Wind Breaker Episode 7 Discussion

So Togame doesn't actually like picking on the weak, respect! And Wind Breaker's fighting choreography is always amazing.

But Togame's backstory confuses me. Choji recognized Togame's strength when he beats members of Shishitoren by himself, leading him asking Togame to join Shishitoren, Togame's confused but goes along with it. Then we get a slideshow of them hanging out and taking down Zinc together. Togame saw Choji kicking and "skinning" the guy who got defeated by "Zinc", he's shocked and questions Choji while telling him that wouldn't make the members stronger but then accepts it so that Choji could continue smiling.

Could someone explain?
I don't understand why Togame is yielding his feelings/beliefs for Choji's smile. Sure, they bonded but the slideshow didn't really provide much details.

@Akubyo togame explained near the end of the slideshow (after the part about strongest = most free) that he was bad at hanging out with people but with choji it felt he could enter the social circle and have fun. choji was very strong and seemed to have the most fun, so togame thought that by making him the leader, it would make the gang better.

basically we can infer that togame was a loner. choji was probably his first close friend. shishitoren was a place of belonging to togame because of choji. and choji was always sunny and smiling and having fun and he was strong. togame wanted him as the leader.

for the part where he wants choji to continue smiling, I'd say it's because pre-dark choji was always smiling and having fun. then choji became the leader and said it wasn't fun anymore. togame can't abandon his first (and probably only one at this point) close friend, so he thought that by taking on the burden of doing the bad things like "Skinning", choji wouldn't have to do this kind of stuff and would focus on smiling and having fun with the gang instead. maybe by staying away from the dark stuff, choji would be able to find his spark again and go back to smiling for real.

but yeah unfortunately that didn't happen. togame became an enabler for choji's mess instead. it seems like his fight with sakura and the whole "chasing a middle schooler" incident is waking him up and making him realize that shishitoren and choji aren't going to get better if he continues on like this.

but he's also losing his will to fight cuz he realized that shishitoren was in the wrong all along so what has he been doing and what would the fight be for anyway?