By the way, since the pages are not flipped, Kase placed the rings on their right hands - which seems to follow the custom of using the right hand to mark LGBT relationships. Usual placement would have been the ring finger of left hand - including in Japan.
Well, it makes sense to study the medium you are practicing. This one from the point of view of a writer who has heard all too often that beginning writers don't want to _read_.
Hm. I wonder if this refers only to Shunkai-san or maybe the Shingon sect ? Shingon sect is very esoteric with complex rituals (and history of self-mummification) so Shunkai's apparent materialistic worldview based on wealth could in direct contrast to that...
Comment below that Asian earwax is different is right. Also, ear cleaning is kind of sign of affection in Japan - wife cleaning husband's ears and so on. There are even parlors where men can go to have their ears cleaned by lovely ladies - with the same kind of posture as the two have in this...
Yeah, the original file has extra duplicates of some pages _in the end_ - system seems to have placed after the original by numbers. I hesitated to remove them since they are in the original package. And yes, I am trying to refix the chapter number. My mistake.