Ah finally the scumbag ikemen that has control over half of the school by the crotch appears. Someday I'll buy a gold ingot and save it for the author that decides that the mc will defeat this character by doing the most painful torture possible.
At first I thought that Gen just wanted a permanent punchbag, then the story developed and most of us thought that he was a jealous homo, but now I'm not sure what he really wants, maybe a sick form of keeping his childhood contacts.
This is one of the moments I'd like to ask some japanese person what happens there when you finally have the depressive breakdown, normally in many countries you'd find help and suffer from a minor-moderate distancement from family and colleagues, but I'm Just speculating that in Japan just...
Makoto's life is suffering, most of the time he believes this is too good to be real and the moment when he's sure that this is real enough to give the decisive step, the universe decides to cockblock him.
At this point is pure speculation given that we now have previous members of the God Hand but their numbers are the same, maybe they are a lot like The Endless, always someone in charge, but with different "people" having the role.