I made a mistake thinking this week was break week
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Summary soon
>>283624969The placement of this Nijimura scene feels like there is some kind of parallel universe thing going on.
Bump
We start with a flashback to Yume and Hama meeting up and talking about Nijimura coming to visit Hama. Yume remembers her, but only as "Mura-chan". They're both looking forward to it.Now, unto the present, Hama meets with Tokiko in Akagawa's office. Tokiko asks about Deborah, but Hama doesn't know how she is. They then broach the topic of Hama's illness, and it's just as she guessed.Hama's body and personality are of two different people, just like Yayoi Kokuryou. Her memory issues and other symptoms are due to an error from the early developmental stage of the procedure. Tokiko knew everything all along.
Akagawa asks if this procedure is "the only one Q successfully developed" and if it never had anything to do with Yume. Tokiko replies "I don't remember ever saying so."Hama cuts in, asking the core question: Who am I?Scene change to Yume and Yin in a park. Yin is explaining to her that he and Jin are foreigners who moved to Japan after causing too much trouble, with most of their former company now being dead. Yin was the first to come, and after a while, Jin did as well.They've always been living amidst the mafia and other underground societies, so it's only natural they'd be involved in bad stuff, but during their first meeting in a long while (in Japan), Jin said something weird:"It was all orchestrated by Yayoi Kokuryou."Back to Tokiko, she begins to talk about Hama's mother. Her name was Kasumi Momoyama, a former Q researcher, and the person who developed the procedure. It does seem that she died soon after Hama's birth. But did she truly die?Again with Yume and Yin, he elaborates that they're the only successful "Anti-Gray Strengthened Subjects" and were left in battlefields since they were babies to test their performance. Once they grew up, they were put against Grays. Everything here was told to him by Jin, who proved it to him by punching him, like a muscle-for-brains.Yin further elaborates that they're each other's last living relatives, so without anything to do, he helped Jin's search.Hama drops the bomb: "I'm my mother, aren't I!? She used this procedure to live forever, didn't she!?"Tokiko continues: They, Q, made a clone of Kasumi and then transferred her consciousness into it, but as she said earlier, there were many errors in the procedure back then. Hama is right, there is no such person as Nagomi Shirahama.Hama asks if her father knew about all this. Tokiko replies that she should see for herself.
Now, unto Kuroiwa's office, she states she can tell everything there is to know about Tatsuya, but only once the stamp form is fully filled out. There's 4 left, but she's willing to give all 4 of them under one condition: they take the job she herself chose.They accept and she says this might be the last job they'll ever take from her, so before that, she wants to know one thing:"Can you see this red line?"The job's title is either "Demolition Crew" or "Dissection Specialist".That's it for now, next chapter on Friday.
Btw, Kuroiwa is apparently a man actually lmao
>>283627517This is biggest twist wtf
>>283626070Are they trying to gaslis her?We know what she look like when she was teenage, and she going the same school as yume
>>283628204My guess of what happened is that Hama is a true clone, meaning no genetic modifications and born from an actual womb (her mother's womb), at which point they took her to a Q lab and did the procedure, which failed. So even though her mother's consciousness was in her body, she was basically a normal baby, no past memories and all. To put it simply, Hama is still Hama. That brings up the question of what issues her illness creates then. Maybe her brain is continuously trying to erase memories to let her mother's consciousness actually take over.
Wonder how much we have left, going off of this visual. The mystery is deffinetly unraveling but dunno if this will be the last of Kuroiwa cases or last of cases overall. Feel like it's just for Kuroiwa because we still do have the Designer not moving and whole Nijimura shtick, but that could simply be revealed with this case ig, no clue. I do think that Hama is still Hama, and that Kasumis clone conciousness is fighting with her own, hence the memory losses and gaps and whatnot.
