This is just me, but after reading this again…Arima has these dumbass moments. Kitaoji shouldn’t have to deal with his partner lying all the time about small things, like I understand his insecurities bc kitaoji was originally straight, but to keep pushing this narrative on him that he would leave quickly for a women is so shitty. Kitaoji literally dealt with his shit twice already and probably is gonna have to deal with it more. It’s like Kitaoji said, he starts things and then ends it on his time and doesn’t think about how Kitaoji would feel. If my partner did that I think I would leave because I wouldn’t deal with someone looking at me in a distrustful way just because of their insecurities. It was like the author had to write a “dumb bitch moment” in order to carry on the story.