Huge update and despite having predicted a lot of twists of the twists, it's still a huge mindfuck. Also CJ and Hayato are a really dynamic duo. One gets everything wrong and the other believes everything unconditionally despite saying otherwise... So annoying that asshole grandpa is the price CJ has to pay for having a harem lol. Damn it Auxo.
I wouldnt say that CJ believes everything unconditionally, i think the problem is more that he just dont know wheres up and down at this point. There are so many possibilitys, truths, half-truths, misinterpreted truths.
Existenial questions even if granddaddys interpretation is obivously at least partially wrong.
Im not even sure the outcome the grandpa described is the worst outcome cj imagined, i feel like him being a "puppet" would be more bearable for him than him being the creator of all this pain, its too much responsibility and decisional power.
But yeah grandpa is good at confusing him at the worst possible moments