I guess we might know more in the next chapter during his drunken talk. I guess Ran is going to make him drink a lot more. Spill it all, buddy!

I doubt the next chapter will be more of this dude. In fact, I predict the next two will have little to do with it beyond Ran glancing at Keiko a lot.

Probably. Also going to bet this ends with Keiko getting back together with the guy.

I don't think so, I'm a bit baffled at how this is going to end honestly... This might have a non conclusive ending.

While it's true that this author did yuri, this runs in web Josei publication.

But if this doesn't have a yuri end... you'd think that potential love interest for either of those two would come around much sooner. Yet nothing of the sort came about. Maybe the author plans to have this run for quite some time?

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ugh I am rereading this now, dammit it is so long between releases that I forget what happens, but this is getting interesting... so sad too, but I don't want keiko to end up with a jerk

will Keiko end up with this guy

Well, I don't think that Keiko will end up with this guy again. I mean, he said it himself, "in the end, I was the one that got tired", so it seems like they were dealing with it for a while. Seeing how everything progressed, I think the pregnancy was pretty brief---most likely she had a miscarriage before she reached her first trimester. Also judging by the reactions from her friend Saki, the pregnancy and miscarriage really changed Keiko.

Besides that, just looking at the time frame and time skips, she ended her relationship with her fiance shortly after New Years, which would be in the beginning of the year. But the current season is autumn/fall, so that would mean that they had broken up for about a little more than half a year?

(Just realized time passes rather quick here. The only actual date was in chapter 18, when it was around August 15th. Other than that, we only know that Keiko met Ran when Keiko was a 3rd year and Ran was a 1st year, and it's been about 6 years since they've met. Supposedly also around August.)

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F.U chap 21 ᕙ(｀皿´)╯

You know it's gonna be good when the very first page contain stretches

HUH?

And this is where shit goes down...or at least when we get to learn the back story...
EDIT: In any case, I really can't wait to read the next chapter.

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well that happened

Whoa, I really wasn't expecting that...! I hope that the next chapter will also deal with the plot rather than letting it wait as before.

will Keiko end up with this guy

Well, I don't think that Keiko will end up with this guy again.

I don't think that's going to happen either; I think Keiko needs to get over what happened in the past, rather than return to it. Also, judging by Ran's reaction, I don't think she'll be very happy if he gets together with Keiko again - maybe it's just my yuri goggles, but it seems to me that she would be displaced by such a relationship.

I look forward to the next chapter, as always.

Is it finally going that direction?! Ohhhh My Gawd! I HOPE IT DOES!!! >.<

Please, I can't stand an end with that pairing. Yep, I seem a fucking fungirl but that's so stupid! Or maybe just hopeless... to me.. ç_ç

About the kid, that's totally normal, Keiko is definitively more impactful in his life then a child that never came. Men don't bond the same way because they don't carry the children. The bond between father and child is something that happens after birth.

The loss of the baby is definitely less important to him than the lost of his girlfriend / ex-fiance.

ok, so I am not trying to be a jerk, and for sure the bonding of mother-child is definitely more intense than the bonding of a father-child before birth. that being said...

I am going to go on record here for the sake of all considerate/sensitive men everywhere and say that we do care!!! if my partner were to get pregnant that child's life would be just as, if not more important to me than the relationship (not the life of my partner, but the relationship) I would have with my partner. and if my partner were to miscarry, i would 1) be super worried about my partner's mental and physical health, BUT 2) i would also be upset that our child was lost (and its no one's fault, i would definitely not blame my partner, and i would try to be as considerate as possible in how we as a couple dealt with the miscarriage. i am just saying that it would not be something that i would relegate to the realm of "out of sight, out of mind")

once again, i just wanted to clear that up, at least for myself because i don't think that way (meaning what Evilnemesis said or how the guy in ch21 was acting). other than that i agree +/ follow most of the speculation/ideas that Evilnemesis put forward. so try not to get mad, just try to understand my viewpoint :P

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Is that guy even the father? I thought it was implied that Keiko fooled around a lot back in the day

I doubt the next chapter will be more of this dude. In fact, I predict the next two will have little to do with it beyond Ran glancing at Keiko a lot.

... Which will quickly turn into burning, passionate stares, amirite?

guys, there's a more important thing you missed to discuss on the earlier page!
I means, she just broke her button with stretching, that bastard Ran!

Say, is Keiko a rare name ? I wonder if Ran knew about Keiko's past so she can relate THAT Keiko to THIS Keiko..

guys, there's a more important thing you missed to discuss on the earlier page!
I means, she just broke her button with stretching, that bastard Ran!

That was awesome
And sexy

I think Ran should be the kind of popular girl, well, she's pretty, stand out, funny, bigboobs and stuffs... I'm suprised that there aren't any guy flirting her

Even if she's like this:
http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/stretch_ch19
But in real life does guys really care about that ? I think that's kind of cute tho..

And she don't seem have any interested in romance stuff, I wonder why.
http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/stretch_ch17#4

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I doubt the next chapter will be more of this dude. In fact, I predict the next two will have little to do with it beyond Ran glancing at Keiko a lot.

... Which will quickly turn into burning, passionate stares, amirite?

Significant glances, but not immediately explained.

About the kid, that's totally normal, Keiko is definitively more impactful in his life then a child that never came. Men don't bond the same way because they don't carry the children. The bond between father and child is something that happens after birth.

The loss of the baby is definitely less important to him than the lost of his girlfriend / ex-fiance.

ok, so I am not trying to be a jerk, and for sure the bonding of mother-child is definitely more intense than the bonding of a father-child before birth. that being said...

I am going to go on record here for the sake of all considerate/sensitive men everywhere and say that we do care!!! if my partner were to get pregnant that child's life would be just as, if not more important to me than the relationship (not the life of my partner, but the relationship) I would have with my partner. and if my partner were to miscarry, i would 1) be super worried about my partner's mental and physical health, BUT 2) i would also be upset that our child was lost (and its no one's fault, i would definitely not blame my partner, and i would try to be as considerate as possible in how we as a couple dealt with the miscarriage. i am just saying that it would not be something that i would relegate to the realm of "out of sight, out of mind")

once again, i just wanted to clear that up, at least for myself because i don't think that way (meaning what Evilnemesis said or how the guy in ch21 was acting). other than that i agree +/ follow most of the speculation/ideas that Evilnemesis put forward. so try not to get mad, just try to understand my viewpoint :P

Not a jerk at all, it's hard to understand exactly what someone is saying online. I'm not saying men are not able to understand, just the bond is stronger ( if I were saying that, I'd be saying that I can't either ).

There's still the possibility that he did not know she lost the baby before they went separate ways. Because he clearly said something like "I don't understand what happened and / or changed".

You'd have to be quite the dimwit to not understand why suddenly a woman would feel this way after such an experience.

I was actually quite shocked at first and that's why I theorized that it's possible he wasn't aware at the time of the break-up because someone can't be so insensitive ( in my mind ). Although, people have shown me otherwise in the past.

This could also be the typical Japanese salary man not understanding anything else aside work, work... and work.

But I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise.

Also, for those that think they're going to hook back up, are you nuts? There's just too much pain associated with that relatively quick ( shotgun marriage ) relationship. This might not be a yuri end, but there's no chance in hell that this relationship rekindle.

Not a jerk at all, it's hard to understand exactly what someone is saying online. I'm not saying men are not able to understand, just the bond is stronger ( if I were saying that, I'd be saying that I can't either ).

There's still the possibility that he did not know she lost the baby before they went separate ways. Because he clearly said something like "I don't understand what happened and / or changed".

You'd have to be quite the dimwit to not understand why suddenly a woman would feel this way after such an experience.

I was actually quite shocked at first and that's why I theorized that it's possible he wasn't aware at the time of the break-up because someone can't be so insensitive ( in my mind ). Although, people have shown me otherwise in the past.

This could also be the typical Japanese salary man not understanding anything else aside work, work... and work.

But I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise.

Also, for those that think they're going to hook back up, are you nuts? There's just too much pain associated with that relatively quick ( shotgun marriage ) relationship. This might not be a yuri end, but there's no chance in hell that this relationship rekindle.

I suppose it is more likely that he doesn't know, just because both of us agree that there is no way someone could be that big of a jerk and call themselves human :P but if that is the case then it definitely proves that keiko was not attached to him in any other way besides the kid, so much so that she didn't even feel obligated to tell him about losing the child.

so yeah, no way they are getting back together. not only because what I mentioned above, but because if the author wanted to have a resolution with this guy then the author would have introduced him in a different way. I see this as a way to advance the relationship between ran/kieko, maybe not towards yuri but still a way to bring about some drama.

still hoping for a yuri resolution though :)

The fact is, the way the story is set up seems to indicate that if anyone's a good match for Keiko it's Ran. Nobody else seems nearly as compatible nor sensitive to her needs, nor indeed knows her so well. As for the other direction, for all her talk Ran seems uninterested in other relationships and as we saw at the group date actively pushes guys away.

So a yuri resolution doesn't only make sense from a fan's point of view, it seems the right choice from how the story has gone so far.

The fact is, the way the story is set up seems to indicate that if anyone's a good match for Keiko it's Ran. Nobody else seems nearly as compatible nor sensitive to her needs, nor indeed knows her so well. As for the other direction, for all her talk Ran seems uninterested in other relationships and as we saw at the group date actively pushes guys away.

So a yuri resolution doesn't only make sense from a fan's point of view, it seems the right choice from how the story has gone so far.

And then he trolls us all and ran gets a boyfriend....

The fact is, the way the story is set up seems to indicate that if anyone's a good match for Keiko it's Ran. Nobody else seems nearly as compatible nor sensitive to her needs, nor indeed knows her so well. As for the other direction, for all her talk Ran seems uninterested in other relationships and as we saw at the group date actively pushes guys away.

So a yuri resolution doesn't only make sense from a fan's point of view, it seems the right choice from how the story has gone so far.

And then he trolls us all and ran gets a boyfriend....

god please no

And then he trolls us all and ran gets a boyfriend....

And it's Keiko's ex.

And then he trolls us all and ran gets a boyfriend....

And it's Keiko's ex.

and keiko is forever alone

And then he trolls us all and ran gets a boyfriend....

And it's Keiko's ex.

and keiko is forever alone

reminds me of binbougami.