You know I was prepared to hate Reicchi but this chapter made it clear that even though he doesn’t romantically love Kaoru that he was willing to marry her and hide his feelings to make her feel better. It’s not the correct thing to do of course but at least he didn’t just dump her completely from his life after he broke up with Risako. And of course that also gave him the opportunity to take Uta away from their parents and make her live with him. And the fact the he confessed that when he realized he still loves Risako after meeting up again rather than lying about means that he’s nice at heart but his feelings are mixed up