Let me put it another way: this erotica fiction writer has been pinning for this beautiful, mysterious woman, feeling he's not enough, too old and too foolish for the whole series, just now a couple chapters ago that same woman also came to terms with her feelings for him, and KINDA reciprocated them but not fully. Now he's sick in bed with the deadly japanese cold and feels like shit, can you blame him for wanting to burn himself out with one last flame of love and desire before expiring? does that make him a lesser character in your eyes?
You're missing the point here. What happened last chapter? Well, right now we don't actually know anymore. But what
sure as shit seemed to have happened last chapter? Dude literally pressured Yukino into sex after she confided in him that she's afraid of the dark because of a childhood trauma that she hasn't worked through. This, by the way, is where he became a lesser character. He died last chapter. I'm waiting for his resurrection, but that's not gonna happen.
What would the kind, decent, romantic man we had 28 chapters of be thinking as he lie dying of the Japanese cold?
Will he finish the story he set out to write about Yukino? Did he do the right thing? Was all of this just part of the fox' spell?
He doesn't think about her warmth or any sensation of her at all. He's thinking "I GOTTA BUST A NUT INSIDE HER BEFORE I DIE THE WAY A ROCK SPIDER DOES" like some sort of complete psychopath.
This... isn't him. He has been killed. RIP Rokuro, killed by Jousei love of dysfunctional male leads.