Here is my theory (springing from the aside in the last entry ):

At one point, the heroine of Pumpkin Scissors has to finally grit herteeth and meet her arranged fiancee. There's a lot of ways this couldgo badly for her, but actually he's a cool guy; he's nice, competent,powerful, understanding, and of course it turns out that he's one ofthe lead villains. How predictable .

But let's think of it from the other side

Author :

I may be wrong as usual, but I expect the opposing human-youkai teamto appear and maybe some conspiracy to rule the world thrown in, whichis what the 3 couplings of bumbling lovers are going to face. Heck, I'llguess more: the dude in the mask is probably the adjutant guy who we sawin the beginning of the 1st episode.

The adjutant (he's briefly named as Hanadate) reappears in the secondepisode as the Lieutenant who saves the day by defusing