Kusuriya no Hitorigoto, episode 23
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So Lakan isn’t as much of an ass as he was initially presented as. This episode was a bit of a difficult watch, Feng Xian clearly didn’t want to be bought out but once the bid reached too high to turn down she challenged Lakan hoping to get him to buy her instead. What an awful position for her to be in, before she was just a tragic backstory for our protagonist but now she’s a character who I felt sympathy for and hoped things would turn out better even knowing they won’t.
It’s really incredible how everything slowly comes together in this show, I imagine I’d enjoy it a lot more if I binged it instead of watching weekly cause there’s some stuff that I forget from previous episodes.
Yeah this episode explains a lot of Lakan’s earlier actions. He was basically communicating in the only way he knew how. If his family we’re more attentive he might have been better at sensing social cues instead of seeing everyone as game pieces. It’s pretty clear to me at least that he’s not actually incapable of it, he’s just trying to understand something unfamiliar by reframing it in the context of a game.
Yeah, currently it definitely seems that he isn’t a bad person, the dominoes just fell in such a way that we are where we are and not because he intentionally abandoned Fen Xian and Maomao.
This episode also revealed that Lakan’s uncle is Maomao’s adoptive father, wonder what affect that’ll have on the story going forward. I hope they’ll explain why Lakan never tried to find out what happened to Fen Xian, it seems he just assumed she passed away completely unaware of her current status.
Ah it all makes sense now. Lakan isn’t a schemer, he’s just bad at expressing himself. Lakan’s reputation as a “genius strategist” is just because of his affinity for Chess and Go but clearly he struggles with more messy human problems.
As an aside, while I know about face-blindness, this makes me curious to look into it in more detail. Intuitively it makes sense that people would focus more on things like tone of voice and body language but I wonder about the nuances.
I feel so bad for Fengxian. Lakan was so focused on enjoying the game that he assumed that things would return to the status quo. It’s no surprise that he got beat with a broom because he must look like a cold-hearted bastard from the outside. He definitely seemed like it in earlier episodes so I really like how the show kind of foreshadowed his true nature with all the hints. Dumbass needs to learn talk-no-jutsu lol
Lakan isn’t a schemer, he’s just bad at expressing himself.
I think it’s a bit of both, he is a schemer and he comes off as cold and uncaring because of his face blindness. Like in previous episodes, his visits to Jinshi definitely showcased his scheming side.
