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Sensei's clearly projecting her own issues onto Reiji, I feel. It's interesting that she hasn't taken the hint after Rei blocked her, yet there is a tragic element in that she knows so little about Reiji's personal life and yet views herself as its guardian or protector, very clearly trying to insert herself into it. If she had gone into Reiji's house, she probably would have eventually noticed his psychotic brother, his grandmother with dementia, the poor living conditions, and how his mother is starting to cling to him more and more, nor does she know about his relationship with Chako or Gen and the dynamic at play there. Basically, she's convinced on saving him, but does not fully understand the entire circumstances of his life nor what causes him to act in the ways he does. It's all the signs of a savior or messianic complex, where she believes she's the path to salvation or redemption, not realizing or admitting any wrongdoing herself.
Interestingly, this chapter reflects chapter 27, where he goes out with Nagi, except it serves to underscore a difference in that Chako's jealous is more underscored by a deeprooted concern, Ms Shiba's jealousy sprung as a sense of obligation and due to her desperation to find a man to marry, which sprung to her becoming overly attached. Compare to when Chako listens to the conversation between Reiji and the author and when the teacher listens to the conversation between Reiji and Chako. The teacher is focusing on herself and her relationship, and trying to preserve what she has, and redirects this selfish feeling into making herself the victim. Chako also thinks she's the victim but is quick to turn reveal she still holds Reiji's safety above any feelings of betrayal or contempt she may have had.
Her framing is interesting, too. What she did to Reiji was essentially tantamount to sexually exploiting an underage teenager boy who was in a very emotionally vulnerable state where he would be susceptible to coaxing. Yet, gradually, she's retroactively reframed it to the point where she sees it has her trying to console him, and she keeps justifying her actions, almost to prove to herself that she is moral and just, and that she's not like the people around her, to the point where she is willing to stalk a pair of underage kids in order to try and tear them apart so she can have one of them be solely dependent on herself. Hence why she almost pleads to herself to be willing to let him go.
On an unrelated note, I do like the symbolize of him viewing his hands and touch as bloody, almost like he feels anyone he has intimate contact with is a form of damnation in and of itself and so he tries to avoid getting intimate with others as much as possible, which, given the company he's kept so far, is not a far off assumption. Nagi does not care about who she sleeps with, only that she ends her hollow and empty sense of self. Ms. Nagi is egocentric and has a savior complex and so projects her issues and feelings onto Reiji in order to try and save him form what she views as his damning associations. His mother is whoring herself to his bully's father and has been for years, and he only recently has realized she's as suicidal as he is with some implied covert incest or Jocusta complex. It's very natural that he would view anyone who tries to get involved in his personal life as someone who risks getting hurt or tainting themselves, which is why he's so reluctant to do anything with Chako.
@Richman
Interestingly, this chapter reflects chapter 27, where he goes out with Nagi, except it serves to underscore a difference in that Chako's jealous is more underscored by a deeprooted concern, Ms Shiba's jealousy sprung as a sense of obligation and due to her desperation to find a man to marry, which sprung to her becoming overly attached. Compare to when Chako listens to the conversation between Reiji and the author and when the teacher listens to the conversation between Reiji and Chako. The teacher is focusing on herself and her relationship, and trying to preserve what she has, and redirects this selfish feeling into making herself the victim. Chako also thinks she's the victim but is quick to turn reveal she still holds Reiji's safety above any feelings of betrayal or contempt she may have had.
Her framing is interesting, too. What she did to Reiji was essentially tantamount to sexually exploiting an underage teenager boy who was in a very emotionally vulnerable state where he would be susceptible to coaxing. Yet, gradually, she's retroactively reframed it to the point where she sees it has her trying to console him, and she keeps justifying her actions, almost to prove to herself that she is moral and just, and that she's not like the people around her, to the point where she is willing to stalk a pair of underage kids in order to try and tear them apart so she can have one of them be solely dependent on herself. Hence why she almost pleads to herself to be willing to let him go.
On an unrelated note, I do like the symbolize of him viewing his hands and touch as bloody, almost like he feels anyone he has intimate contact with is a form of damnation in and of itself and so he tries to avoid getting intimate with others as much as possible, which, given the company he's kept so far, is not a far off assumption. Nagi does not care about who she sleeps with, only that she ends her hollow and empty sense of self. Ms. Nagi is egocentric and has a savior complex and so projects her issues and feelings onto Reiji in order to try and save him form what she views as his damning associations. His mother is whoring herself to his bully's father and has been for years, and he only recently has realized she's as suicidal as he is with some implied covert incest or Jocusta complex. It's very natural that he would view anyone who tries to get involved in his personal life as someone who risks getting hurt or tainting themselves, which is why he's so reluctant to do anything with Chako.
@Richman
