#kasuga says afterwards that he feels a bit blasted by the lecture

[fabiansociety]

wandering around ijincho, we meet the spiritual descendant of yakuza 0's Horny Men: mr. masochist. in keeping with like a dragon's more depressed tone, he's a horndog who has lost his jouissance, no longer able to feel the pain he craves despite ever more baroque attempts to recapture it

so

we track down his mother, who is managing a convenience store, and who honestly seems like a sweet lady, and bring her out to the park where he slumps in a weary fighter's despair, and, man, she reads him the riot act. rattles off the many ways he is failing himself, failing her, failing the very world. it's a magnificent speech.

his response?

"I did say I was looking for pain, I admit that. But getting my mom to read her list of grievances? That's just cruel, man."