but if you actually pay attention to the older bro, he treats yuzu fairly normally but his expression only got dark and sinister when the mom walks in in chap 1. I realized that the author was trying to convey to us that the person Older bro hates/resents is their mother who deprived yuzu of a normal life. The bro is bed-ridden and he can't that help his life is limited/empty, but yuzu has been raised just to be free in home nursing aide. (also it's sad that the brother thinks that if he died Yuzuru wouldn't have to live like this.) So that's why the bro decided if yuzu can't/won't change himself, he going to force his hand. I mean look, yuzu spent at least a decade doing everything he was told and shows not a hint of trying to do differently.
So the brother devises a plan where he meets Kotarou, gets updates on Yuzuru's school and social life and plans for ways to get Yuzuru to be himself. The brother most likely already recognized koutarou as the little kid who played in their yard.
Also in chapter 2, the brother off-handedly mentions him being late but then says he has never asked for yuzuru to come home early. it's the mom who pressures Yuzu to do so (but Yuzu the ever brainwashed boy denies its the mother's doing probably because she never outright says so.) but then he purposely says something to try and illicit a response from Yuzuru (it fails)
The brother lashes out at him to try and get Yuzuru to abandon him but at the last moment retracts it because even if he wants yuzuru to be free, he doesn't want Yuzuru to hate him.
I feel for both their well-beings the brother needed them to stop depending on each other. Once yuzuru was no longer his only source of human interaction he made friends. I like how this wasn't the typical sick person being like "live for my sake only." The brother was like fairly fine on his own.
from what we have seen of sakae, when he "possesses" hanae, he always looks like a student (uniform and golden hair); as an adult it looks like he dyed his black. Maybe as a kid he suffered for being able to see demons, but unlike abeno (who was abused by people and demons alike too, but was saved by demons first which is why he likes them better). Sakae might have had a grudge against demons as a student and so when he learned to use his influence, he just erased demons away.
Aoi seems to always be there to help these humans who have issues with demons, so she probably helped sakae learn that not all demons are bad. In the pic of them from the house, sakae is an adult and aoi is sitting on his shoulder and they seem close.
TL;DR young sakae is possessing hanae and is the one who hated demons. Older sakae mellowed out.
Man, when I first heard Yokoya's habit and then saw Hondou's "mean" stare, i was scared he was going to be the stereotypical mean co-worker who still somehow charms his way into Yokoya's heart.
Then like 2 panels later, author proves me wrong and makes Hondou the sweetest man alive. author's note is right he is THE good man. He was polite, not rude, considerate, thoughtful, and genuinely in love with yokoya (both sides). They are like a match-made couple!
...i didn't think anything happened, but now that I look closely, the washing machine is running, but jihan's shirt and pants and Doyun's jeans are already drying on the rack.
What were you washing Doyun, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
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