
Hii!! Souichi, the long haired guy is not an agressive character, his "homophobia" was originally an excuse to break his young brother's relationship because he extremely protective of his family, even more because of the death of their mother; not to mention, but on the start of this story that is not shown in this mang, but in Challengers by the same author, Souichi's university teacher tries to assault him and Morinaga is able to help him defend himself, both turn out ok but Souichi acquires a rather complicated trauma against gay people.
The initial story was written even before 2000, so characters that are uneducated about LGBT were a lot more common; Souichi, also, does accept and respect Morinaga, they already have a weird relationship before, it is messy, and this manga is about how they untangle this (▰˘◡˘▰)
I wanna read this but the homophobic part really got me saying anything about being against gay 100% got me not reading it the ick I got was absolutely huge and then the second chapter bro wait I'm pretty sure it was sa so I was like oh hell naw no. .