On Sakuma…

On Sakuma kissing that girl…

I honestly don’t blame him in that situation. He was aware he was in a serious relationship with Takimoto and has thus expressed himself even when scared out of his wits in that kind of situation. He also genuinely didn’t understand the importance of not kissing people other than Takimoto, probably because he had had no serious relationships before Takimoto due to his childhood trauma and thus has no knowledge of the so-called boundaries that he himself had to set up.
At that time, he was just willing to do anything to be released from the dark and if he had to kiss her as the only way out, he would do it, anyway a kiss to him was just nothing but a touching of lips much like how a handshake is merely a touching of hands. It’s just like how someone would just give away all their material valuables under the fear of a gun or a knife. Money is meaningless when compared to personal safety. For Sakuma, that meaningless kiss was nothing compared to his crippling fear of the dark.
When Takimoto asked him if he would be alright with Takimoto kissing others, even when he didn’t understand, he felt he didn’t want to agree to such a thing. It’s not like he was saying in specific terms that it was alright for him to kiss others but not for Takimoto to do the same. He himself was confused at first that that was the conclusion of their talk before he understood things from Takimoto’s perspective, so then he seriously asked for forgiveness and promised not to do it again even if “it couldn’t be helped” and there was no way out.

Conclusion: He was cornered, scared out of his wits, and felt there was no other way out but to give a meaningless kiss away.
Judgment: Excused. I also genuinely feel this was Takimotos’s judgment too. He was understandably very angry as he should be, but he obviously understood Sakuma’s thoughts and explained the situation to him in a way that Sakuma would understood his own perspective and understand what was ok and not ok as a person in a serious relationship with another.

This is just my own take, though. Or am I just taken by how pitiful and adorable Sakuma is at the same time? Hahaha