Please stop forcing switches on everyone. People like different dynamics. The two characters have different personalities and it's different when a certain one is the top and the other is the bottom
Rejects being a duo yet he wore one half of the mantra.
I think deep down, he wants to stand besides his brother.
But killing his father drove him to the deep end.
To me, this chapter paints Ibuki as a coward to me.
I can't ever subscribe to the notion that Natsuki a loser.
natsuki struggling with a flawed recollection of events, fabricating the remaining fragments to cope with trauma aiming to get the kumeyuri, the enchanted blade whose purpose is psychological warfare through hallucinations and illusions
i think hokazono prefers to put complexity/nuance into the response to trauma rather that the traumatic situation itself. kagurabachi is, after all, a manga that concerns itself with making something different out of your heritage. (at least, that's how i see it)