[Qilin]

Originally Posted by Shikijin

Spoiler for Ii-chan:

That's not really it. The thing is, Ii-chan knew Mikoko had killed Tomoe. It didn't take him much to figure it out. He also already knew Mikoko was head over heels for him. In the end though he couldn't accept to be associate himself with a murderer, so he tried to sweeten the blow by taking Mikoko out for a date, and then said her something that would have made her stop hanging out with him. It was an indirect message to Mikoko, he wasn't really trying to force his views onto his peer. He would have liked Mikoko to confess to police. He didn't foresee Mikoko would have killed herself, in fact he stated beforehand he didn't understand other people's emotions (and he even talked with Zerozaki expressly to understand how a killer thinks like!).

Spoiler for interpretation:

This is how I interpreted it:

He figured out Mikoko's murder early on, so he decided to confront her about it under the guise of a date. He then indirectly condemns her actions and that she deserves to die or go to hell or such. Basically, he was aiming to burden her with the guilt of her crime. That's all he was hoping for. Afterwards, he expected her to turn herself in or somehow show some indication of her guilt. The fact that she ended up killing herself was a surprise to him, but it mattered very little since he already did what he wanted to do. The confrontation with Muimi proceeded in a similar fashion, albeit more direct to the point.

Which parts of it are wrong exactly?

If there was any character in this story he had a connection with (minus the recurring cast), it would be Tomoe, given their similar outward personalities, and that he personally felt responsible for her death.

Originally Posted by Shikijin

I think the original word was 偽善者, which literally means "person who feigns goodness", usually translated with "hypocrite". "Wolf" gives it an aggressive nuance, which maybe was not necessarily intended by the author.

That's how Del Rey translated it, though I didn't intend to use it in that context. I just meant that he consciously uses his aloof, apathetic exterior to hide something much more terrible.