Wait, I just reread your initial comment so yes, you are up to date.
I think you’re confused, these last chapters Sasya hasn’t doubted Karel yet (and I say yet because this chapter left us with the cliffhanger of Sasya discovering that Karel got engaged), it’s actually the other way around. Karel just cannot believe that Sasya truly loves him with no strings attached. But Sasya genuinely does, that’s why he’s been enduring all the pain and humiliation Karel put him through after becoming “Skar”.
Karel’s love is not unrequited. Unrequited means that it is not corresponded or returned, and Sasya loves Karel back. He does now as he did before they were separated. And Sasya did in fact wait for Karel, for years at that. In fact, in these latest chapters he even talks about how he would often imagine Karel coming home from the war with a bouquet in his hands. He only left because he was severely mentally ill and deluded himself into believing that Karel had “killed” the attacker so that he could finally leave Sasya, aka “abandoned” him. He also wrote Karel a letter (or letters) before leaving the house but it was intercepted because they believed him to be a spy.
Now, you still haven’t explained what exactly Sasya is at fault for.
This is such a masterpiece. It's like "Painter behind the Curtain" and "Into the Rose Garden".
I really do hope the misunderstanding will be cleared up from the past to present. Why can't Karel be direct abt what he's asking ugh...
He's happy that sasya will retire bc he'll lock him up I'm sure
But yes, it's Sasya's fault. They made a promise but why did he doubt Karel's love. That's so sad...