the fact you would send me kazuru is high treason
you know i was expecting a lot from battle royale but chapter 11 absolutely ruined my entire life and then some. mitsuru was genuinely in love with that boy, he sincerely and truly adored kazuo with everything in his heart. it’s so real. the fact he looks up at him and the first thing he thinks is that kazuo is gorgeous, like it made that much of an impression on him. he’s on the floor getting his fingers broken one by one after getting his ass kicked, he needs to go to the hospital, but cute boy, right, so what’s physical pain. kazuo is even the one who tells him he should go to the hospital because he clearly needs medical attention.
the entire interplay described between them is so wild. mitsuru literally upended his way of living for this boy? he made kazuo the leader of his gang, he taught him a new hairstyle that would make him look “so bad” lol he showed him around town which is really cute. like he even acknowledges it’s not a whole lot to be offering up but he showed kazuo everything he could think of anyway. he really genuinely wanted to impress him. and even then, even though he loved being around him and loved fighting with him, he still wonders if maybe he’s a bad influence on this rich boy who could be going places. he wonders and he worries and he even asks kazuo about it which is really cute.
the parallel of royalty is also like, wow. awe-inspiring truly. he sees kazuo as his king and he wants to serve him. that’s some heavy imagery right here. and it’s like really cute he gets these ideals from comic books because like, you know how those are written. you know what i mean. and he just, he really enjoys being around kazuo, he keeps talking about how smart he is, how talented he is at everything, how amazed he is that kazuo is so great at everything. he looks at him in a way that’s so romantic and beautiful that it’s like... wow.
and i mean, he trusted kazuo explicitly. he never once questioned if maybe he shouldn’t meet kazuo on the island. he just trusted kazuo to do what was right, or what was right by them at any rate. he thought kazuo would be enough to stop the entire game. it was something he gambled his life on.
in the end, you know, it’s as sensei himself says.
mitsuru was crazy about kazuo.