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What? Middle school ages are different in Japan. Hayato was like 15 and the other guy was like 16-17. Plus, we don't know when they started dating and when they were found out. Stop trying to justify what Hayato did just because he was a kid. Both of them were teenagers at the time. He wasn't "groomed", Hayato consented to it and loved the guy.
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All of you people are full of bullshit lol we don't know their age gap to say Hayato was groomed or whatever, they could be a year apart. They probably went to different high schools and that's how they were able to get away with their affair. Hayato's big brother being the genius kid that he is was possibly always busy with student council or something.
It's annoying that people are going so easy on him and placing all the blame onto the cheater. Hayato was old enough to understand that what he and that guy was doing was terrible and they were both teenagers, it was like a 2 or 3 yr age gap. They are both shitty people for what they did, stay mad lol.