here's my theory, either he's a boyfriend of the mom(ugly brown hair mf we hate) or he's a step-bro, or he's a loan shark- or he's just threatening our pearl boy with the restaurant cause he have the papers-??? I mean, if the mother's dead then she gives her stuff to her kids right- maybe she gave it to him?? IDK
biiih you're the first person i found after 7 pages talking about the last panels. this chapter just broke ppl's minds
anyway
i thought he was the mom's bf i didnt even think of him being a stepbro (woooh). either way it's gross :( i wonder if he actually liked the mom and maybe the way the mom died was juha's "fault" somehow so now he hates juha and makes him work to pay for the restaurant's bills or juha is actually trying to pay for the restaurant back. he's always talking about juha owning him money
BASED ON HOW I UNDERSTAND THE STORY-
So ok, we have this black hair dude who likes Hotaru, and when he found someone similar to her, he dated him. But as time pass, he started to grew feelings for the pink guy. Here comes the black hair friend, which we see him saying Good spots of the pink hair dude, which either means they're in a relationship or fuckbuddies/ friends with benefits, we'll call him fuckbuddy. So the fuckbuddy asks pink hair some shit I think and to which pink hair replied with "I don't wanna break up yet" while reading that I thought the pink hair was a two-time sussy but as I'm writing this, I think the Fuckbuddy asked him to break up with our black hair dude to which he replied that. So then yadiyada they have sex and shit. After that, Pink hair decides to read the book about this so-called Hotaru, and when the black hair dude wakes up, he looked mad/pissed and might have said "Hotaru is dead". Now go back to the very beginning, we see our black hair guy with a girl and she said "Hotaru is dead", the next frame is him talking about his girlfriend breaking up with him, meaning they've broken up. SO IDK IF THE PINK HAIR AND BLACK HAIR DID BREAK UP
So we have this other person that looks like Gio, I forgot his name so we'll call him Dio heheh. Anyways, In chapter 123 we see a picture of Gio. So what I think is that they're half brothers, but then again, how did an abusive father turn into a goofy fella?(if you forgot, Gio was forced to attend those show by his father, the reason why he gets cold easy and don't feel hot) then again, we don't know the mother, so I'm thinking the lady on the pharmacist is the mother :D
didn't the one that forced him to attend the shows was a caretaker at the orphanage? if I'm not mistaken, he's already an orphan at the time
Remember that Gio had the illness all his life.And also in the episode where 6yr Gio meets 3yr Felix, he was already in the orphanage and getting abused.It was the caretaker of the orphanage who forced him to go to the shows and the reason why he acts like the burns don't hurt.The caretaker used to think he lied about feeling pain because of his illness. The other children at the orphanage bullied him too.
Also I'm pretty sure Leegang and Gio are full brothers, Leegang being the younger one. So in conclusion Gio's dad wasn't abusive.It was the orphanage caretaker.