I mean... he's an adult and she's a child. "Looking away" from the romantic advances of a minor under your care is the responsible thing to do, not "wretched." 🤷‍♂️

psychopomp085 said:

I mean... he's an adult and she's a child. "Looking away" from the romantic advances of a minor under your care is the responsible thing to do, not "wretched." 🤷‍♂️

1. The age difference is being exaggerated in this two-part comic.

2. He strung her along for years without conclusively rejecting her, which naturally gave her a false hope that she could win him over. If he had shut her down from the beginning, he would've spared her a lot of suffering.

MarqFJA87 said:

1. The age difference is being exaggerated in this two-part comic.

2. He strung her along for years without conclusively rejecting her, which naturally gave her a false hope that she could win him over. If he had shut her down from the beginning, he would've spared her a lot of suffering.

1.) It's exaggerated, but she's still a child even when there is no exaggeration at play.

2.) I completely disagee. One could argue that he could've been more firm in rebuffing her advances, but at no point in the sparse few interactions between the two that we're shown as the audience did he indicate to her that she might have a chance. That she might be able to win his heart "someday" was a delusion, but it was a delusion entirely of Asuka's own creation, nothing more.