Welcome to the club, Megumi. The paperwork is in order (as you would expect from Mopey), and Marumaru could not see any signs of coercion being involved (as you would expect from the eyesight of a one-eyed, drunk ronin. Especially one with benefits to gain from not noticing.)

And hey, looks like that sensitivity training for Marumaru might have done some good after all! He might not be terribly sensitive to the feelings of midgets, but it looks like he’s become a firm LGBTQ+ ally at least.

As long as it suits his own purposes, that is…which is not the definition of an ideal ally, admittedly, but still the way most alliances in human history have worked.

Learning that Hiroki is sadly single, Marumaru orders Mopey and Megumi to procure a boyfriend for him post haste. There might be some passages in the teacher’s code of conduct that might argue against the propriety of ordering pupils to become homosexual procurers, but I’m sure they can be set aside under the circumstances. After all, Marumaru’s main job right now is being coach to the cricket club, which has a critical shortage of members – so all of these secondary stipulations of the code can certainly be subordinated to that main goal. There’s probably something in there about prioritizing in the case of conflicts, and that should apply here, right? I wouldn’t know, I haven’t read it. Neither has Marumaru.

And there’s little doubt now that it’ll happen. For one thing, plot necessity. And for the other thing, Marumaru has that serious, stern samurai expression going on. When a ronin has that sort of expression, it’s gonna get real.

More on Monday.