Ties
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Hakubi is 100% right, they're not going to sing kumbaya around a bonfire if they manage to undo the spell by controlling the master's soul. I don't see a way for this to end without some of them dying.
Sketch for >>288223389>>288224189Sure, but hey, you'll never know if you don't try
something occurred to me the other day bros...remember that yurako once thought to herself that she just has to "wait out" nanokaif the immortality spell is broken, then yurako loses the one advantage she has over nanoka (yurako already lost but breaking the spell would ruin her final cope)
>>288224441Judging by this chapter, she's already gearing up for the "depressed alcoholic" stage of heartbreak
>>288223380what does hyakka have in his mouth?
>>288224606waiting for daigo to dump a bunch of photos on the table of nanoka and mao making out which he got from the P.I. he hired >it's over for you, toots
>>288226675I don't think they have actually even kissed yetThe most they've done besides holding hands was that one time Nanoka had a blast patting Mao all over
>>288228122that's what the photos will reveal>that one time Nanoka had a blast patting Mao all overthat will also be included in the photos
>>288224189>I don't see a way for this to end without some of them dying.hakubi's definitely dying, shiranui's probably dead, daigo's doomed by the narrative, yurako's probably doomed toothe question is by who's hand will they fall?remember that rumiko killed naraku and *all* of his incarnations back in the day so i'm not expecting her to be any more merciful here
>>288223873doesn't yurako have any kind of maid or doorman, or even an ayakashi to keep an eye out?
furinkan got the mao newspaper that was given out at anime japanhttps://www.furinkan.com/features/interviews/maonewspaper01.htmlmost importantly of all, here's the 4-koma that rumiko drew for it :-)>picrel
>>288232195it also has some ads lol
>>288223380>>288225571 (me)seriously what is that>picrel
timeline-kun, have you made progress on the timeline since the last time?
What's bad about living forever again
>>288234785finding the right balance between getting so attached that every loss makes you want to kill yourself, and getting so apathetic that you stop giving a shit about everything and just rot in a ditch forever because you can't think of a reason to get up and do anything any moreand that's just the short term problem. the long term problem is needing to get the fuck out of dodge to a new planet before your star dies. and after that you got to find a way to escape to a younger universe before all the stars go out
>>288234832>getting so attached that every loss makes you want to kill yourself>getting so apathetic that you stop giving a shit about everything and just rot in a ditch forever because you can't think of a reason to get up and do anything any morewonder if all of them went through both of these, in cycles, every couple of centuries?also you forget the medium-term problem: needing to disappear/fake your death every couple of decades or else get accused of being a demon
>>288223892is he going to tell her about the master or...?
>>288234747I've been sick all week again and I don't want to talk about it
>>288233532Either some weird snack or possibly a fat Heian-era blunt
>>288236484it's been more than a week since the last time...regardless, personally i only have notes for the first two chapters of "volume 29" which i guess i'll post since they're the most mainplot-relevant ones of the volume and even relate to this chapter
we last left off on yurako poisoning daigo with moss that has creepy eyeballs because that exists chapter 279>through my ayakashi, I too was dragged into the five-sided temple's curse of immortalitydid the master know this would happen? was there a plan on what to do with her or did he just not care that she was getting dragged into this?>Shiranui told me that's why I have lived for so many centuries.after some thought i realize this probably means shiranui told her after the byoki told everyone, but what if it doesn't? what if shiranui knew about that detail before that moment?while shiranui wasn't in the know at the start, there's still a couple of months between daigo being chopped up and the night the clan fell, and shiranui got to witness first-hand how daigo kept moving even after being beheaded...though the following chapter seems to suggest that the master didn't tell him much else>picrel>>fatally poisoned>>pull up casually
>>288236734>picrelyou know there's something to be said about daigo telling sana about this situation with all the ugly details...man really heard the master say all that crazy shit and ran to his girl immediatelyalso this means that sana knew why people were dropping dead at the manor, and she knew mao's situation when mao himself didn't know...and then daigo never tells the team that sana knew everything about the death battle pretty much the entire timemaybe he doesn't think it's important to bring up since she's dead but i'm just saying, this kind of adds another layer to all of her interactions with mao and hyakka after the meetingit's possible daigo even told her about hyakka speaking up, which might've even influenced sana's decision to seek out hyakka specifically to burn the place down that night and then telling him to run and hide
actually going to be even briefer and stick to the most relevant parts to this chapter i need to catch some rest >>288236813chapter 280as far as we know, daigo didn't know about the bet between the master and byoki, and didn't know about the immortality thing, so as far as daigo knew sparing mao wouldn't cause any problemshe might've even planned to kill the master if he tried to make him kill mao>I sincerely believed I could protect Mao and control Byoki>and control Byokidaigo might've said too much there...and coming back to sana, we have this>picrel>>They saw what I did?! How long have they been watching?!how much did she see? did the master explain anything to sana? did sana bring up what she knew to her father?presumably, the master found sana and then, for whatever reason, took her back in the direction of daigo's grave and they caught sight of what shiranui was doingbut was the master coming upon this situation really a coincidence or did he know something was up?will next chapter with daigo's talk with yurako perhaps clear some of this up??
also the storytime really helped remind about some things, such as kamon being kind of more accusatory towards daigomaybe it's a case of "it takes one to know one">picrel
>>288236675I mean I did go through the chapters for volume 29 since last time, but I'm not going to make any guarantees of quality right now
>>288229935>hakubi's definitely dying, shiranui's probably dead, daigo's doomed by the narrative, yurako's probably doomed tooI think that only Mao and Nanoka are going to survive, and I'm not even that sure about Mao. Praying for my boy Hyakka to make it alive, too
>>288236813That's an interesting point. Sana didn't know the details, so she could have assumed that Shiranui was part of the death battle. It also raises the possibility that she intuited the clan's darkness and her own role long before the incident with Masago, so she could have been plotting revenge well in advance, which then went wrong somehow.
>>288239626but sana knew a lot of details, almost as much as daigo (there's still the question about whether or not he told her about haimaru/byoki)>she could have assumed that Shiranui was part of the death battle.about a good a guess as any of hakubi's guesses back then lol>It also raises the possibility that she intuited the clan's darkness and her own role long before the incident with Masago,everything daigo told her about the meeting is fucked up so the clan being a fucked up place would've been apparent but her own role is such a specific thing, seems daigo didn't know about itunless haimaru told her about what came out of her mouth at night... or even the master>so she could have been plotting revenge well in advance,I think she was but masago was the trigger that motivated her to actually go through with it I questioned before why sana would immediately believe that masago was dead, most people would've assumed it was just a terrible nightmare, but sana apparently knew it wasn't...also picrel is hardly the face of forgiveness
>picreldaigo truly is up in those mountains in dress shoes...
>>288238745somehow I forgot the byoki, that cat's definitely dying the big question for all of them is who will kill who?>Praying for my boy Hyakka to make it alive, tooI think he has good oddsnatsuno already served as the emotionally devastating death for nanoka and I'm sure daigo will serve that function for mao
>>288236501>fat Heian-era bluntbut so curly? hyakka needed to work on his joint rolling game
what do you think volume 29's cover is going to be?
they're selling these mao paintings now>https://a-onstore.jp/shop/R-T/SRW/art/
>>288248097the byoki looks pretty cool in this
