#Tsumugi just resigned himself to it because that's what his standard approach to things seems to be

[starpros-sunshine]

I hate to be like this but would one really be able to say Eichi made the same mistake with Wataru as he did with Tsumugi?

Because on one hand he did expect Wataru to leave him and he also did so with Tsumugi but the way I see it is that with Tsumugi he didn't really assume that Tsumugi was there for anything else than "personal profit" (for lack of better articulation it will be phrased like this) and with Wataru I might even say that he was a little "meaner" (used a little liberally here because I feel like some nuance gets lost if I just say he was mean about it but that's an entirely different pack of worms) because there was a malice assumed. Does this make sense? In EP:link he said "You estimated when I would love both you and fine deeply, when I most certainly would not wish to part with you… And then you'll fade away, as if you were nothing more than a mirage, abandoning that which could have survived if given only a single drop of water." With which you can't really deny that there's a suspected malicious intent behind Watarus hypothetical actions here right? That's pretty clearly accusing him of planning his "revenge", or whatever else to describe it, to hurt.

And in Tsumugis case I'm not really sure if one could say there's also malicious intent assumed because, to me at least, it didn't seem so? He was very matter-of-fact-ly and business about it and there was a contract so it was probably mostly viewed as a business transaction type of deal. Granted I'm by far no expert on the intricacies of Eichis and Tsumugis relationship during the war era but I do think there might be a little difference here.