying that he’ll go alone to get Shiratori to avoid all three of them being alone together, trying to keep it down when Shiratori was manhandling him so Utou wouldn’t hear it on the phone and actively pushing Shiratori away when he did that in front of Utou is showing off/rubbing it in, I would like to have whatever it is you’re taking.
“Why doesn’t Sumi just stay with Shiratori?” Yeah, why doesn’t he? He seems super happy about their arrangement.
“Why did he get in the car with Shiratori? Just tell him no!” A) I don’t fucking know why he got in. We’ll find out next chapter. But B) here’s what he thinks about his current status.
Utou has his heart but Shiratori owns his body. Big yikes here.
If there’s another sex scene, the reason will probably be this last point. And it will probably be as miserable as the first one.
And no one (including myself and all the readers sans the Shiratori/Sumi shippers) will like it.
What other comments like the ones up there did I miss? ‘Cuz I stopped reading comments on other pages (except the ones on my Tumblr posts, I read those)
