I shouldn't have read all 51 chapters in one go, now I am suffering. But here are my hot takes because I can't focus on studying unless I talk about them:
(bUNCH OF SPOILERS AHEAD BUT YOU SHOULD ALREADY KNOW THAT!!!!!)
1.I really hope Satsuki opens up with someone about her mother's death and why she refuses to just ignore her premonitions soon. She has an extremely good reason to value all life indiscriminately and save it at all costs.
As her biggest ally, Akira would probably understand, despite the disagreement they had.
Given the flashback(s)*:
She saw her mom die in front of her eyes. She lost someone important, she doesn't want anyone to go through that if she can stop it. Is her delivery terrible? Yes, homegirl is socially inept.
*https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/liar_satsuki_can_see_death_ch04#18 (glimpse of her seeing a premonition or the fact itself)
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/liar_satsuki_can_see_death_ch08#6 (creepy version of what probably happened, with her mom pleading and asking her why she didn't do anything if she knew)
I am too lazy to try finding others.
2.There is something wrong with Komako. Really wrong.
I think right now there are two antagonists, in a way. Student Council duo is the obvious one, and Komako... I don't think she is Satsuki's ally at all. But also I doubt she's involved with the Prez serial killing, despite being secretary. Whatever is up with her will probably be explored after the StudCo arc is kinda solved. She's an antagonist-in-the-making, I guess.
However, I don't think what was said on Chapter 1, with future Satsuki's commentary ending with "Komachi Komako should have died", meant that Komako is somehow directly involved with all the premonitions, most likely Satsuki at some point in the future will realize that her preventing the deaths causes a chain reaction. The phrase prior to that is proof:
(...) what I did then might have broken the perfectly fitting gears of fate. That small distortional spreads little by little, until it all starts falling out of place.
Why does it only attract more death? The president himself commented that ever since she enrolled the corpses have been showing up a lot, so her not letting fate follow the "natural" course of things is exacerbating the fatalities around her.
Someone has to die. Despite her not letting them die, that undeniable truth is still there. Maybe it spreads and makes other people victims, but the initial victims that didn't pass away the first time are still somehow pushed towards this fate. Without the villain president in the picture, Komako and Sae's second "deaths" only prove that something stronger — natural order of the universe? Don't know how to call it — is screaming, saying that they have to die, and most likely what will happen will be like a dam imploding: what was keeping all of the water from falling, the moment it breaks will cause it all to leak in one go.
(worst case scenario tho)
When she says that by doing what felt right that day would cause the worst to come, it makes me think something like that awaits.
I never read the other work by this author, but by what you guys are saying, page 3 of the first chapter can be a glimpse at the future.
Whatever supernatural force is "controlling" this, it wants people to die in this school (student body and staff alike). Be them good or evil. Satsuki going against it is tempering with something... (Even stopping the murder attempts is tempering with things beyond her power. "Fate" said that these people would die by the hands of serial killer Prez, the moment the dude decided to kill, it was determined they would die. Him seeing the future or not only adds for an interesting opposing force to Satsuki's forensics, but if he were just a regular murderer... Deaths were still "meant to be".)
I don't know how the possible death on ch. 51 will change this. Maybe that's why the next chapters are said to be a bit calmer. As if this threat was tamed a bit the moment one of the deaths could not be stopped.
(I still hope the girl survives tho. And gets therapy.)
3.Kai is the prefect antithesis for Satsuki's code because he doesn't use his power to prevent stuff, he turned to killing and uses it in his favor to propagate his f—d up morals, and probably started seeing the deaths as inevitable, not worth feeling pity for whoever died, be them good or bad. Probably seeing death as inevitable led him to the twisted perception that death with a justification is OK. Something like "if everyone dies some day, getting rid of evil people is actually good, because it's not like they never would, and with this any harm they cause can be stopped".
When he comments on Sensei's death and him not preventing it despite the victim being a good person just makes it clear that he's turned cynical about death.
Perfect villain, still want him to get beat up or flat-out exposed. He's a serial killer, for god's sake.
I don't think he will get exposed since he covered it up at middle school, so I will settle for him getting his ass whooped.
last edited at Aug 16, 2022 5:53PM
