( he’s basically indicated as much (see: comment about repeatedly getting backed over by a truck). but it’s one thing to entertain the notion and the other to notice the distinct rewards of it—not that it really does much to convince makoto to change how he’s been conducting himself since arriving in the resort. with how he had spent his last few months prior to being brought here, he was happily taking advantage of his regained personal freedom in being a lot more discerning about who he actually sleeps with. which just means he hasn’t slept with very many people at all, all things considered.

it’s something he’s personally fine with. makoto is the type to value his agency far higher than luxury and comforts; he’s flatly not materialistic. as long as he’s not struggling to feed or clothe himself (which he certainly isn’t, with a little careful budgeting), he’s fine.

that, and he’s supposedly been having a lot more luck with avoiding a lot of the aphrodisiacs that others have been complaining about? he would say maybe it’s some sort of demon immunity, but… clearly that’s not the case with kazuya.

he ends up shrugging. ) If you can get this place to work to your advantage, why not? It certainly seems like it makes things like this easier. ( it hadn’t even really been in his head that what he’d asked might come off as judgmental—it’d just occurred to him as a thought when faced with how different one’s funds actually ended up looking like. why the hell would he end up judging when he had been working explicitly towards learning how to use sex to manipulate other demons before being brought here?

given how uninterested he is in material goods, it comes as no surprise that makoto isn’t much of a shopper. he accompanies kazuya for whatever he wants to look at, but otherwise he’s ready to check out and go whenever. )