Time to break out that old Villainess survival strategy, Ada, the famed Bakarina Defense: if everyone, including the heroine, loves you by the end of the story, there won't be anyone left willing to kill you.

PS: Also, note the complete lack of parental concern about Satsuki being hospitalized. Akira's father is a massive asshole, but at least he'll go to jail: what Satsuki's dad is doing is far more insidious...

Nah, i think he was there but not for too long, he is a doctor and has showed that he values life as much as Satsuki so for him to not have gone to check on her its kind of contradictory

You may think that is the case, but since the current chapter has contained no indications that that may be the case, it will remain a pure speculation.

about this...
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/liar_satsuki_can_see_death_ch66#11
As far as I know, and I am not a phycisist, the argument between Einstein and Bohr (not Einstein and Schrodinger) was never truly resolved and was not about the quantum theory in general, but the theory of hidden parameters (God plays no dice and all that).

AFAIK the local hidden variables have been ruled out just recently by experiments based on Bell inequalities. Granted, superdeterminism was not, but that's kind of a dead end IMO, anyway.

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This boy has balls of adamantium.

Haro has been lucky enough to discover his purpose in life at a very young age. As he explains in chapter 3, his authentic self is an artist who captures moments of beauty on canvas, and as long as he can do that, social ostracism and ridicule just don't stick to him. It's a very spiritually enlightened state of mind that few people reach at his age.

Also, the episode with Nakamura shows that it's not so much physical nudity that sparks Haro's desire to paint as emotional authenticity. When Nakamura was pushing herself to stand in front of him naked, she was following the script her classmates handed to her ("man-eater bitch"), but the moment she has shown her true emotions, how much she was hurt by libel, Haro immediately recognized it, from just her face, no nudity involved (even if he did add it to his final painting of her, which I found kinda strange). Accordingly, we can infer from his reactions to Kamio that she is someone who is true to herself and perfectly comfortable in her own body at all times. I have known a few people like this IRL and they always have that feel like they are 100% there, whereas everyone else around them is at 50%, tops. Not sure if that makes sense.

Who was the class rep girl again? Her appearance was so sudden, that I, for a moment, thought that Satsuki is now a ghost, so nobody can see her.

The fact that Satsuki could walk onto Akira's hospital room and see an preminatory corpse is really scary...

Yeah, it took massive guts to look into that room. But as far as I can tell, there was no premonition there, right? If so, Akira is safe for at least another day...

We pray that Akira recovers

Word.

PS: Also, note the complete lack of parental concern about Satsuki being hospitalized. Akira's father is a massive asshole, but at least he'll go to jail: what Satsuki's dad is doing is far more insidious...

Top Kimura is so real I am going insane

The worst part? She learned all of the tricks from Hiyama herself...

Oof, Sad Dad Joe is sad. :-( My guess is that the reason he didn't want to leave Mitsuki behind was because her birth parents are either dead (and he didn't want to leave her in an orphanage or a foster home) or because he knew his sibling and their spouse are shitty parents (and wanted Mitsuki to at least have a good childhood).

looks like the crystal ball is going to be the inciting incident in getting the two of them to actually hold a conversation, or at least I hope.

"You cheater! You have no magic! I hate you!"
"Oh yeah? Well, you have no control and destroyed academy property! I hate you more!"

But in reality the shadow girl has simply destroyed the evidence of the villainess' fraud. ;-)

Why the hell does the ball even have a button that does such a thing, and in such an easy to find location?

The first part is because the school really like those donations from rich magicless parents; the second one is because children tend to forget things when they are worried or excited (case in point: it took the villainess several seconds to remember what her dad told her about the button), so the easier it is to find, the less chance of accidental discovery.

That felt like the first normal chapter in over a year.

Word. Felt really nostalgic, too, for the time when this manga was still the simple Baiser vs. Tres Magia vs. Horniness romp...

Can someone link me to that relationship chart of all the women Asumi has slept with? Especially since the start of Nanao's arc, I have lost track of who was who, including Sayaka. :-(

The scanlators group went the extra mile and brought us the uncensored version

They're doing Madoka's work, the way I see it.

So, when the two of them say "love", they actually mean "cosplay", right? >__>

Um . . . sure, yeah, that's it.

Whew, that's a relief. I was starting to suspect the manga wasn't as Wholesome as it looked, but your words and the latest chapter have reassured me. :-)

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I am disturbed by how much criminality went on this chapter. A couple talking out their insecurities without one of them fleeing the country first? A person gracefully bowing out of a love triangle because she has other people who love her? All of that is so illegal, I am calling the Yuri Police.

The extra about surviving the handshake actually endeared the clearly suspicious new girl to me.

She knows she is walking a very thin line with Rose and still does her job. If nothing else, such courage deserves respect.

So, when the two of them say "love", they actually mean "cosplay", right? >__>

Now, what kind of agent is Hibai, I wonder. Con artist, or an assassin like Rose? If it's the latter I fully expect the author to show off making them fight a 1-on-1 under the rain or something...

Another relevant question: Does she work for the government or for the church? Government is the obvious option, since it were they whose next move was foreshadowed in this chapter and since the church does not seem to employ a lot of women, but in the spirit of 4D mind game chess, all of that may have been a red herring...

I don't recall the church faction having any woman operatives, so I would bet against that

Yeah, that bit of speculation was pretty much dashed by page 171 in the latest chapter. The only possibility vaguely remaining is that Hibai is a double-agent for the church and the government -- honestly, with the spycraft shenanigans this series has indulged in so far, it wouldn't be entirely out of place...

Please tell me it's not another gauntlet, that would be 3 in a row. I just want some progression from MC at this point

We should be all realizing by now that this manga is actually a shounen adventure series, with each new arc focusing on the protagonist having to defeat have sex with the next Four Warlords of the Grand Line Four Indecent Queens in Waiting.

Sorry, Kanna-san, you may be very cool, but I'm still gonna have to call the yuri police on you.

You know, I gotta ask, what's the Yuri Police's mandate and jurisdiction?

Now, what kind of agent is Hibai, I wonder. Con artist, or an assassin like Rose? If it's the latter I fully expect the author to show off making them fight a 1-on-1 under the rain or something...

Another relevant question: Does she work for the government or for the church? Government is the obvious option, since it were they whose next move was foreshadowed in this chapter and since the church does not seem to employ a lot of women, but in the spirit of 4D mind game chess, all of that may have been a red herring...

According to the author's twitter, the series is skipping this month's issue of Yuri Hime and ending next chapter.

Welp, I hope the last chapter is a flash-forward to five years later where the girls are married and renovating the old house together. Because otherwise, the series will be extremely bleak, considering the overall emotional arc of it.

Well shit, this has escalated quickly. No matter what the author says, Akira is still Satsuki's future wife, as far as I am concerned, so I am happy Satsuki got to protecc her. There is no way they aren't both injured, and I am really hoping that will be enough evidence to finally put Akira's home abuser behind bars...

Being Ayaka is suffering: she has spent 2 days gathering the energy to finally punch through Hiroko's neutronium skull, but when it came time to fire, she was completely off mark and the problem came from a completely different direction...

It's fascinating to compare this series to Ayaka and Hiroko. Both are about a dysfunctional office relationship, but this pairing's dysfunction is so ridiculously over the top, it's so much easier to just lean back and to enjoy the slow-mo train wreck without feeling bad for the main character(s).

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Anyway, I guess this isn't how Shirafune expected his first meeting with his daughter's girlfriend to go.

He got what he wanted out of the meeting, though?

Even if she wrapped her hand in a very tough material, this just looks like ninjutsu lol

Kirika Yuumura is proud of her.

I am just wondering: if the bomb blew up inside the dome, shouldn't most of the glass shards been blown up and out of the building instead of raining straight down?

What goes up... Well, depends on how powerful the blast was as well. If it's enough to shatter the glass but not much more, everything will still come more or less straight down.

All I am saying is that maybe Rose should have tossed it up harder so it went through the glass and blew up outside the dome, then the shards would have flown faster. :-) Oh well, it's an action comedy, and movie physics don't really have to make sense...

I dunno, after this chapter, I would not call Ayaka's feelings for Hiroko "love" anymore. Admiration, projection, identification, desire to emulate, they can all feel like love but they are inherently unequal and romantic love usually needs to be equitable.

Really, I don't buy this. It sounds more like it comes from pleasant but semi-bogus self-help stuff than from real people. Real stuff is messy.

I am sorry I did not manage to get my point across -- I was stressed and didn't have the time to review my post, particularly the second sentence, so I ended up writing something trite. What I intended to convey was that Ayaka idolizes Hiroko because the latter represents what she wants to be professionally. At least, that is how her interest in her started out in the flashback. Ayaka has a deeply-seated insecurity about herself, presumably a anxiety about failure, and latches onto a person who she perceives as perfect, oblivious to the fact that she has only ever seen one of Hiroko's facets, her persona at work. She calls it love and even the manga's title says that, but romantic love in the way I have experienced it is rooted a desire to be with someone, not to be that someone (if your or anyone's experience has been different, I am sorry I cannot say much about it). My point is that Ayaka is chasing a false idol without seeing the shitty person behind it with whom she can actually fall in love.