The Tyrant Falls in Love
恋する暴君 , Koi Suru Boukun, Koisuru Bokun
A first-year doctoral student in the agricultural science department at a university in Nagoya. He is extremely hot-headed and violent, and has a reputation as a tyrant among other students at the university, which leaves him with few social ties. After he is nearly raped by a gay professor and has other bad experiences with homosexual men, he becomes intensely homophobic. Even so, he unconsciously grows deeply emotionally attached to his research assistant and friend, Morinaga. He knows Morinaga is gay but keeps him close on the condition that his sexual orientation never becomes an issue. He tries to justify his dependence on Morinaga by telling himself that sleeping with him now and then is necessary to keep him in his life, though he refuses to admit why he needs Morinaga in his life at all.
