... now that I see the poster of the manga... I can't fall for the idea the he is holding Tsubasa's hand... and the Ara-Ara cafe owner touching his face.
They are breaking my boy so badly.
The worst-case scenario happened... poor my man...
as I said in the previous number: TALK TO A DAMN THERAPIST. Friends are not trained to handle this kind of karma.
I wonder if it was a good Idea for Kaede to share those details with her on HER FIRST DATE. It is needed a therapist, but your girlfriend would definitively twist things unintentionally
Unless is to deceive that quadruple agent, that would be the only way that the character can set a trap for him to pass false info... the situation is... damn... quite serious here if he was really killed.