John Brown

There’s one thing that bothers me. And that is:

Naru calls Mai ‘Taniyama-san’.

It was all just a cultural difference mistake that Naru makes (which ends up biting him in the ass later when Monk, Yasuhara, and John figure out his identity in book 12) Later on, even after he realized his mistake he would only call Mai, ‘Taniyama-san’ when he was introducing her, and when he was mad at her (I think.) 

But in the sequel he has completely distanced himself from her and she did the same to him. Any kind of closeness they had was gone. My theory was that Mai was of course embarrassed by her mistake of thinking Naru was Gene and confessing, then realizing her love was dead and Naru (of course this is a theory) kind of got his heart broken. I think he really loved Mai (not that he would ever admit it to himself or anyone else) and all the cute things Mai did, all the blushes and stuttering…and yelling his name when she was in trouble…were supposed to be for Gene.

Seriously Mai, ouch.

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