I just woke up and my thoughts are all over the place, excuse my lack of cohesion.
The story relies pretty heavily on showing scenes that the POV character comments on offhandedly, the dialogue seems sparse but it's exactly that sparseness (or rather, lack of explicit detail) that makes this so interesting to read. It's much more like a film than it is a light novel, the panels speak much more than the text. Seeing how the past 3 chapters all link together is wonderful, in a way it makes the story suffer from these sporadic translation updates, not that that's anyone's fault ofc! (I need to learn how to read Japanese so I can gobble up the raws...) I also especially love how cognizant and intuitive the characters here are, but not to where it's crime show drama detective level. They can all sense something's wrong or off, and they have an implicit sense of what exactly it is, but what's especially nice is the realism in their interactions, not everyone can be as direct and straightforward as Kurokawa and Fujishiro in Useless Princesses. Seeing You, who has generally always maintained this gap between her real, selfish, rude and cynical nsture and her outward agreeable yet shallow persona, suddenly realize she's become more invested in someone who is much more honest and direct than she is (the mere fact Hana cries a lot in front of her) all due to Hana throwing out more of her personal info/backstory so casually... I wonder if You feels like she should do the same and share her familial situation with Hana, and in a broader sense, become more honest with s o m e o n e rather than keeping this distance from everyone. Character development is great, I can't wait to see how You/Hana will resolve this.
