Kouchisei did not understand people's fascination in chucking stale bread at ducks and geese and waterfoul, and had spent a long period of time during Kozue's period of melodrama - because it was not self-reflection - contemplating the meaning of their relationship. Melodrama did not lead you into the arms of other people, for a start. How could she be as close to him as that? The muscles in his face seemed to slacken, and then he thought about what his father had taught him about it, and folded his arms. Father was right in that sacrifices had to be made - that people could not have everything they wanted.
"What do you mean, know anything about me?"
Gay? He was more stunned than angered by that comment, and how Reizo could think of something that was so obviously obscene and wrong that he would not bother to combat it. He, at least unlike that lurking wolfish deviant, was secure in his sexuality and that it was the right way to be.