Now and Forever...Itsumademo... - Chapter 21C

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Title: Now and Forever…いつまでも…

Author: Unare Haineko

Pairing: [Juntoshi] Matsumoto Jun x Ohno Satoshi

Rating:  R-ish, but NC-17 for this chapter

Summary: [Revised] Three years after the ending of ‘Kodoku kara Umareta Ai’ (which you can read here), we have Juntoshi trying to raise their son Ayumu while the demons from the dark shadows that

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Analyses & Commentary, Chapter 21, Section 3, part 1

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* When I use the word ‘mad’, I use it in the primary UK manner where it means ‘crazy’ rather than ‘angry’.The next section of Ch 21 covers Ayu and the spread of minor characters. Going from what Ayu says does in this chapter and what he has been reported to do by the characters who have come into contact with him we are given a hint that Ayu will see a great deal of what goes on when Tomomi brings him to the recording of the telly show where Nino is the guest

Analyses & Commentary, Chapter 21, Section 3, part 2

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Now that we have established Ayu is someone who observes and reflects, and isn’t a boy who just blindly follows that which is told to him, let’s break down the section in which he appears

Analyses & Commentary, Chapter 21, Section 3, part 3

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A few things strike me. It is natural that Ayu would be fonder of Kazu-chan now that he has seen dinosaurs in the museum. So I think he means he wants to go the museum again with Kazu-chan so that the toy Apatosaurus can meet and play with his fellow kin. That would be what a child would think. I find it more interesting that he goes “For God’s sake” or “Um Gottes willen”.

(01) Why should Ayu say “for God’s sake”? What is it in relation to? Was he just repeating Isabelle? Or is he making a remark that he has misplaced Kazu-chan and wants to look for the toy Apatosaurus?

(02) Similarly, why did he say “can we travel there together one day”? Travel with whom? Travel where? And why does he want to go “there” with the unknown person(s)?

(03) Mr Ohno told his wife Ayu “…was telling me about German dinosaurs and all sorts of weird stuff they saw at the museum today”. The phrase “weird stuff” stuck with me. What sort of weird stuff did they see at the museum? Is it weird from Mr Ohno’s point of view when he heard it? Or is it because Ayu

Analyses & Commentary, Chapter 21, Section 3, part 4

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Another incident at the van Gogh exhibition is Ayu’s recitation of the guide’s talk on van Gogh’s Irises. Readers of this story and readers of my commentaries will instantly be reminded of Mlle Iris who would be Sho’s affianced. Most would fail to grasp the connection of van Gogh and his painting to the overall plot. But there is a very interesting connection. Van Gogh went stark raving mad in his later years, you know. In 1889 and 1890 Van Gogh stayed in a psychiatric hospital in the southern French village of Saint-Rémy. He worked hard there, seeking the majority of his subjects in nature. After a period of illness that ended in April 1890, he threw himself into the production of a number of flower still life pieces, many of them irises. If you look at the painting titled ‘Irises’, you would notice the effect is one of enormously divergent complementary colours that are exalted by their oppositions. ‘Irises’ is a study that he painted without making prelim sketches. And it was done a year before his death and slightly before his

Analyses & Commentary, Chapter 21, Section 4, part 1

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[ *This section may be unpalatable to readers. If you are offended by things such as drugs and the cold, scientific use of words like rectum, anus and so on, cover your eyes.

As we are done with the section on Ayu, let us proceed to his parents - the degenerate NaSA!Ohno and the hapless Jun. Ohno has truly sunk to a level where his NaSA tendencies are getting the better of him. Even in his slumber, he thinks of coitus. And let’s not forget the fact that since he encountered Reiya, he has an insatiable sexual appetite.

Since it’s more straightforward to discuss what’s wrong with Ohno. Let us begin with the Narcissistic Sex Addict (NaSA) Ohno.

On Ohno and DegenerationTo say that Ohno has degenerated and is on the path to self-destruction is an understatement (kind of like how soyjoy yoghurt bars are rather under-whelming). His NaSA ways seems to have increased exponentially ever since he crossed passed with fellow sex addict, Reiya. It has come to the point now that the Ohno Satoshi in Kodoai is now gone, and we have this

Analyses & Commentary, Chapter 21, Section 4, part 2

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I posit three theories to this second question

Analyses & Commentary, Chapter 21, Section 4, part 3

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(05)We are told that Ohno makes a play for Jun when the latter gets off the mobile.
- Well then, how long has Ohno been awake?
- Was Ohno in fact stirring when shamelessly humped the body pillow and when Jun took the call?
- What did he make of the phone call?
- If he had been awake long enough, he would have known Jun did not say anything into the receiver beyond “hello” and ‘Aiba’. Did Ohno overhear that?
- What is Ohno trying to distract Jun from?

On Jun and self-implosionDespite the general impression that Jun exudes of being hardboiled in the school of hard knocks in life, the truth is Jun lacks balls. It is as if he fears acquiring balls would lead him to explode and that would be the end of everything he knows and loves. So he keeps things bottled inside him until they boil over and he implodes. Literally, he falls apart from the inside and is corroded from the inside out because of it. The Jun who would seize life by the throat an throttle it until it gave out or gave up is now someone who wants to cling to his

Analyses & Commentary, Chapter 21, Section 4, part 4

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Ironically, Bols (pronounced Balls) is a brand of Dutch made gin. It’s pale blue in colour. Nitro-glycerine in its liquid state is the exact same colour as Bols gin. Give nitro-glycerine too much of a shake and kaboom - watch the discord follow as everything blows up into smithereens. What’s the relevance between Bols and Jun? Well, simple. Jun is like a walking vial of nitro-glycerin that has been left on his own for too long that people (such as NaSA!Ohno) have started assuming Jun is quite harmless like exotic gin. From this alone, we are given a hint as to Ohno’s complacency as well as Jun’s latent volatility. When Jun explodes (and it will be a matter of time as to exactly when he blows), it will be one hell of an explosion.

Now, some queries before I continue vis-à-vis Jun’s pain and other physical symptoms:

(01) Jun called for some snacks while Ohno hastily tripped off to the shower. What happened to the champagne and snacks that Jun called for? There is no mention of them anywhere when Jun comes to and takes Aiba’s call. All

Analyses & Commentary, Chapter 21, Section 5, part 1

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Since most of the main cast of characters in Itsumademo are unable or unwilling to see things for what they really are, and since these same characters are unwilling to look into themselves for the answers they should be seeking, the minor characters in the story provide the gears and platforms through which the main cast may finally wake up and smell the carrion.

In this section, I shall discuss that which the minor characters have revealed in CH 21 of Itsumademo and what it means for Sho and the rest of the main characters. In a neat irony, Sho is relegated to the role of a minor character when he appears because he is overshadowed by Vesuvius the Doberman, the things revealed by Julie, Dr Etrange and Mikeila.

Before we plump the hidden depths of things like who’s connected to who and how, and things like Latinate dogs, let’s touch on Sho’s lamentable habits.

Sho & His attempt to spin the wheel of fortuneIt may seem like Sho doesn’t do or say much in CH 21 beyond being cornered by Friend Vesuvius. But really, what we are not

Analyses & Commentary, Chapter 21, Section 5, part 2

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Of course, Aiba doesn’t realise he would be better off without Sho. The thing is - I doubt either one of them has noticed it - Sho refuses to come to a decision and choose between his mother’s wishes and his own because he knows Aiba won’t leave on his own accord. Because he’s so sure of that, he believes he can play them all and have it all. But as with most situations of this nature, Sho doesn’t even realise how much he needs Aiba unless Aiba shuts him out. We already have an inkling of this when Aiba returns from the JE drug party chapter and Sho is distraught. Sho of course doesn’t see this side of himself, but if and when Aiba truly leaves him, he will have to face up to it and then cue the slashing violins and Sho’s internal suffering. Really, I do believe it’s more likely that he’d realise how much he needs Aiba once the latter has shut him out. He doesn't believe Aiba would ever do that, and as such, it’s subtly giving him the unconscious message that he can continue to treat Aiba like crap and take him for granted

Analyses & Commentary, Chapter 21, Section 5, part 3

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However much I may think Sho needs to be hung upside and given a good smack on the head, the man does realise he is getting in over his head with this. Because he has an awareness of this on some level, he goes to see Dr Etrange

Analyses & Commentary, Chapter 21, Section 5, part 4

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As I have mentioned in a much earlier commentary, true knowledge is to know, hear, taste, feel, experience and see for oneself with irrefutable proof that something is indeed true. It is different from opinion. But Sho doesn’t make the distinction between opinion and knowledge. He assumes that because he thinks something of a given situation, it must be true. Recall his response to the blood orange chocolate Isabelle offers him in an earlier chapter - Sho jumped to the wrong conclusion based on incomplete knowledge and selective hearing. The same could be said for Sho’s handling of the situations in his life. Unlike Aiba who actually bothers to investigate his suspicions before making any definitive conclusion, Sho would just jump to one end and stay there. If something should deviate from his conclusion, he recoils and flees in the same manner he did from Isabelle’s office.

Now, we come to another question:
(03) Why did he go to see Isabelle? What was his original purpose in going to see her? What did he want to talk about? Aiba?

Analyses & Commentary, Chapter 21, Section 6, part 1

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Academic wrangling

It is likely that most of the minor cast in the academic circuit are connected to one another in one form or another, just in the same way the minor cast in the host club and drug circuit are connected to one another and JE in some way or the other. Remember, this is Itsumademo where to quote Miyazono, “there are no such things as coincidences.” The unifying common factors between both sets of characters are the JE characters such as our five main protagonists and the law offices of Miyazono Yuuichi.

The only question is how all the characters in the academic circuit are connected and how they are connected to the law offices of Miyazono Yuuichi and/or JE. I have no doubt Haineko will reveal that by and by.

Research Material & the Collision between the Greeks and the RomansLet’s start with the Restricted Materials archive in the basement. Yes, it is in the basement. That is significant. It means the knowledge is underground, not meant to be shared because it would be unpalatable to the masses. To take knowledge

Analyses & Commentary, Chapter 21, Section 6, part 2

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(02) From the nature of the research (distilling poisons from nature and testing them out on animals such as Vesuvius and the other dead specimens in the laboratory), I hazard a guess that this mad scientist was after more than renown. He must have been in someone’s pay, otherwise he would not have been able to stay on after his sabbatical had ended. While on is on research sabbatical, one gets funding from the university giving you the sabbatical on grounds that you will go back to said uni, publish your findings and bolster the uni’s name and so boost uni’s standing in the eyes of the academic world and impressionable parents. The fact that Herr Doktor stayed on even though the uni he was attached to at the time must have recalled him to work and demanded he publish his work and the uni would have cut his funding had he not complied. When they cut his funding, how did Herr Doktor manage to find the funds to continue? Who was mad scientist researching for? And to what end

Analyses & Commentary, Chapter 21, Section 6, part 3

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(03) The fact that there was no record of Herr Doktor’s employment and the existence of no records or documents in his folder should strike readers as suspicious. It was as though someone had gone through a great deal of trouble to erase the doctor’s presence, life and research. This smacks of a cover up by someone who is powerful economically and socially, someone with enough clout to pressure the university to bow to his/her wishes, someone who knew of the professor and his research (even though it was unpublished anywhere and Herr Doktor was awfully cryptic about his research with all his Roman references). All of which raises several questions

Analyses & Commentary, Chapter 21, Section 6, part 4

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Herr Doktor’s notes are full of references to Janus, Angerone and Vesuvius. What does this tell us about the doggie? Firstly, Herr Doktor may have experimented on Vesuvius. Secondly, the name Vesuvius is striking. And thirdly, Isabelle repeatedly likens the dog to Cerberus - the three headed dog guarding the gates of Hades and in so doing prevents souls from escaping once they cross the River Styx

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