Although the healthiness of the relationships, particularly early on and regarding the treatment and “generous” evaluation of actual consent are notably problematic from a realistic evaluation, I was largely able to look past it due to both standard suspension of disbelief, coupled with the overwhelming familiarity with the matter due to its prevalence in so many manga.

It's vampires, they're not going to ask nicely. Though of course the joke in this series is that Ichika takes as much advantage of it from her side.

I did want to know how she became a crow, but the rest of the chapter kinda made me forget.

Dear author,
please stop making me want senpai to be the endgame over Mai even in volume extras.

Signed, BeanBeanKingdom

@Zexalfan: It's really cute but don't expect too much, it's just in the first case of the second game.

Also, might as well call her Rei instead of Haori since she has an official English name.

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Reread the whole thing... damn now I sure feel like I left the entire story behind while reading on a monthly basis... what I don't understand now however is why they wanted to seal the sword somewhere else with Maoa's help? Wasn't the original shrine's barrier good enough? Or was it because any normal human could have been asked to take it out?

Yes, once the location had been discovered by the Ghika, they would've had little trouble sending someone to retrieve it and even if Aria's group stayed to prevent it, Ichika would've been targeted as it actually happened.

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I think this is the last chapter of volume 6 so I guess the author didn't want to change tone right at the end.

I think it's because they lost their memories

I'm not sure that's the case. I remember Shadi/Yanyan's flashback from a while ago where she had been stabbed and Khara found her, I always assumed Khara had to turn her into a crow to somehow save her, but now it's looking like they parted at some point when Shadi was still human and she turned into a crow later in order to follow her while keeping her identity and "wrong" feelings secret. It would be strange if Khara lost just the memories about Shadi being Yanyan considering she seems to remember everything from both before and after with no issues.

Great chapter, though I would never have thought that Khara didn't know Yanyan was the girl she saved back then. Looks like she's getting her own love interest then.

What is the implication on Page 19? "That would mean..." That would mean what? That Shiho realizing Aki has already given up on dating Yori? She knows Aki has not made a move, would the realization that Aki has officially given up really make a difference here? Does she still have strong feelings for Aki and therefore upset that Yori has hurt Aki?

I assume so, I think she considers Yori the one who's taken everyone away and her bet involving Himari is her way of taking someone away from Yori.

Idk why everyone is simping Mc so much, to me she just kind of annoying character. Beside I feel like she become their manager either way if they win or not.

Shiho's condition is that Himari has to become her band's manager, not of Aki's. I wouldn't have expected that to happen otherwise.

Wew, lad.

And look how quickly Serina made some people forgive the bait-and-switch in the previous chapter, heh.

^I guess that could also be why- maybe he would be into girls as a girl himself but not as a guy? I didnt consider that.

Again, I direct you all to consider the most familiar explanation given the author. Masaki from Sasameki Koto was in love with Sumika but since he was delicate and liked crossdressing and she was a tough and tall karate practitioner, he saw her as the "guy" in their hypothetical relationship and himself as the "girl", with this only applying to their superficial behaviour, not their deeper mental state. Not saying it has to be the same case here, but I think there's a fair chance it'll turn out to be something similar rather than going into more complex territory that would start having to require a lot of attention and potentially take away from the main premise and characters.

That's the simplest assumption given his reaction, and he likely wants advice from her on crossdressing. Remember that one of the main recurring characters in Sasameki Koto was a crossdressing guy so there's author appeal there.

Uh, better move a couple towns away after that blunder.

Just wanted to point out that the artist made a more detailed version of this: https://twitter.com/mmnummn/status/1419215056013643776

Whoops, guess the reread is in order for me then, lol. She is new then, and Shiho's taking it out on Aki as a substitute.

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I see no reason to give her a sob story to excuse her current personality, this felt in line with how she's been presented so far. It's not like she's in the right, I don't see this ending with her winning since, you know, one of the main protagonists is on the opposite team. She's going to have to finally learn it's okay not to be the number one.

Is that blonde violin girl new? I'm having an increasingly harder time distinguishing between characters in this...

She's Aki, Yori's bandmate. The little sister she mentions in the flashback is Miki, Himari's childhood friend. Maybe you should give a quick skim to previous chapters as a refresher.

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Flashbacks to the guy Akko from Girl Friends almost had a one-night stand with.

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Don't know if it's just Aria who is only vulnerable to the sacred sword when wielded by Ichika's bloodline, but I assume the others are also at least only vulnerable to typical vampire-killing methods like holy water, silver bullets and cutting off their heads, none of which happened here.

It very much feels like the final arc.

I'm not so sure about that, feels like there's still a lot of ground to cover with Aria. We only just got the first real mention of her relationship with Ghika and we know nothing of its current head. Provided the author actually intends for that conflict to be resolved, I doubt it will be as simple as Aria's gang traveling to the Ghika headquarters and laying waste to it or the Ghika coming to Aria themselves. Not to mention this is a series that's always skewed heavily towards comedy so I expect the tone to shift again to the more lighthearted side for at least a bit.

Manipulated Ichika looks cool, she should be like that more often. Maybe without an immortal-killing sword in her hand.

I assume from now on they'll have to deal with Ghika proper so I hope there's still a while before the end, I want to see plenty of cute stuff between Aria and Ichika as a couple.

I'm sure the author herself made stuff like this for her personal enjoyment.

Also betting on him being a fan of her work, he's embarassed since it's yaoi.

The simulation broke for a second.

The bad guy isn't even around right now, it's just some random henchman.