By chance, where do you read the manga? I’m frantically searching for scanlations (shoot, even the RAW Japanese version would be nice) but I’ve come up empty. ;O;

Any help would be appreciated~ ;)

What happened is that Aoki and Suzuki resemble each other, and Maki says at the end was, “I knew the two of them would be attracted to each other.”

Miyoshi was Suzuki’s fiancee, and it’s heavily implied in the manga that Maki loved Suzuki, though unclear if Suzuki returned his feelings (the reason why Suzuki never married Miyoshi was because he couldn’t choose between Miyoshi and Maki). Maki’s feelings for Suzuki are carried over to Aoki (one of those not directly stated out right love, but heavily implied enough that it’s pretty much there) which was why he was upset at Aoki and Miyoshi kissing.

Aoki obviously loves Maki, though if the love is romantic is debatable, and even if it is, he doesn’t realize it (especially since later on in the manga, Aoki and Miyoshi are engaged, but Aoki keeps on doing stupid stuff like always putting Maki before Miyoshi or accidentally calling Miyoshi ‘Maki’).

Miyoshi may also have some feelings for Maki as well. Yeah. Complicated.

So the scene at the end (in the manga, it’s a short story unrelated to the train case) is Maki having sex with someone. In the manga, Maki and his partner both speak (Maki’s partner asks him if he wants to be blindfolded), but the manga is careful not to reveal the gender of his lover (which leaves it up in the air for the fans if Maki is gay and in love with Suzuki/Aoki or not), and I guess to preserve that, the anime made the last bit speechless. But Maki wanted to be blindfolded because he says doesn’t want to see anything, and you get fragments of flashbacks that make up a short story about betrayal as well as bits of Suzuki and Aoki. I don’t know why he’s thinking about murder cases as he’s having sex, but there you go.

There’s more stuff at the end of the short story that the anime doesn’t go into where Maki thinks to himself that he doesn’t want his his secrets to be examined after his death, but he doesn’t know if he deserves that luxury and more heavy implications that he likes Suzuki/Aoki.

Basically, Maki is a very messed up individual.

Anyway I think it is Maki and Suzuki. I think this episode seems to imply some kind of complicated relationship between Suzuki, Maki and Miyoshi. And there were a few ambiguous things that could be interpreted in a few ways, including a close relationship between the two leads.

Some would say Kainuman, (and that would be a good shocker) but I think from looking at the whole series, probably the former scenario.

In any case, I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one enjoying this series. I was beginning to think that everyone else just abandoned it. ^^;