YESSS excellent combo of Toraji Torture Hours and all the happiness and lovey-doveyness we could've asked for 😍😍 They basically got married there at the riverrr!!! 🤩💕🎉
And absolutely, this backstory makes so much sense for Toraji! We know that he has an obsessive personality, since he's been looking for Yaetatsu for so long after he disappeared in such... less than ideal way, but we never really got to see what that really looked like and why it's bad. It really casts a new light on their reunion and everything Toraji has done since, as you said, and makes the story all the better on a second re-read, which is a kind of story I really love 💕 (Not to mention that I'm especially weak for characters who come from a violent past and are afraid they might (even inadvertently) perpetuate it and hurt someone they care about 🥺)
Hahaha, I also loved the flashbacks of everyone dressing Toraji like a huge, huge, scary Barbie XDD Tbh, at first I was a bit HMMM about Yaetatsu telling everyone about them behind Toraji's back, but then I imagined Toraji having to sit in for that conversation with the servants, and I immediately went nop, Yaetatsu was right about this one, actually, well done XD
I think it's not too much of a spoiler to say that Enboku-sensei will keep turning up in the next volume, too, and even try to make some amends for all the trouble he caused . So look forward to more of him (but not as much XD) soon!