I started reading lout of the count's family and fantasies of a stepmother and I figured out the entire trajectory of the plot from the first 5 chapters

understands the driver's remark about them and he's misunderstanding, thinking they're a couple, but he doesn't pay any mind to it, too busy with the world-altering discovery he has made.

happen this time if he doesn't. How will yoichi die this time? How long will he have to live afterwards? So he lets him go. And yoichi returns every time. He's sitting in a taxi with yoichi slumped against him, asleep, exhausted from a day full of sightseeing. They're in Dublin, and he vaguely

Yoichi makes friends wherever he goes, somehow and despite his hesitant personality, and he wants to kill them sometimes but doesn't, still doesn't like being around them and yoichi doesn't force him. He hangs out with people other than him, alone, and he lets him because he doesn't know what will

spending they do is travelling the world together. Together. It was something that occurred to him out of nowhere. Maybe because the threat of yoichi's loss had always overwhelmed everything else, he doesn't notice until much later that this is the longest they had been together in any lifetime

The years pass. He is vaguely aware of how different the world is around him. The place yoichi builds with him, the home he puts together, is much brighter than anything he has made. They live in a normal house, because yoichi is normal and humble like that, but he's also adventurous, and the most

Yoichi's voice, a fragile and unassuming thing just like the rest of him, echoes much louder than that of the beast, drowning it out just before it takes hold of him, of them both again. And then he is a calm ocean once more, still hiding horrors in his depths but no longer so menacing.

In the past, before this hell he lives in now, that voice was the loudest thing, probably because it was the most inherent part of him. His own voice, his own will, louder and more potent than anything else. But now the monster's voice falters in the face of yoichi's careful coaxing.

His hands never stray near him, even if the temptation is there. Even though, deep down, beneath the layers of grief and paranoia and anxiety, the monster is still there. The monster is still him, and it tells him a cage is best suited for yoichi after all.

More importantly, he never harms yoichi even when they come. He quacks and breaks things and almost takes one or two lives at some point, but he has never once laid a hand on yoichi. He's seen him die in so many ways, so many times. Can see every last detail of what his corpse would look like next