Garner has special feelings for Tashiro that are different from others, and even loves Tashiro - which is the most interesting interpretation of the story.
There is also no hard evidence against this explanation in the story, and one could even say that all clues point to it as the most likely explanation.
Did Tashiro and Garner have a good time? Preferably not, for reasons similar to the first paragraph. Hijikata Toshio just speculated/brained that they had a better time.
Hijikata's reason is that it's better to be happy than to cause Garner to automatically enter the female role when he meets Tashiro, which causes him, whose swordsmanship is far superior to the opponent, to be defeated. Based on the fact of winning and losing, if there is no joy, it will increase the possibility of Ghana's love Tashiro.
The beautiful young Ghana and her emotional world are distorted and have pure beauty. I want to believe the so-called Okita kills Ghana and Ghana loves Okita. I just want to see this kind of sick cherry-like beauty to the mainstream of sunny moral paranoia of surrender.
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