Talk:Karao Saeki/@comment-10733658-20160221115828

Well, the latest chapter certainly has some shocking content. It seems on par with Ishida's usual method of handling really dark stuff, with cliffhangers and glimpses and implications but not a lot of graphic content.

Of course, there's a few possibilities of what could be going on/happening. Obviously, the one everyone has thought of and is worried about is a sexual assault. If it isn't that, then it would probably be another of Torso's violent episodes of just hitting people until he's exhausted. I wonder if that might be it, since he mentions in his diary reacting violently when he felt that his "lovers" were rejecting him in some fashion. Hence the mutilation and torture of his victims, because they cried or wouldn't look at him, or otherwise "hurt" him.

The fact he's wearing his mask in that scene is odd, too. There's no reason to hide his face, but pathologically wearing a mask is a way to separate oneself. We saw that with Yamori, who would put on his mask for torture sessions and become "Jason". Like Yamori, Torso seems to be very impulsive and emotionally immature. He's incapable of dealing with anything he considers rejection, and a control freak with numerous obsessive behaviors. (Finger tapping, photographing during a kill)

Like a lot of serial killers, he seems to have this ideal fantasy in his mind that he simply hasn't been able to satisfy. The reality can never be as good as what they imagine. If his "marriage" isn't going as he envisioned it, how would he react? If Mutsuki isn't making him feel like a person, and completing him, and understanding him the way he imagined.....then what?

(Hooray, second cup of coffee rambles.)