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Understanding my resolve as a man with 理解

それでも歩は寄せてくる » Volume 2 » Page 98

Sakurako tells Takeru not to go to the shogi club as he’ll get in the way of Ayumu being with Urushi. However, as a new member of shogi club, and as a man, Takeru feels it’s his duty to show up. On his way to the shogi club room, he encounters Ayumu who implores him to come to the shogi club room.

タケル:
理解(りかい)してくれたか!!」
“You understood me, huh?”
「オレの(おとこ)としての!」
“As a man, my (duty)!”
(あゆむ):
「いや全然だ」
“No, not at all.”

理解(りかい) conveys (Takeru’s belief) that Ayumu has grasped and understood his resolve as a man.