Kariya...

[Altima of the Gates]

Would it? I can see Aoi simply accepting that as the norm. "The path of a magus is suffering", she has her duties as a magus' wife, so on and so forth.

She'd probably just be totally confused. I mean, her and Kariya? That's just crazy.

The important part would be what Zouken was doing to the family and why he turned away from Zouken because of that.

Since again, we don't know what happened to Kariya and Byakuya's biological parents, but considering what happened to Shinji's mother we can speculate.

[forumghost]

Kariya: "Tokiomi, Zouken fooled you! He just wants Sakura for her bountiful womb!"

[Altima of the Gates]

I meant before the Sakura incident.

My thing was saying you could make an ironclad argument that he should have mentioned the ulterior motives Zouken had for Aoi since their childhood and what it meant to be part of the Matou "family", since it's not like it's irrelevant for her.

I don't know about you, but I'd like a heads up about creepy old men in my neighborhood who somehow know my childrearing capabilities that my husband doesn't.