this might be reading into it a little too much, but the fact that Tokiko apologized to her sister for not being able to mourn the others, and how she seemed genuinely excited to start learning how to cook. And how when she found that her sister hanged herself she reacted with actual surprise in a way rather unlike she has up until now makes me hope that next chapter we'll be getting a Tokiko who is just a little uncharacteristically rattled.
also the extra page having Tokiko stand there in front of an obviously overcooked pot has equal part humor and tragedy in it, because missing her would be teacher that is just the best she's going to be able to do.
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