Hmm, I like that take on it Yuki. Not something I thought about.


As for me, I expected that precise outcome the moment that Akiharu was given the tickets, even before Selnia and Tomomi found out about it. He's too dense (or as you point it disinterested) in romance with them. But because he's a nice guy, he sees two girls in a very heated competition for a single ticket, and he immediately thinks that they must really want to go to the water park. He figured it was the best way to make them both happy/satisfied, which as a servant-in-training, is his primary duty.

I wonder if Tomomi's brutality when they were younger didn't scar him for life. He liked a girl, confided in her, and was nearly immediately betrayed. Whether Tomomi was really solely malicious or just acting like an elementary school girl who picks on the boy she likes is up for debate.

But that is a bit on the bleak side, so I think a more appropriate to say that he doesn't consider them romantic interests because in his mind, the two are far out of his league. He is a servant, and they are both high class ladies. Tomomi already proved to him long ago that he wasn't good enough for her. He was her servant back then, or maybe even slave. Selnia is a rich and high class lady. He may have taken her down a few notches when they first met, and he didn't respect her because of her brash attitude. But the beach episode changed that. He saw that she acted in the way that is expected of those in the upper class. Akiharu probably can't even conceive of the concept of them liking him. I wonder what his reaction might be if the clumsy Shikikagami sister started to express a subtle interest in him. Perhaps he might not be so dense about it.

Like you said, if they two had been a bit more honest with themselves and with Akiharu, we may have seen a very different outcome. There was the similar event with Ayse. He didn't want her to be forced into marriage with a guy like him simply because he saw her naked on accident. But he reacted very differently when she wished that one day he might be able to accept her feelings. Selnia and Tomomi both saved him out of not wanting to lose him (before they both knew they loved him), but each made an excuse that he took.

Ayse might be even more of an upper class lady than Tomomi and Selnia, but once she admitted her feelings, he saw her differently, though it did not last for the rest of the season since she and Hedyeh immediately became side characters.