Ok. And what if Yuusaku is convinced that Ogata was the child born of love? What if he thinks that his birth tore Tome and his father apart? What if he has been taught that marriage is a matter of heirs, inheritance, and estates, not a matter of love? What if he interprets his father’s coldness towards him as blind obedience to propriety, not genuine love, for him or his mother? What if that’s why he’s so intent on following his father’s wishes and being a symbol for the army? What if following orders and doing what was expected—even if his heart may have lied elsewhere—was the only masculinity that was modeled for him, so it’s the one he follows?