So the guy's definitely gay, right?

My hypothesis, by the way he greets Hiyama and how Hiyama says Kimura isn't on his radar, is that Mizushima is into Hiyama to make a true love triangle (H > K > M > H) and Hiyama knows, maybe due to a confession before the story started.

There's no way they're introducing a new love interest for Ari right?

Doubt it will be a love interest, but god knows I would love to see someone that helps her move on.

^ This. Ari is in an ok place, as far as things go, but having someone new to be with, even if just platonically, will always be a help.

Oh no, I don’t see how trying to butter up the princely girl is going to end well. I feel like Lan Sha is gonna get jealous and it’s gonna be a messy love triangle. I’m so worried that prince girl will end up being super possessive of her or something

While it could be messy if the cards aren't played right, and lines cross and messages mix, swaying Luo Yuan to her side from the prince's would be a benefit.

Huh, a story set in today (at least pre-pandemic seemingly). It has ace and aro characters, smartphones (although this has been increasing in mangas recently, I've seen flip phones in some mangas), Japan's declining birth rate, women on bikes just being chill, a sexually active kid (although a little too exhibitionist to be realistic). I really like this.

Idk how a modern kid not being conservative about making out in public is "too exhibitionist to be realistic".

Oh my. Is it an actual triangle? Is there a twist coming that the guy likes the blonde?

Oho! It's reciprocated!

Chapter 29 be like...
One flesh, one bone, one true religion
One voice, one hope, one real decision
Give me one light, yeah
Give me one hope, hey
Just give me, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
FRIED CHICKEN!

... That is so oddly and specifically super fitting to the scenario, and I love it.

And for anyone wondering, yes, these are real lyrics to the Queen song One Vision.

More possible evidence to the mom maybe knowing, chapter 1 page 17, after Saki says how beautiful the random stranger she saw was and beaming while retelling the scene, mom silently smiles with a "hmm".

@Kurookami not lick hand, laughing behind hand, because the totem eating the bird was funny

ah..... the owls from the author's other series made a cameo..... ;-;

T_T

Do I want to know the context? Is it going to make me sad?

Also, where are these owls? I swear I've scanned through every page at least 3 times. Do I just have bad eyesight?

I think they're referring to the kid's bag

It's been a while, are those white triangle things under Umika's ears fancy earrings?

So he's a brocon. Great.

We already knew that, but now he's been found to be a fucking yandere as well.

... that's mildly depressing.

IDK if it'll be relevant, but Kaimori's hairclip in the flashback (forward?) is the letter A, but the current one we are seeing has the hairclip as a letter B

Lol, I'm loving these debates in the comments "are they the same person or not" when the answer is obviously both. At one point, they were one, then they weren't. It's selfcest and it's poly.

Essay time: If you make two items, and in this hypothetical you can make them perfectly identical down to the exact amount of atoms and energy stored in them, are they the same item? If your answer is "no" because they are different by being two items and not one, let me say that you don't have the same atoms you did 10 years ago but that was distinctly you, correct? (Hello, Ship Of Theseus)

If you say yes, I'll tell you no because there is two of them, and by existing in separate spots in space they receive and experience different energy loads via temperature and kinetic energy impartation and from the very start of their existences they had already diverged even if they were created at literally the same time.

They are the same person, by argument that they shared a common history but now one is different because of the nature of change over time, yet they are also distinct people because they are together but not literally the same object occupying one spot in space and experiencing the exact same thing.

But shouldnt prez actually realize that whatever he does will also be in "vain", just as what he feels like MC is doing? I mean, he has no further information than satsuki and can only (well maybe) see what would happen, if he... yeah, thats an intersting question actually, since whatever information is sent to the past causes problems, and I doubt the author will be able to come up with a good excuse. Either way, it doesnt matter what is, but what prez feels like. And since he assumes his ability to be identical, there really should be no gain from recruiting MC. I think he plots something else. Or he is actually lying about having this ability, but knows from someone in the past, that had the same, how to abuse it.

That's a good point, the "in vain" part. The victims are already victims, he isn't saving anyone, just "punishing" the "criminals".

I'm disliking bro-con prince more and more.

to much male, drop.

Newsflash, ~50% of people have Y chromosome. None of them in this story are romance targets. This is a weak excuse for a drop.

Leaning closer into my hypothesis about the machine trying to get her to admit her feelings. Maybe, just maybe, it's even a plot set up by Mizuki.

GLORIOUS XMAS PRESENT! Thank you, WSS, for this wonderful feast.

Hypothesis: The machine knows their subconscious thoughts and won't let them out of the system until they confess.
Conjecture: The two "fairies" making out is the system's way to tell them subtly.

Man, it's been too long, and I think I'm starting to develop fatigue with manga where I can't recall things, can anyone point me to the relevant senpai chapters?

Well, that answers how the machine knew how to make the "fairies" look like them.

.... These guys are suspicious as fuck...

This extra reminds me, we never got the pay-off of Tundra being revealed to her team-mates. Drat.