I can see it, too. I'm so angry with Asoda that I wished he'd be shot in the head. I hate him now. I don't give a damn about his loyalty and jealousy. He fucked over a guy he called a friend, a guy who believed him, and a guy Akitora likes/loves....and that makes him (in a group of a lot of thugs and shits) a double-shit.
Oh dang I totally thought they weren’t together because Akitora is dead, well damn knowing he’s alive just makes this shit even more depressing ┑(￣Д ￣)┍ I doubt this is it, Akitora already knows there’s a chance of him losing on the market and he didn’t seem to care. I’m thinking Asoda and Rogi are going to start having major issues, along with the other stuff that’s happening with the yakuza hierarchies and Rogi will somehow end up being a liability, Akitora is likely going to have to choose between his relationship with Rogi and keeping his wife/child safe. What a mess I say.
Yes, Akitora, as I see it, will be in a position where he'll have to give up Rogi to keep the yakuza headship together. And for all I know, his wife's death may play a part. I don't knowo when she died, but if Rogi had any sort of connectiono to that, that would be a huge thing.
In the current timelines, from what I remember (it's been a while since I read the stuff with the son), Akitora did die. But Rogi had been alienated from him before his death, and I assumed his raping and torturing the son was revenge against Akitora whom he loved but who pushed him away or betrayed him in some way.
It's a fascinating mess of human emotions.
Up until minori no te, which is about 20 years after this, Tora is alive though
And the wife died when the kiddo was 7
I wonder if this incident ends up being what breaks them apart and makes Rogi so so so god damn bitter, bitter enough to blackmail and abuse Tora’s son in the future...
I just don’t see Tora siding with Rogi even despite the recording, and I don’t see Rogi forgiving Tora for choosing Asoda (and his own yakuza family) over him