Buraiden Gai Chapter 4 Discussion

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                        Gai is one hard to read and headstrong little bugger.  Compared to the likes of Kaiji and Kurosawa he hardly expresses himself outside of slight anger or nervousness.  He wants to take this all on his own shoulders, this is his fight, this is his boat, and he’s going to get out of this alone.  Even if it means breaking out of where he’s taken and forcing the perpetrator to confess.  What a little action hero, screw the civil courts and screw help!  He was ready to take on a group of like 100 police by himself after all.



Abe is interesting here, coming to Gai’s side to tell him everything and offer him help!  He gave another weirdly courageous line here, “Can’t be helped.  It’s the duty of a person who knows the truth”.  It sounds like it’s straight out of moral philosophy like deontology.  Yet I’m sure he’d say it’s another thing he made up on the fly and if so I must say he’s freaking good at making stuff up and manipulating conversations.  I suppose he’s charismatic.  But like last time, even if he wasn’t fully honest with his words, last chapter showed Gai and Gai’s desire to change his situation was striking for Abe.  That kid didn’t leave his mind and he did get the intuition to go check on him.  It’s also notable that Gai hasn’t stopped being mysterious.  We were in Abe’s perspective in their confrontation, we stayed with him for one of his normal days, and we came with him to meet the quiet Gai here.  Abe’s the current MC for sure!  I wonder if we’ll switch to Gai, I do obviously assume we do, probably when he’s taken away.



The way Gai speaks about how he needs to be the one to take revenge, that he has to do this all personally makes me feel like he knows who framed him.  I wonder if someone in this process got him falsely charged.