muse ✨'s manga / #happy ending(12)

As their relationship continues to mature, Sajou realizes he can no longer envision his future and asks for some time apart from Kusakabe, who then revokes the privilege of calling him by his first name. If you love these two, you might want to wait for this to be completed or at least get a few more chapters in, because I feel like I've been betrayed. ETA:

A young teacher trying to encourage a 17-year-old to return to school ends up effecting change after he assaults the student, which sets him on a new path. Strangely, they end up together in what seems to be a happy, comfortable relationship. The teenager was dealing with past abuse from his father. There’s a lot of fish imagery in this. As boys, they both wanted to keep fish but could not, and in the final scene we see them through their fish tank. At a glance it seems happy, but I don’t know how happy either of them is or can be with the other. I would probably need to re-read this a couple of times to take in all of the detail but I don’t know that I want to.