You know, I had my questions about Akira's character but everything finally clicked in this chapter: he's living on bullshit logic.
He's so dead set on his nihilism and defeatist way of seeing life that he actively refuses to believe there's another way. He'd rather live in a world where...
Gotta say I am thoroughly invested in this manga's worldbuilding, the political scheming is top notch and even though many characters are naive or incompetent, not a single one of them is stupid. All of them have a rich character deepness that is really not everywhere, even less in an isekai.
Holy crap, now those were some wild mental gymnastics!!!
How the hell do you go from "my husband is having an affair" to "my husband and my cousin are in a submissive relationship with a SM dominatrix"?!
Doing a super flashy, OP character in a gaudy fit, thinking it's the coolest thing ever and putting it through situations has to be an universal phase for all children with artistic inclinations... Pretty much all my buddies from my manga club had this exact experience at some point in their...
Gotta say, making the guy you're cucking pull off your pants right as you're about to fuck his SO is something so messed up I genuinely have never seen it before in any other media ever.