【僕のとりとめ】
reread it again (ch 8) and look at this.

Rihito says “I’ve always...” Not only does the speech bubble cross into the panel of the hand looming above us—signalling that it was already going to stop rihito from continuing and wouldn’t wait for him
to finish the sentence (ellipses equals hesitation)—when rihito is trying to tell his father this, all we see of his father is close ups. 2 before the slap: the lower part of his face and his hand. going to attach a meaning and say that it expresses how narrow minded
rihito’s father is.

nakamura chose to have a close up of his face yet excludes his eyes. therefore, he does not want to see and to prevent himself from seeing, he resorts to employing his hand to push away the only person that can enable his sight.
no surprise when what ends the scene is rihito’s father spouting a rhetoric which rihito, before the slap, was about to dispel (liking men is a constant, there is no altering your affinity to them) that naturally progresses to an opposite. opposite of the scene in chapter
6 when kusakabe & rihito’s mother meet.

everything of this part of the scene in chapter 8 is a complete reversal except this one similarity —both parents have realised that kusakabe is the catalyst for rihito.

for rihito’s mother understands kusakabe is the most important
person for rihito (expression of emotions, able to trust others etc etc.) and when she tells that to kusakabe, she is met with silence. then kusakabe breaks down. they talk to each other afterwards.

the admittance by rihito’s father in contrast is ordered differently and there
is no communication after. kusakabe is not surprised with rihito’s father accusing him of being the person that created a corrupted son; has expected, he knows the proceedings. readers are confronted with his face followed by the father’s twisted visage.

i suppose it would be
lackadaisical to say there is no communication between the two and leave it at that, instead, there is no attempt at communication by kusakabe himself.

rihito is the black knight and it feels as if he’s drunk at last when he blurts out
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