#Kuramochi triangulates his relationship to post-summer Ryou by measuring it against what he’s got with haruichi.

[daisyachain]

The Kominato Kyoudai are just the one oasis of ‘wow fucked up’ in the blissfully flat, pat world of Daiya. Kuramochi, chasing Ryousuke because he’s still desperate for some kind of belonging and Ryousuke has a very clear rubric for his to get in his good graces. Haruichi chasing Kuramochi not because he wants to be friends, rather, because getting close to him is getting close to Ryou by proxy. Kuramochi befriending Haruichi but deliberately keeping him at a distance because that way he can enforce the special-ness of his relationship with Ryou (not by making it any closer, but by stopping another one from getting as close). Ryou ignoring Haruichi in person while ignoring Kuramochi by text, being closer to Haruichi and friendlier with Kuramochi, watching over Haruichi but trusting Kuramochi. Ryou just plays his two underlings against each other and doesn’t even feel satisfied with the results.