Someone else mentioned this, but as I’ve read the following chapters, I’m inclined to believe Niji is secretly recording all of her conversations with Remu, or just whenever Remu is talking in general, and constantly plays them back to herself. I think the cover for the latest chapter, which depicts Niji caressing Remu while holding her phone behind her back, further supports this.
The consistent focus on her phone is already a major hint, but this panel from Chapter 2 I think is a strong piece of evidence.
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/our_love_is_disgusting_ch02#14
Upon hearing of Remu’s interest in her co-worker, there’s an intense focus on Niji tapping away on her phone, to which she later asks Remu to continue telling her about this person. When you reread this after reading the following chapters, It really seems like she’s collecting information on this girl and what Remu thinks of her in general.
This is no doubt her or at the very least related “hidden fetish” which she was heavily implied to have along with our other MCs
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/our_love_is_disgusting_ch01#2
There’s another ominous panel, where Niji immediately concludes that Remu's coworker is 23.
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/our_love_is_disgusting_ch03#8
This is a little more speculative, but I surmise that Niji correctly “guessed” Azuki’s age upon hearing Remu vaguely liken her age to her step-sister, who also happens to be 23. I think this can be taken as another hint to her encyclopedic and maybe even off-putting knowledge of Remu and everything related to her.
In that same chapter, we have this off-putting line by Niji.
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/our_love_is_disgusting_ch03#13
Clearly, Niji is shocked when Remu responds in a way she wasn’t anticipating, deeming it as “wrong.”
Something similar comes up again a chapter later
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/our_love_is_disgusting_ch04#19
Not only was she disappointed in Remu not joining her, she clearly expected her to follow suit, once again deeming it as “the wrong line.”
People have theorized that there’s a specific script that Niji wants Remu to follow that matches up with her expectations. This is clearly indicative of possessive behavior, but I also think it’s a bit more than that.
I bring up this panel from Chapter 5, where Niji claims that this isn’t the first time Remi has ordered a 10 scoop ice cream bowl, with ominous framing.
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/our_love_is_disgusting_ch05#20
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/our_love_is_disgusting_ch05#21
People have interpreted this as a Niji gaslighting Remu, but I don’t think that’s the case. If you look at page 20, there’s once again a focus on Niji’s phone on a side panel to the left, right before she says that Remu has indeed ordered that before.
Therefore, with everything else taken into account, I believe Niji has been secretly recording conversations with Remu, constantly playing them back to herself and gaining an eerily encyclopedic knowledge of Remu, to the point of being able to recount things that Niji herself does not remember.
When Remu responds in a way that doesn’t match Niji’s expectations, she’s clearly startled because according to her encyclopedic knowledge of Remu, she “shouldn't” have responded that way, since it contradicts everything she thinks she knows about Remu.
Whether or not this obsession with Remu is born out of love, infatuation, or some other thing, is still blurry. People have brought up that she may be acting as a sort of possessive mother towards Remu, seeing how she’s often referred to as “Niji-mama” by their friends, wanting to preserve her “innocence”. But either way, it’s definitely some fetish directly related to or involving Remu.
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