Quote Originally Posted by shinta|hikari View Post
I don't agree with Mikage being Sasuke. That would mean that she deserves to die right now. She is just a bit cold, nothing that warrants that.

I think Hachiken is trying and should go for the fourth option. 4) Butadon is not a pet, I should be able to eat him (or allow him to be slaughtered at least) if I want a future in raising farm animals, not because he tastes good and I wanna eat him.

Don't forget that realizing something is delicious is not just value for Hachiken eating it himself. It made him realize the value of the animals as food in general. It makes people happy to eat them because they are delicious. It is not something as trivial as "This tastes great, I wanna eat more." It is more like, "So this flavor can make someone feel happy, I now understand why people kill and eat meat."
Yeah, the "4th" option would work as well. The reason I limited to 3 above was that they were the 3 available options given his current dilemma,

Quote Originally Posted by Buff
or he no longer loves Butadon like a pet and should have no worries already.
As for Mikage, I found that she was really quick to deny that anything happened over the summer when she was asked by her senpai. Either she was aware of Hachiken's feelings and just wanted to deny them, or it's her usual response to her senpai's (frequent?) pestering questions.