I feel like Noriko tried to hook up the wife with Ranzo because Noriko loved the master and wanted the master to himself :0
But yeah its so interesting, especially this recent chapter update of Ranzo encountering someone!
yet it was norihiko the one who planned the marriage ! I think he just loves watching the people slowly break and ikuro happened to be the most broken one in the f universe ahah
I think Norihiko knows that the family will eventually get suspicious if Ikuro and his wife don't have children, you know how it was in the past. So in order to protect both Ikuro and the wife from ruin the family reputation, and knowing there was no way for Ikuro to perfom his "duty" toward his wife, he came up with the only logical idea for having a legit heir in the house (and keeping it a secret, since Ranzo has no way to tell the true). Also, in the last chapter, the wife says she feeling not very well, it may be a hint about the pregnancy...
I know that I say this every single time but norihiko is the actual bomb. I really have no idea of what he's thinking. of what he's planning. if he's even planning something ! I don't understand if his acts have an actual meaning. if he does his shit just to control ikuro and make him weak or if it's norihiko the one being weak to ikuro ! I don't understand if he really wants to protect that house or just destroy it (????)
I'm so impressed by this character I just can't help to be so intrigued aaah
(like what the fuck was that panel where he basically asked ikuro's wife to get impregnated by ranzou ?? why ?? like I know that he would eventually be the real heir but it's not like she can say 'oh hello I'm actually pregnant from ranzou' just like this ?? is he actually acting just in order to make ikuro more miserable so the he would be the only one to rely and depend on?
I just don't understand .. and I love this.. ahahah