[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

"our" pity hmm... a good number of people outright hated Kusaka for everything he has done (and if people enjoyed him, it's enjoying him all due to his vile actions, not due to pity), not to mention as you said here, others at Faiz has trauma too, but others aren't as depraved as him. The thing with Kusaka is, as you said, he's scheming and as I said, he's standard manipulative asshat seen in majority of soap operas existing in my place (Faiz is called KR Soap Opera!). It could be that Kusaka's just trying to make himself look sympathetic again, this time in front of Takumi unlike every other time. He can easily play with words in his own twisted sense of mind that he only sees Mari as something with value in this world.

Which, you know, fair enough if Kusaka feels irredeemable. He's been resolutely awful, and I can't blame anyone who couldn't care less for a redemptive angle on his motivation.

For me, I take him at his word when he's losing it after Mari leaves. He's got a Manipulative tone that this definitely wasn't. I don't think Kusaka's that good of an actor!

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Why this one time of her to Kusaka is a mature way of closing that door, compared to others?

There's a finality to what she's telling him, backed with a steadfastness. In other circumstances (Kaido), she'd bolt from an embarrassing romantic scene. Here, she's honest and direct, telling him that it's not going to happen. It feels different than how this show usually treats romantic plots.