Your brain on hentai. You don't know what "young love" is, you've simply been sold it through a dosen different advertisments from an early age like so much Glanzbilder. You got captured by mass children's culture for the post-monolithic society.
The right sounds better, as it implies a kind of innocent, nervous discomfort, struggling to even formulate the point in her mind, let alone to get to it. It screams of young love, which the Japanese inherently understand as the best and perhaps only kind of true love.
I disagree. Mishima was never a philosopher at all but a poet. Mishima was from the first fundamentally a spectator, not least of the spectacular, as he grew up during WW2. In that most intimate way, Mishima is alien to us. Unless you're a terrorist.
This is why Mishima is the true philosopher of our time: no one else so fully embodied the Quixotic modern political zeitgeist. All modern politics is an exercise in aesthetic fetish — an attempt by the lost and aimless to capture a spirit of a historic moment long since decided.
Inner spiritual adultery, is in reality the struggle to overturn an intrinsically ‘adulterous’ union sanctioned by the social ego & establish a true marriage, which the social ego will immediately slander as adultery. [...] we must keep the secret bedchamber hermetically sealed.