[flowerzan]

I really don't like the tsukasa and makino pairing. I prefer rui and makino. It's disturbing that makino ended up with the guy who constantly abuses her, although he kept saying he loves her. For one thing, in the beginning of school year, tsukasa tasked his school mignons to sexually abuse makino but she was saved by rui. There was also another scene where makino was being dragged in a car and tsukasa refused to save her (he only came for her after she was extremely hurt and embarassed by her classmates) because of jealousy (come on, who would do that, if you loved a person even if you were extremely jealous you won't let them die). Also, it seems tsukasa only goes after makino when he becomes jealous like that time when he was in new york. He easily gave up his love for makino, he only chased her after learning that she was with rui.

In the first few chapters, I disliked Rui because I felt he was using Makino to forget about the girl he loved. However, I felt that Rui's feelings were genuine when they started to develop. He never admitted his feelings for Makino until after he was certain that he was really in-love with her. In some way, Rui could be blamed for the circumstances that have developed in the ending but I feel sorry for him because love, in reality, is just like that, it takes time to fully understand if you love a person or not and the development of his love for Makino took far too long, allowing Tsukasa time to snatch her away. The one memorable scene that shows how much Rui loves Makino was the scene at the stairs. Makino was stating how much she used to love Rui but now she has moved on, while she was doing that, Rui was crying (Rui was not facing Makino so she would not know that he was crying).