Usazawa is clearly wise beyond his years. Expectation management is key. Young people often make the mistake of expecting anything but shit from life, and they’re really setting themselves up for disappointment with that attitude. If you teach yourself to view the whole thing as a pit of despair, you’ll be right 80% of the time, and the rest of the time you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
That being said, he is moping on a pretty high level…for, god, his bedroom is about the coolest pad a teen goth guy could dream of. I shudder to think how much moaning and moping he had to do to get his parents to spring for that sort of gothic splendor. Or, I don’t know…perhaps his parents are simply very rich and very disengaged, and left the design of his bedroom to him without any interference. But, yeah, it’s a goth dream…or nightmare, I guess? Anyway, if Usazawa ever manages to befriend a teenage vampire, the latter will want to hang out at Usazawa’s pad, rather than his own, because it’ll be inevitably much cooler. Few vampires in the new world get to enjoy the inhospitability of an ancient, ruined church…most have their coffins stuffed away in dusty attics or basements.
As for Mr. Belzebusa, he just isn’t himself before his morning coffee. He’ll be radiating malice and evil after breakfast, but right now he just isn’t really awake yet.
More on Thursday.