mamasaiko:

In :re quest chapter 3, Ishida seems to be implying that Mutsuki could be developing some feeling for Urie, even if he himself isn’t aware of them.

We can see how he is watching at him from afar, even being able to perceive his mood changes.

“…I wonder what Urie-kun is finding so funny,” Mutsuki murmured. He had just stepped out of the conference room when he had come across Urie. Urie’s face looked the same as ever, but Mutsuki felt there was something different about him.

To the point in which Urie’s scent far from disgusting him is a familiar smell for him

“Mutsuki contemplated. The type of art that Mutsuki was most familiar with was paintings for sure. Though one of the biggest reasons for that was because Urie painted on a daily basis.

The smell of oil paint would ooze from Urie’s room and even from Urie himself, and Shirazu and Saiko would often call him stinky without a moment’s hesitation. But to Mutsuki, it felt like that familiar scent exuded Urie, exuded his coldness and prickliness. Was he thinking that way because he had experienced Urie’s solitude during the Auction Operation?”

Perhaps with the passage of time and when mutsuki has calmed down, these feeling will develop in something more than friendship.