And thus “Operation Climax” ends as a complete triumph – and that after somewhat inauspicious beginnings. Snatch jawed from the defeat of victory…or words to that effect. >_> I think that phrase gets worse every time I try to use it.
Anyway, triumph is triumph and Mopey gets to be all smug about it. Which she doesn’t get to be all that often, but smugness ranks highly amongst her favorite states of being…so she’s really living her best life here.
And, yeah, nothing actually happened between Youichi and Hiroki during that night in the love hotel. All the evidence of such was fake and planted while they were knocked out from the tranquilizer darts. All based on Mopey and her BFFs feeling that the two would find it easier to accept the idea of being in a relationship if they believe it’s already a reality they just have to wrap their heads around it, rather than just something potential. The team felt that Youichi, in particular, would have had a long and difficult psychological journey from a current mental state of established yankiness to a potential future of practiced gayness – tricking him into believing that he was already at the endpoint before the journey even started saved everyone a whole lot of time. And it saved Hiroki a lot of mental anguish, since there certainly would have been an extended period of constant back and forth in the development of their relationship, if Youichi would have been left to figure it all out on his own.
More on Thursday.