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xoxo-teddybear · 3 years

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Chaotic Family Tingz - Bakugou Katsuki

Bakugou x f!reader ft. Older brother L/N Ryu and Younger brother L/N Itazura

Warnings: Cursing, Crack, Fluff, Tatted Bakugou bc ✨SPICE✨

Summary: You have a very….special family. You were nervous to not only bring your Tatted, motorcycle riding boyfriend to your home but also to show your very loving boyfriend your insane family. Unfortunately, the truth cannot be hidden for long. Unfortunately for your boyfriend, Bakugou, he learned the truth in a very L/N family way.

BAKUGOU’S MASTERLIST

A/N: Heavily inspired by Good Luck Charlie. ALSO, I wrote this more based around Y/N and her life but Katsuki plays part in it. I still think it’s good bc imagine Bakugou being in this situation 😆🤣

You and Bakugou Katsuki have been dating for a year. You fell in love with the Bakugou Katsuki.

He who had a sleeve full of tattoos, who wore black combat boots and chains, who rode slick black motorcycles yet was a total softie when it came to you

Even though you had been dating for over a year, you didn’t bring him home for multiple reasons

1. You wanted to be sure he was the one before he met your crazy family, 2. You didn’t want him to meet your crazy family

Notice how we keep saying crazy?

Eventually, Bakugou got tired of waiting. He wanted you to be comfortable but he also wanted to know you loved him enough to think he was the guy you would want to bring home to meet your family

Meeting the parents and meeting the family is a big step and shows that you really want him as part of your life. It would mean a whole lot to him

And when he requested to meet your family and you shut it down again, he began to question you

“Do you not want me to meet them because…of me? Do you not want them to meet me?”

You looked at your boyfriend with a sad look as he stared at you like a kicked puppy

“Baby, no. Of course I want my family to meet you.”

“Then why haven’t they?”

“….Because I don’t want you to meet them.”

“What?”

“Suki! They’re insane! I’m just- *sigh.* What if their craziness drives you away from me?”

Bakugou laughed at you in disbelief. Leave you? Like hell he would. Bakugou’s done a whole lot in his life and you are the one thing he got right.

“Yeah no. Sorry princess but you’re stuck with me for life. I’m not going anywhere.” When he said that, he kissed your knuckles before leaving a kiss on your lips which convinced you to let him meet your insane family

He celebrated right in front of you

Anyway, what you need to know is that you’re family is….crazy crazy. Crazy as in things are never boring in your house because things are always happening

(Mind you, the actions below happened before you said yes to letting Katsuki meet your family)

Now back to what we were saying

Bad things happen a lot. Things like your little 11 year old brother, Itazura, always getting into trouble at school. In fact, this time he got into so much trouble that his teacher called for a parent teacher meeting

Not wanting to get in trouble at home, Itazura had you and your brother pretend to be his parents and go to the meeting

Now you said no in the beginning, but he blackmailed you by threatening to tell your parents you broke their priceless-antique wedding china and so you had to give in

It didn’t take much convincing for your older brother, Ryu, to join in on Itazura’s plan. Ryu was a very….simple person.

“You’re just gonna give in like that?” You asked him

“I mean, in the end it just saves time.” He said, referring to how Itazura will always find a way to get what he wants

“Yeah, that’s fair.”

And so, you and Ryu posed as Itazura’s parents. You dressed in your mom’s work clothes while Ryu dressed in a suit and put on a fake mustache for gags

You both presented yourselves along with Itazura to his teacher, who can barely see straight, and the plan went on perfectly. You guys got away with it!

That was until Itazura’s teacher, who was named Mrs. Iko, saw you at the movies on a date with Katsuki

And this is where it all goes down. Take a seat my bitches, and bros, and non-binary hoes cuz shits about to get real

(Shoutout to you if you get the reference ;)

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*Ding Dong*

Your brother was sitting on the couch with his boyfriend when all of a sudden the doorbell rang, catching Ryu’s attention.

Opening the door, Ryu was met with the sight of Mrs. Iko. She took notice of his younger clothes, appearance, and mustache-less face. “Mrs. Iko? What’re you doing here?”

“Mr. L/N!” Mrs. Iko said with a shocked face and hand over her mouth. “You look so much younger! And your mustache has disappeared!”

Ryu grew visibly nervous at her words and gulped before letting out a shaky laugh. “O-Oh! Right! Yes, Uh- yes I’ve always been known for my Uh- youthful looks! And I just recently shaved- wanted a new look, you know?”

“Oh, well that doesn’t matter. I’m afraid I have some awful news.” Mrs. Iko said with a worried face as Ryu listened. “It’s about your wife.”

At that, Ryu’s longtime boyfriend, Daisuke, stood and walked towards the two. “Your wife? You have a wife?”

“No.” Ryu said.

“You don’t?” Mrs. Iko asked.

“Of course I do!” Ryu said, turning to her. Mrs. Iko looked around as if everyone in the house was crazy (they were) before speaking.

“Who are you?” She asked Daisuke.

“I’m his boyfriend.” He said. At that moment, you walked into the house holding Katsuki’s hand, ready to introduce him to your family, totally unprepared for what was about to go down.

“Hey guys! We’re back from the- GAH!” You said, yelping once you saw Mrs. Iko in the house. Mrs. Iko looked at you and Katsuki in shock as she pointed to you both.

“And here she is with her boyfriend!” Mrs. Iko exclaimed. Ryu felt pressured to play along and tried to save Itazura’s secret by keeping the husband act going.

“You’re cheating on me?!” Ryu said to you. “You’re a married woman!”

“You’re married?!” Bakugou asked you with an angry and hurt voice.

“No! No, no, no, no.” You said with a nervous laugh, trying to reassure him.

“You’re not?” Mrs. Iko asked.

“Of course I am!” You said, snapping your head to her. At that moment, Itazura walked in from the kitchen, but once he saw Mrs. Iko, he quickly turned back to go to the kitchen once more with a shocked expression.

“Geeeh!” He exclaimed before turning around, unfortunately caught by you.

“Uh- ITAZURA!” You shouted from the door as Bakugou held you close by the waist as a way of claiming his territory just in case things were in trouble for the two of you. Don’t worry, they weren’t. He believed you when you said you weren’t married but he’s starting to notice the weird shit that goes down in this house.

Itazura then came back, slowly poking his head in from behind the door as he stepped out. “Yes, Mother?”

Hearing you referred to that, Bakugou’s eyes popped before looking down at you. “Okay! I’m starting to see why you didn’t want me to meet your family.”

You nodded your head in a very ‘yeah…sadly,’ type of way.

“Uh- Itazura,” you said, walking towards your little brother. “Mrs. Iko has found out that your father and I are having problems.” You said in a ‘help us out of this you evil mastermind,’ type of way.

“Uhhh..and does she know that you guys are the reason I misbehave?” Itazura said, loud enough for Mrs. Iko to hear, hoping she would.

“Oh, I do now!” Mrs. Iko said sympathetically. Itazura came in like the evil mastermind he is and pulled out his fake tears.

“Well, maybe some good can come from all this pain,” he said with his fake tears and pouty lip towards his teacher. You faked a laugh before whispering to your younger brother.

“Hehehe…dial it down.” You said to him before turning to his teacher. “Um, Mrs. Iko, if you’ll excuse us, this family has some healing to do.”

“Which! I would like to do with just my parents and their apparent significant others,” Itazura said pointing to Daisuke and Katsuki.

“Welp! You should be on your way! Stay warm now!” Ryu said, beginning to escort Mrs. Iko out the front door by her shoulders. “Don’t wanna freeze off your toes!”

Unfortunately, right before the two reached the door, your actual parents came in. At the sight of them, you and your siblings flinched, sighed, and groaned before facing them. Luckily, Itazura came in once again to try and save the day in his lying ways.

“Grandma! Grandpa!” Itazura said going in to hug his actual parents to play his part. Your parents looked down to your brother in confusion and suspicion, well aware that your brother can get into some mischievous trouble.

“What’s going on?!” Your mom said, shaking off your brother’s hug.

“I’m Itazura’s teacher, I came to talk to his parents.” Mrs. Iko said introducing herself and gesturing to you and Ryu, to which the two of you scrunched your faces at being caught.

“We’re his parents.” Your dad said, gesturing to your mom and him. Mrs. Iko grew a face of utter shock before Itazura opened his mouth again.

“Hahaha, that’s right grandpa! You’re my dad!” Itazura said before whispering to Mrs. Iko. “He thinks he’s the president too.”

Your mom looked unimpressed at your brother’s lie until she caught sight of Bakugou in his white v-neck tee, and his big beefy arms covered in tattoos, holding his green bomber jacket, wearing his black ripped jeans and black combat boots. “Who are you?”

“Hey, I’m Bakugou Katsuki.” Your boyfriend said, waving with his gentler voice. Your dad looked outside and pointed to the foreign vehicle in their driveway before turning to Katsuki.

“Is that your motorcycle?” Your dad asked, making you nervous before you jumped to stand next to Katsuki to defend him.

“Um, yeah, about that-“

“I love motorcycles!” Your dad exclaimed with a smile.

“We’re dating!” You proudly said with a bright grin as you wrapped your arms around Katsuki’s as he looked down to you with a loving smile, loving when he heard you say those words to other people.

“Will you stop throwing that in my face?!” Ryu said, still playing his act.

“We’re not doing that anymore.” You blankly said to him with a dead stare.

“Great! Because I was getting a bit confused,” Ryu said and wrapped his arm around Daisuke’s waist.

And on that night, Mrs. Iko left, just as confused as Ryu.

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“Alright,” your mom began, beginning to speak to you, your siblings, Daisuke, and Katsuki. “You, you, you, you, and you, sit. Now.”

“Uh, sorry,” your boyfriend said, “but I’m not your child. I don’t think you can tell me what to-“

“Did. I. Stutter?” Your mother asked with her devil eyes. Your gentler father stood behind her with a pleading look to your boyfriend to try and convince him to save himself. Katsuki felt his heart shake in fear at your mother’s tone and he opened his mouth to speak before closing it and taking a seat next to you on the couch.

“Mama Bear?” He asked you, referring to your mother.

“Mama Bear.” You confirmed. Bakugou nodded his head before relaxing into the couch.

“Okay. Now somebody tell me what’s going on.” Your mom demanded. You and Ryu remained quiet while your boyfriends sat in confusion. You all looked to Itazura who sighed before giving in.

“Okay, fine. I was getting in trouble at school and it got to the point where I had to have a parent teacher meeting. I didn’t want to get in trouble at home so I blackmailed Y/N and Ryu into being my parents so I could get away with it.” Itazura then explained.

“I guess somewhere along the line, Mrs. Iko caught me and Katsuki together so I guess she came here to tell Ryu, who she thought was my husband, that I was having an affair.” You then explained. Ryu was just sitting on the couch with his arm still around Daisuke before he raised his hand.

Your mother sighed at her oldest child being so..childish. “Yes, Ryu?”

“Uh- no I was just wondering if I could put on the fake mustache again.” He stupidly said with a genuine heart. You and your younger brother sighed in disappointment at his idiocy before turning to your parents.

“So? Are you going to punish us?” You asked your mom. She smiled at you sweetly before taking a seat in front of you on the coffee table.

“Oh, sweetie…..of course we’re going to punish you.” She said while placing a hand on your knee. She then stood to hand out her dealings. “Itazura, no video games, no sleepovers, no tv. Ryu, Y/N - no phones, no tv, no going anywhere after school. All of you, grounded. 2 weeks. We’re letting you keep your laptops for school work so if you need to communicate, use those. Am I clear?”

You and your siblings all nodded before your mother sighed and addressed the last thing. “Now finally, what did you say your name was, sweetie?”

“Oh! Uh, Bakugou Katsuki.” Your boyfriend said. Your mother smiled at him kindly before dropping that smile and giving him a look.

“Age?”

“18.”

“Grades?”

“Straight A’s.”

“School?”

“U.A.”

“Tattoos and Piercings. Why?”

“Most of them are to honor the people in my life.”

“Motorcycle. Why?”

“It was a gift I decided to not let go to waste.”

“Are you an asshole?”

“Only to idiots.”

“Why my daughter?”

“Because when she smiles everything in the world instantly makes sense to me.”

His last answer made you smile at him in awe as you scooted in closer. It also made your parents smile before your mom reached over to place a hand on his arm. “Welcome to the family, Bakugou.”

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“So that’s your family, huh?” Bakugou asked as you both sat in your backyard on the hammock looking at the starry sky.

“Heh, yeah. A bunch of clowns.” You said, resting your head on his shoulder as his arm held you close.

“I don’t think so. They seem fun.” Bakugou said, trying to uplift your spirits.

“Fun. Crazy. Same shit I guess.” You said causing you both to laugh. Katsuki sighed in gratitude at finally getting to meet your family and allowed his head to drop on your own. “Umm..you’re not gonna leave me though..right?”

“Never.” He said with a small laugh and kiss to the crown of your head. “Like I said, you’re stuck with me. Besides. I now know if I’m ever bored, your family will always be around. S’like free entertainment.” He said making you giggle. “Plus, Itazura doesn’t seem so bad. I don’t know, might wanna pull a few pranks on him just to teach him a lesson.”

“Aww, baby.” You said kissing his cheek. “No you don’t, it’ll backfire on you and he’ll set your ass on fire. Doesn’t matter if you’re 5 years older than him.”

Bakugou widened his eyes in offense before chuckling and cuddling in closer as you both swung on the hammock. That was when you raised your head to look at him. “So…when can I meet your parents?”

Bakugou’s eyes once again popped as he thought about his timid father who was a doormat to his demonic mother. “Uh…I don’t know..They’re kinda…insane.”

Here we go again.

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fiveisnumber1 · 4 years

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I love the idea of the Hidden Seven throwing a party at the mansion instead of taking Five along for his first college party. I think it would be very considerate of them since he probably would not like so much social interaction at once so the familiar environment and the fact he can kick everyone out the minute he's uncomfortable would give him some semblance of control over the situation. I'm imagining the Hidden Seven in a huddle, maybe while Reader and Five are on a date, and deciding this among themselves cuz they care about him and they've been to High School parties but college parties are on another level and Five has never been to ANY party. He's part of their little group now too so they take care of him in the little ways.

Additionally, as part of the "how to summon the H7", Five discovers eventually that it's not just memes that grab their attention but if he dares say anything slightly self-loathing about himself or says he's hungry/refers to his past trauma of any type, he can summon them as fast as if they have his power too, Usually along with a Hargreeve, notably Allison and Vanya as well. (there's a tumblr chat post used for fandom characters for this exact scenario or I'd type it out but I just can't remember it exactly rn D:)

Also would Five participate on the Hidden Seven's missions as well when not trapped by Big Bad Evil Guys? I can see him mostly taking a backseat with the fighting, acting as a distraction more than anything else but definitely getting used to the H7s antics and participating in these menial conversations unless he's in an agitated mood in which case he takes a more hands on approach as well.

Five (flashing in front of a robber so he doesn't realize Dean is about to shoot him in the back): Can we PLEASE go get a decent cup of coffee after this. I've been in class since 8 AM and now this?

Addison: Do you ever stop thinking about coffee? Sonata and I brought you some on our way to class! We thought it would tide you over til 3 at least!

Reader (melting someone's brains): He spilled half when someone bumped into his desk. I had to keep him from committing murder. Our Physics professor was not amused.

*Five kills someone in his peripheral with nothing but a paper weight*

Lucas (throws a guy against a wall): Ohh so that's why he's so murdery today... Normally he just distracts people for us.

Bren (using his whips to hold someone in place): Is that also why you asked to borrow my extra shirt?

Everyone looks and Five is indeed wearing one of Bren's usual shirts.

Kenny (punching the guy being held in place) : Hey! I offered too!

Bren: Yeah but none of us would be caught dead in your clothes after you bought your neon atrocity.

Kenny (gasps): You take that back! My jacket is the height of fashion!

Five (doing his stapler trick): Cool stapler, my guy. *kills him* Anyway can we get back to the point. COFFEE! I can't take Professor Snotty's class without it or I won't need paradox psychosis to feel homicidal rage... (flashes to reader's side) Hey, mon amour, need some assist? *holds guy in place so reader can do her thing*

Viktoria (pauses bad viola playing to say over the sound system): You call a Professor as Snotty?

Reader (taking her time with the destruction of the bad guy): His names Snitty so it's not any better. The entire phys-chem departments calls him that.

Kenny: I would like to meet this professor Snotty.

Reader and Five pause and consider it... The bad guy tries to sneak away.

Dean: Anyway so... Coffee after this? I have like 2 hours before my next class (impales sneaking away bad guy with an arrow) and I really don't wanna do my homework.

Kenny: Ooh! I want a unicorn milkshake!

Lucas (roughing up a bad guy): That sweetened monstrosity? Really?

Bren (slashing a guy): I am NOT babysitting Necrotic if he gets a unicorn milkshake. He's all yours.

Meanwhile, the bad guys are all dead and the H8 then go and get their well earned smoothies, milkshakes and coffees.

(Sorry for the long message, I almost sent three asks with all three topics separately but then combined them into one for ease after I caught up on the discussion this morning xD do you think it's all accurate to your vision?)

Oh yeah, they definitely take his lack of party experience into consideration. Giving him as much control as possible will make it such a better time for him. I think when the party actually occurs at first Five is a little hesitant just because it’s a lot of people he’s never met and it’s a new experience but which a couple of shots that Kenny definitely offered him he starts to loosen up and enjoy himself more. He would absolutely be by the readers side the whole time tipsily telling her about all the stuff he admires about her and pulling her on to the dance floor with him the more comfortable he gets. He would be having a hell of a time and would totally tell his siblings to leave if they showed up early.

Because of how much they care for Five if he ever said something negative about himself you would hear a chorus of “Nooooooo!” coming from across the house as all the rest of them ran from different directions to get to him. They’d immediately go into helping mode because even though they themselves would say similar things because they’re Gen Z so of course they wouldn’t want their friend to feel upset.

And yes, Five would definitely join them to fight criminals because it’s a very casual bonding activity for all of them. They just get notifications about stuff that is going down and they will all collectively drop what they’re doing and go there because it’s probably better than whatever they were doing before. And to the bad guys it is so infuriating that not only that they’re being beat by such young people but that they won’t even focus on the fight. They’re just that good together. Also:

Five: (spatial jumping around aggressively taking out people)

Kenny: (knocking someone out) Jeez he’s aggressive today. What happened?

Reader: (Throwing knives at some guys) Oh our physics professor was just well snotty today, as always.

Five: (snapping a criminal’s neck) JUST SNOTTY? HE WAS A FULL ON ASSHOLE. HE SAID SHE WAS WRONG WHEN SHE HAD THE RIGHT ANSWER AND WHEN I SAID THE ANSWER HE SAID I WAS RIGHT.

Viktoria: (making some criminals ears bleed) Oh god...is your professor still alive?

Reader: Yes

Five: UNFORTUNATELY. SOMEONE DECIDED TO STOP ME FROM PUTTING HIM IN HIS PLACE

Dean: (releasing an arrow into a guy) Five you would’ve put him in the grave.

Five: It’s where he belongs

Addison: (kicking a gun out of a criminal’s hand and across the room) Ringmaster, what did you do to stop him?

Reader: (disintegrating someone’s stomach) I had to use my powers to make him so dense he couldn’t jump. Believe me it took a lot to stop him.

Bren: (catching someone running away with his whip) Damn that’s crazy.

Lucas: (tossing a guy down a staircase) If it makes you feel better Five I would’ve done the same thing for Spotlight.

#five hargreeves #five #five x reader

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marumafan · 4 years

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Hi! I’ve been reading your KKM analyses, and I absolutely love them, most especially the YUURAM ones! Can you do some detailed ones on Love Letters and Crossheart too? Please, please?!

Hi @celinelean!

Of course! I'm having a day and may not be drawing, so why not?

Also to everyone who likes analyses/discussions, you can always leave some questions/requests in my mailbox if there's anything you're interested in. I'll try my best.

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Love Letter

"Love Letter" was Takabayashi-sensei's first new short story in about 6 years. The first part features Yuuri and Wolfram writing sweet stuff about one another.

The excuse of being 'from Greta's point of view for her homework' gave them both the excuse to express their true feelings.

(Now a cultural point here: The more I live in Japan the more I notice people never tell you the truth about anything. They either don't say anything and let you know 'in some way' or you never find out. A fan of maruma I once met, who could speak English, thanked me for continuing to talk about a topic even after we had disagreed at some point about something. She said people who disagree in Japan simply drop the topic XDD . True story. XD They avoid talking about 'truths' in general. So I feel like this whole keeping your true feelings hidden is a very Japanese thing (which is the target audience for maruma, don't forget). So in this story, both Yuuri and Wolf can express their feelings for one another.)

As for the things they like about each other:

The first thing Yuuri sees that Wolf has written in the cards was some compliment about his awesome black hair. But when Yuuri asks if he should write about Wolf's appearance "How good looking he is" " How his green eyes are like gemstones", "How even his eyelashes are blonde", Wolf's like "Of course not, that's not something Greta cares about". (Wolfie, never change. XD)

Wolf also writes: "How well he gets along with his spouse" which really shows along with his entire demeanor during this story, that even though there's no official title, he really thinks of himself as already married to Yuuri.

Yuuri then writes: "He never abandons his PARTNER" Again, this is a word you use for people you're romantically involved with, but in a more 'earthly' slang. This reminded me of the Seisa arc when, during the bed scene, Yuuri mentions how happy he is to have Wolf there.

He writes another 12 good things about Wolfram, and he mentions that "his left cheek was hot due to the flames of the fire" , implying his right cheek was blushed due to what he was writing. So he's putting in there things that make him blush.

Yuuri asks then if they will get these cards back, and Wolfram assures him that yes they will. Yuuri:"So that we can read them many times and remember how much Greta likes us."

Wolfram: "Of course"

Meaning: Yuuri: "So that I can read many times all the wonderful things you really think about me?" Wolf: "Of course"

However, Yuuri tells Wolf about the futility of having the cards, when you have the other person right there living with you. Yuuri says" Even without something like this, I'm sure that the feelings would be conveyed, " (XDD see this is what I'm talking about! This Japanese mentality of ‘expressing in some way without words’ what you feel)

BUT! this is when Wolf says that in that case, the cards would be more useful to remember people who live apart from you.

So Yuuri's 20th thing he likes about Wolfram is " He tells me things straight to the point".

This means, it's Wolfram who pretty much tells Yuuri to go visit Conrad and have him write stuff about him, cuz he's not living in the castle and so that Yuuri won't miss him.

Wolfram asks if Yuuri's going out. Yuuri says yes. Wolfram's last card says: How honest he is. Yuuri's last card says: How kind he is.

And I mean, damn! If this isn't yuuram af, I don't know what is.

Second part is what was introduced in the first part, Yuuri goes to visit Conrad, he's living above Jozak's bar in a cold, dirty room. And Conrad writes and gives him the card about Yuuri, and it 'warms Yuuri's heart'.

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Comments on Love Letter: I used to think this was a lot more conyuu than it is, but re-reading it and seeing that it was all Wolfram's idea to begin with (and Yuuri knows it was Wolfram's idea), it really shows that strong relationship between Wolfram and Yuuri and includes Conrad's current situation (not living in the castle) as a trigger for getting in a little conyuu in the story and making those fans happy.

You see this 'conyuu afterthought to please the fans' in the first two stories she wrote after the break "Love Letter" and "Lame star Wars". After that, they're all yuuram centric stories. And before the break, they were very much so as well.

It's very clear in everything Takabayashi sensei writes, that she really likes her main couple, and had always planned for them to end up together.

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Crossheart

This is an older story (2010ish), even if it was only published as an extra for the omnibus release in July 2013, and it was also used as part of drama cd 70 released in January 2013. But the contents of this story are the origin of another story published in 2011, so it must have been written before that. (EDIT: I found the original information at Ray Clover: CROSSHEART IS FROM APRIL 2006! (file: asuka1302). It was published as a mobile story, and republished as an extra in the omnibus re-release! )

The title: Although it could be a combination of crossword and heart, like hearts crossing/intertwining; or crossword and the last word of the puzzle" kokoro->heart", I like to think that sensei, knowing a bit of English based it on the phrase: "Cross my heart and hope to die"; as in 'a promise' -> which is the topic of this story.

Then the intro line starts with "That day, there was a strong wind blowing since morning, so I couldn't really go outside." This line, much like the title of novel 4, has the concept of 'wind blowing' that makes reference to the proverb 「明日は明日の風が吹く」`Ashita ha ashita no kaze ga fuku'. Tomorrow, tomorrow's wind will blow. Which means something like "there's no point in thinking ahead" or "What comes next is up to life". Whenever sensei writes that enigmatic first line, it usually carries a lot of meaning and foreshadows what is to come.

The story starts with Yuuri and Wolfram alone at the office. Some event is taking place and everyone but them is busy. Yuuri is doing a crossword and struggling. Wolfram finally gets closer to see what's bothering him.

The first hint for the crossword, is 'a pet name for children'. Wolfram then remembers his mother used to call him Honey-chan (Hachimitsu chan). Yuuri immediately likes the name and says "Maybe I too will start calling you that from now on, honey-chan."

(Additional info: In MisePan2, 2011, Wolfram gets angry at being called honey-chan, because "Yuuri is younger than him" so he has no right to call him something that older people call younger people. Clearly, "Crossheart" where Yuuri discovers Wolfram's pet name comes chronologically before Misepan2. So we can pinpoint that Crossheart was written before 2011, maybe it was even a failed attempt at Misepan2. Misepan 2 came out with the last DVD box, which was delayed a year due to circumstances with Takabayashi sensei. We know this because in the afterword of Misepan2 , the author says: "I really can't apologize enough for this.... I honestly apologize to all of you for keeping you waiting. I'm really sorry for the inconveniences I caused to all the parties I kept waiting for this." So sensei apologizes and blames herself for the delay of the last DVD box. This might have been due to her health issues, which she only mentioned once, in 2010. EDIT: I found the original information at Ray Clover: CROSSHEART IS FROM APRIL 2006! (file: asuka1302). It was published as a mobile story, and republished as an extra in the omnibus re-release!)

The second hint for his crossword was the name of a famous mouse, so of course Yuuri is thinking Micky, since the last letters are cky. But it turns out to be "Rocky" a famous mouse character. So there's a legend that small animals, like mice, squirls, rabbits and even birds can see spirits. And this particular mouse is said to deliver messages from the dead to their families.

This triggers Yuuri to ask a question to Wolf: "What would you do, if I never returned?". Wolfram asks him to clarify what he meant. And Yuuri asks: Would you cry? To which Wolf says: I wouldn't. At first Yuuri is a little hurt by the cold answer, like you wouldn't miss me? But Wolfram explains, of course he'd miss Yuuri but he wouldn't cry. Because if he did, Yuuri wouldn't be able to live a happy life back on earth. Wolfram's promise of not crying so Yuuri could be happy, left Yuuri speechless and then he noticed the word that was formed vertically in the crossword.

The hint for that word: "What you use to share your feelings with your partner."

The word is never specifically said, but in the drama cd it's "ko-ko-ro" -> heart. Which would also circle back to the "heart" in crossheart.

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Comment on Crossheart: This story as well as its natural continuation, Misepan2, are very yuuram oriented. Do you want an exorcism, another contemporary story of these two, is also largely yuuram. And the same goes for all of sensei’s work including the very last doujinshi.

I also want to point out the pet name she chose: Hachimitsuchan. Again, I may be over reaching, but she has enough English knowledge to know “Honey” is something you call children AND your significant other. The fact that Wolfram eventually gets angry at it, adds to the comedy of errors, which is one of the underlying tropes in maruma. Yuuri’s sweet words are generally misinterpreted by Wolfram.

I've been saying this for years. Takabayashi-sensei has liked this couple from the very beginning and has been building their relationship for novels on end. Every story she's written, shows them happy and together. The very last one even has them married with Wolfram wondering if Yuuri would want more 'wives' (as in, what about the other ships?) and Yuuri assuring Wolf he only wants him (no other ships are sailing from this port).

People who ship Yuuri with other characters aren't basing themselves on novel canon, which is fine, of course! But the novel canon is yuuram. Note: I use yuuram as a word to denote the relationship between Yuuri and Wolfram, also because it’s shorter than royal couple. I’m NOT talking about ‘who’s top’ in the relationship. I feel like this whole ‘top’ bottom’ talk is so 90s, we should get over it, much like Takabayashi-sensei herself has expressed she doesn’t care about that whole ‘top’ ‘bottom’ thing.

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nekoannie-chan · 4 years

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Pairing: Brock Rumlow X Reader

Word count: 1097 words.

Summary: Several people believed that your relationship with Brock would interfere with the work, you would be in charge of proving otherwise.

Warnings: Angst, death of a character, some smut references nothing explicit.

A/N: This is my entry to the @unbelievableholland ‘s Sophia’s 500 Followers Celebrations Writing Challenge! with the dialogue prompt #4:

“Oh come on. You act like it’s the worst thing I’ve done”.

And my entry to the @lielullabye ‘s Snow’s five hundred challenge with the M) dialogue prompt #16:

“He almost blew my head off!”

“Well no one’s perfect”

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Missions could always be stressful, a false move and things could end badly.

However, after you and Brock being a relationship, you didn't want to leave any loose ends or give any reason or pretext to have trouble at work.

"Have you turned on your communicator yet?” Brock questioned.

"Of course, channel six secured as usual," you responded as you pointed out where you had your transmitter hidden.

"Are you sure you know the plan?” Brock asked you again.

"Brock, this is the tenth time you've asked me, yes, if I've known it," you answered exasperatedly.

"I'm just ...”

"Worried ‘cause a lot of people think our relationship will interfere with our work, I know, I heard what you were saying to Jack the other day," you said.

"Oh...”

"Sometimes it seems like Jack's your boyfriend instead of me," you made fun of him.

"Hey, I don't have such ugly tastes!” Brock refuted.

You dropped a naughty giggle, you liked to annoy your boyfriend, especially at work because you knew he wouldn't defend himself, even if when they were alone he would "punish" you.

"Then stop telling Rollins so many things," you said funny.

"You tell your friends more intimate details...”

"But they don't work with me and even give me more advice and ideas," you answered by winking.

"After this mission, if all goes well...”

"Trust me, everything will be fine," you assured him before you parachuted.

He hadn't told you that they had put a condition on either of them to be changed as a team after the superiors found out about your relationship.

Not a single accident or injured in the next ten missions, all had to be successful and without any casualties on the team. It was too much pressure that Brock had; he also did not doubt that they would be sent on the most dangerous missions, precisely to fail.

This was the last mission to meet the condition, Brock had been tasked with making the former perfect, but the level of complexity of the condition was very high.

Although he also couldn't deny that he was too angry with Ward, he was the one who had reported them to the authorities.

Since you came in as a recruit to S.H.I.E.L.D. Brock liked you and he liked you too, you liked Ward, but you turned him down several times.

So Brock was sure that as revenge for what Ward had gone through, Ward had given you away.

What Brock liked you the most was your awkwardness, with that you had conquered him, even seemed tender to him.

He remembered how on the first date your shoe came out and you practically fell on him while they danced, then you threw the drink at Brock and endless accidents, every time you remembered it they couldn't help but laugh.

You had too many funny memories together, just as in training often prevented you from hurting yourself.

“Y/N, status?”

"I managed to get in, I see two armed guards," you reported.

You were following the plan as you had agreed, it seemed that the mission would be successful.

You were already close to where the target was stored when one of the enemies you hadn't seen caught you.

You struggled to get away, however, your enemy was stronger, you couldn't ask for help from the communicator either.

"Let's see if your team prefers what you come looking for or one of its members," he whispered in your ear as he took your gun away from you.

"Rather you're going to set it free and you're going to give us our target," Brock said.

You smiled when you saw him, you knew he wouldn't let anything bad happen to you, and so that's when the enemy pointed his gun at your head.

"You decide, she or your target, you can't have both," the enemy threatened.

"All right then I choose...”

Without hesitation Brock shot the enemy in the head, who immediately fell lifeless, you had run out of breath for a few seconds when you reacted you saw your captor on the floor.

“He almost blew my head off!”

“Well no one’s perfect”

"Brock!”

You turned around and headed nuisance to where the target was without waiting for your boyfriend.

“Y/N! Y/N!” He called you several times as he went after you.

"What? We have work to do, it won't be long before we finish the mission” you responded badly when it caught up with you.

You saved the target and informed the others and they started returning to the ship.

You didn't speak to him on the way back to Brock, although they always used to joke, this time he had pushed the boundaries, he could have hurt you without him proposing it, ultimately what Brock had done was too dangerous.

As soon as they got to base, he stopped you, he didn't like you getting mad.

"Y/N, talk to me," he asked.

“No.”

“Oh come on. You act like it’s the worst thing I’ve done”.

"Shut up, I hate you.”

"No, you didn’t, that's a lie, you love me, don't be mad, babe...”

"What if things had gone wrong? What if your shot had failed? "You recriminate, you got away, and you started walking.

"But it wasn't like that... I had no options...”

You stopped when you heard those words.

"Another option? What do you mean? "You inquired.

"Nothing...”

“Tell me the truth or I'll walk away and I'm not going to talk to you or... nothing you like” you threatened.

"I didn't tell you because I didn't want you to get angry, but I couldn't let any of the last ten missions go wrong or there was a mistake or anything out of the ordinary," Brock said.

"Why?” You asked confused.

"If not... to either of us would be changed as a team, Ward was the one who told the superiors that our relationship could cause conflict with our work...”

“Brock! You should have told me sooner,” you claimed.

"I didn't want to lose you...”

"You never will, so... have we passed the test?”

"I don't know, I'm entirely sure, I guess at the next meeting I'll know.”

You approached Brock and surrounded his neck with your arms.

"So ... was Ward the one who ratted us out?” You questioned.

"That's what it looks like.”

"What if we take revenge on him now?" You proposed.

"I like it, what do you have in mind?”

"Nothing yet, but I'll figure it out.”

"I love it when you're so mean," he remarked and kissed you.

#sophias500followerscelebration #sophias500followerswc #snowswritingchallenge #snows writing challenge #brock rumlow #brock fanfic #brock rumlow fanfic #brockrumlow #brock rumlow x reader #brock rumlow x you #brock rumlow x y/n #brock x reader #brock x you #brock x y/n

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*slams fists on table* MYSTELEON

I knew you wouldnt disappoint! :D tho you already know most of these lmaoo lotsa credit to @herbofoo anyway, i dont remember which of these you came up with but Patchwork wouldnt be the same without your Good Good Content! (And of course thanks for all your patience as i cry about comics lmao)

I’ve lost all shame long since ive started shipping them so brace yourself for the self-indulgent cheese that is Chameleon/Mysterio in my Patchwork verse. (its reallly. really Melodramatic. i gave up all pretense.. also under the cut cuz its long..)

ask meme

Who cooks:

Mysterio! Although Chameleon is objectively The Superior Cook thanks to the long years of being a servant to picky russian nobility BUT exactly because of that, he really doesnt enjoy it, even less when cooking for others and not just himself. So it is usually Beck who prepares meals (that are not bad either, they are just simpler) but as often as they can, they eat out. That said, Cham is very well aware Quentin loves his cooking so sometimes, he makes them something. (Being sick isnt so bad when it means Chammy bringin you a big bowl of hot borscht :)

On the other hand, Cham has quite a sweet tooth which Q notices Fast and decides to learn how to bake. It took more effort and failed tries than it could have, mostly because he got cocky, how hard could this be and just. kept forgetting he put stuff in the oven.. But now he makes quite delicious cookies n cakes which make Dmitri almost tear up because tasty + Quentin baked something Specifically for him??

Who does the laundry and other chores:

Mysterio’s laundry is usually booby trapped so he has to clean it himself and he doesnt even let Cham near it. And he keeps forgetting gadgets in his civvies. Not to mention that again, for the same servant reason, Cham really doesnt enjoy house chores in general, so he usually just gets his own clothes cleaned somewhere else (especially since his fancy suits and even fancier gowns are the highest quality and delicate materials, he doesnt even Know how to clean them..)

As for the rest of the chores, its pretty balanced, although Cham has more of an eye for things that needs to be cleaned up (and Beck already has cooking duties) so he does a tad more.

How many children do they have + Any pets:

In my Patchwork universe there’s a whole Thing about Leon, the Chameleon of the Ultimate universe but I’ve tried to type up a short summary and failed, it’s a long story lmao ^^;; and anyway he isnt exactly their kid, he is just much younger than them and they ended up sorta mentoring him.

However, they have Celavi, the escaped ex-spy beluga.(Yes, it started as a joke based on this post that accidentally grew more and more serious until @herbofoo and me were too attached to let it go) She counts pretty much as their adopted daughter that they both spoil to hell and back, I mean no surprise, she saved Cham’s life once and sometimes, she helps out with heists. (Mostly for the show, you should have SEEN the look on Spider’s face when a beluga splashed him. He is used to humanoid sharks, to Hydroman.. not like. real life beluga that LAUGHS at him) Beck’s voice: “Dont you dare to insult her, SHE IS PERFECT AND FLAWLESS and A GOODNESS INCARNATE!! -she is literally a deserted russian spy that was trained to gather everything that could be used to harm USA-yea, i have a soft spot for those ;)“

She was always surprisingly clever so she never really counted as a “pet” and at one point, she even bonds with a symbiote (together they are Vague, again long story ah ha). They dont talk but have quite some range of vocalisations so communication isnt a problem.

Who’s more dominant:

They both have pretty dominant strong personalities (ok chameleon’s a bit more complicated with that but like.) with big egos who dont like others questioning their superiority. (Of course not at the level of like Doc Ock etc, they are surprisingly flexible and good team players that can be willing to let someone else take the spotlight if they are Nice) But the whole point of their relationship is that neither of them is dominant over the other, they get enough of that literally everywhere else. It’s very reassuring to be so sure that they are on equal footing, cooperating, no hidden nooses around their neck. Especially in their line of work of course!

(Also, for the other interpretation of this question: anythin remotely sexual happens Pretty Late in the story and both of them are somewhere on the ace spectrum so it doesnt happen that often but they are both verses tho Beck bottoms more)

Favorite nonsexual activity:

MOVIES!! Sprawled on the giant comfy couch, closer than technically needed, cuddling and watching old movies with great special effects and/or great actors! Listening to Beck excitedly rant through the most dramatic speech of the story as he explains how the next cliffhanger is done with hydraulics! Focusing so hard on the stars in his eyes and his excited tone and gestures and just the tone of his voice you forgot to listen to the words themselves! Watching Cham’s face flawlessly mimic the faces on the screen in a blink of an eye and secretly guessing which one will he pick next. Feeling his head slowly fall on your shoulder, eyes closed, his mask smooth but not tense, instead just.. peaceful. Slight ping of annoyance, after all, this is A Classic movie dammit, but it’s gone in a second because Mitya hasnt slept since thursday and you are just relieved he is finally getting his rest. Feeling his warmth under your hand on his shoulders and suddenly never ever wanting to get up again.. EHM. anyway

PLANING HEISTS TOGETHER!! and more or less successfully executing them but planning is actually even more fun aside from the Big Reveals and Entrances which are actually harder to coordinate than one would think!

Lots of shobiz/job talk actually, they really enjoy what they do! Lots of people already mentioned that in their hc compilations but i agree, they love goin to see all kinds of movies and plays and performances as well as acting various scenes with one another!

Their favorite place to be together:

NEW YORK CITY BABEYY. Sure they love to travel and see other countries (and cause mayhem there) but.. they love their mess of a city, it’s never the same without the webhead around as well as the bazillion of other heroes n villains bashin each other’s heads.

Any traditions:

Oh so many pop culture references and inside jokes, oh my god. One time, they spent the entire heist (and its planning period) speaking strictly in famous movie lines and titles, Max and other sixers tried to join but didnt last too long :’D

Beck also has a habit of taking pictures of people with Interesting faces or styles he sees and sends them to Cham. Also another fanon classic: together they have a running game, disguising themselves as moderately famous people and the other guessing who..

Their “song”:

‘This is me’ from the Greatest Showman, i just live for the two of them singin it in Cham’s car,off key but fully immersed and living it.

What they do for each other on holidays:

Neither of them are religious but that doesnt stop Beck from going ALL OUT at any opportunity, Sin Six doesn’t do any heists around holidays because you Know he’d make them dress for the occasion or worse, write them themed lines… They still meet for Christmas and Hanukkah and sometimes other holidays too because this is my AU and you can pry festivities-related shenanigans from my cold, cold hands. It’s always at Beck’s place tho because he can turn his hideout into the tackiest holiday-themed showcase but he aint roping them into it.

On the other hand, Cham despises American commercialized holidays in general and Christmas time especially, since it’s not a big thing in Russia and also once again, he has family issues for days. (Although relatively speaking, he is pretty over these, he is not gonna like mope around or anything)

Anyway, what they do for each other is that they try to compromise, Dmitri doesnt sneer at stupid kitsch decorations every 5 minutes and Quentin ..chills a little. :’D To be fair, Beck makes everything fun and having Cham there makes Beck appreciate the details more instead of just goin into BETTER!BIGGER! frenzy.

Where did they go for their honeymoon:

After the fuckin Ages of pinning, when they finally end up together for realsies, they wanted somethin Big and Flashy! (Well Beck wanted and Cham kinda too but also with the option to merge with the crowd unnoticed and take some chill time) Anyway they went on a whole world wide tour! Starting with a luxury cruise, they took their time, lots of crime sprees to plan and execute, lots of local shows to see, lots of dumb heroes to fool, they’re gonna have it all!

Where did they first meet:

Around the time when Cham and Hammerhead had their criminal empire running Fisk to the ground, Otto decided the Sin Six should team up with them for their ressources needed on one heist or something. They agreed but Cham insisted on actually going in the field, it’s been a while since he really stretched his face legs like this and the mafia life was starting to bore him. Doc made him team up with Mysterio much to the fishbowl’s dismay because why do they need another disguise artist?? He is the Master Of Illusions dammit, he can run circles around this guy, what the fuck Otto?? So at the start, he pouts and fumes under his helmet and in general he is his v unpleasant self but… He can’t help but notice that the new guy is a real professional, he even uses Traditional masks, he likes the same movies… And most importantly, he is actually interested in Mysti’s craft, asking questions and even LISTENING to his long winded answers… At one point he even wondered if that X thing was meant as a HOMMAGE to the Y movie, the Six never did that!! (Usually the rest of the sixers dont know the reference, heathens, and when they do, they mock him for it, that he’s copying ideas and mixin them ridiculously. BUT THIS GUY GETS IT!!) So it doesn’t take long for them to hit it off, of course at this point without any real Trust behind it but it’s a start.

(Though Beck does pay a visit to Otto like, buddy pal i know you’ve been planning on manipulating these crimelords to your end somehow and honestly, any other day i’d be down, i actually had a robot prepared for my own backstab but i was thinking they werent that bad and maybe we Could hold our end of the bargain this time and just. leave each other on good terms? Mabye? Obviously it’s purely out of respect for our teammate Kraven since him and Chameleon seem to have some history, nothing more, definitely nothing to do with how bright Cham’s eyes were when i was showing him the back of my stage… )

What do they fight over:

this whole post has been a mountain of cheese but im bringing more! Honestly, goin through my notes on Patchwork, their biggest arguments have always been about.. the other one not taking proper care of himself :’D Or them lashing out because they were scared and worried about the other and they cant stand being so vulnerable while the other pretends it’s not a big deal because they dont know how to handle genuine concern directed at them.

Do they go on vacations, if so where:

GIVE!!! BECK!!!! HIS!!!! ISLAND!!!!!!They actually do have one, it’s where Celavi spends most of the time and they visit her often. But never for too long, neither of them can actually spend too long doing nothing..

#dmitri smerdyakov #mysterio #quentin beck #chameleon #sinister six #marvel #spidey #spider man #hey i got 30 followers here nice! so have some long boring rambles! :D #31 actually wow nice nice !!#patchwork #kao posts

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Danganronpa V3 Commentary: Part 2.1

Be aware that this is not a blind playthrough! This will contain spoilers for the entire game, regardless of the part of the game I’m commenting on. A major focus of this commentary is to talk about all of the hints and foreshadowing of events that are going to happen and facts that are going to be revealed in the future of the story. It is emphatically not intended for someone experiencing the game for their first time.

Last time, Everyone Felt Bad as we finished up chapter 1. Kaede was brave and selfless in the face of death, Shuichi took up her wish but not without plenty of suffering and blaming himself, and Kaito finally came into actual narrative focus (as opposed to the focus I’ve been giving him anyway despite him being mostly in the background) as he began to reach out and help Shuichi after a brief false start caused by his own pain and suffering.

And now for chapter 2, which means lots more Kaito, and maybe somewhat less pain and suffering. But only somewhat.

So this scene of the fake funeral that this chapter begins with is… strange, in a few ways. First of all, who’s actually seeing this? Is this something that’s being shown to the in-universe audience as a hint to the overarching “story”? It shouldn’t really be shown only to us, the out-universe audience, because from our point of view, it’s fake anyway. Aside from that, why not show all sixteen portraits like there should be instead of just Kaede? It’s already heavily implied enough that all sixteen of them are meant to be there. And if they only want to show the currently-dead students for some reason, why isn’t Rantaro there too? There’s no reason for that that I can see.

A Thin Line Divides Heaven And Hell

…I’m honestly not sure which part of the story of this chapter this title is meant to be referring to. The notion of hell more brings to mind what Alter Ego Gonta says much later about both the inside and the outside worlds.

Maybe it’s actually trying to reference Kirumi’s execution? I’ll talk about what that has to do with hell when we get to it.

horse a

As a Pokémon person, I totally read this as “horsea” when I first saw it.

*ding-dong!* *ding-do-ding-do-ding-do-ding-do-ding-dong!*

I love Kaito’s doorbell habits. It’s so him to keep impatiently pressing it until he gets an answer instead of just waiting like a sensible person. And it proves useful for identifying when it’s Kaito at your door before you even open it.

Don’t think too hard about the hidden Monokumas from chapter 1 that are on Shuichi’s shelves. Kaede never had shelves for them. Did they just teleport into Shuichi’s room when she found them and he was left wondering where the hell they came from?

Shuichi: “Ah… do you… need something?”

Kaito: “Well, yeah! Food! I was gonna eat breakfast with everyone in the dining hall, but you weren’t there… That’s why I came to get you.”

Kaito acts like this is simply about how he doesn’t want to start breakfast without everyone there, but really there’s more to it than that. He’s concerned about Shuichi in particular, after what happened yesterday, and upon seeing that he’s still holing himself up in his room rather than facing everyone, Kaito took it upon himself to reach out to him. This is already the beginnings of how supportive Kaito is going to be to Shuichi throughout this chapter and the rest of the game.

Kaito: “A-Are you serious? If you don’t have breakfast, then what do you eat in the morning?”

Shuichi: “Um…?”

I love how awkward and hesitant and bewildered by Kaito’s forwardness Shuichi is being.

Also note how Shuichi’s portrait is not being shown yet in this conversation, so that they can save the no-hat reveal for a little later. Anyone who’s played enough of the other Danganronpas is probably so used to not seeing the protagonist’s face that they might not even notice this and find it suspicious.

Huh. Turns out that in the mugshots you get if you bring up the backlog, it shows Shuichi with his hat on, even though he shouldn’t be wearing it.

Shuichi: (I don’t need that anymore…)

Still, props to Shuichi, despite that he’s been moping around in his room to the point that he apparently didn’t even hear the morning announcement, for still making the conscious choice to leave his hat behind, in his first small step at facing his fears and fulfilling Kaede’s wish.

Kaito: “Oh, right… I was gonna tell you… I-I’m sorry about yesterday… Y’know, for… slugging you like that.”

Exhibit 3 of Kaito’s opinion on apologising: he’s perfectly willing to do it, when he’s accepted that he really did do something wrong. Last night he punched Shuichi not because he genuinely thought it was a good idea, but because he was too upset himself to be thinking clearly and lashed out. Having had some time to clear his head and sleep it off let him realise that that was a mistake and there was no way it was ever going to help in that situation.

Shuichi: “Huh? Ah, that… It’s okay.”

Kaito: “I-I see… Then let’s go.”

He even seems hesitant at Shuichi’s acceptance of the apology, like he thought his actions were bad enough that Shuichi ought to be more upset at him than this.

Enter Shuichi’s Danganronpa Protagonist Hair! Given that Danganronpa seems utterly insistent on having all their protagonists have this hair, it’s a very clever little trick they pulled to give Shuichi a hat in chapter 1 complete with a perfectly in-character reason to no longer want to wear the hat once he becomes the protagonist, so that they could hide it until the twist happens.

Kokichi: “You finally got rid of that emo hat! Is this cuz Kaede died or whatever?”

Have I ever mentioned: Kokichi is a completely uncalled-for asshole sometimes. And by sometimes I mean a lot of the time.

Kaito: “Oh, huh, you’re not wearing your hat. I didn’t even notice.”

I don’t buy this for a second. Kaito is very perceptive when it comes to people, not to mention Shuichi’s whole “wait, let me get my – never mind” moment back in his dorm room. Kaito absolutely noticed the missing hat. He’s just perceptive enough that he realised Shuichi deciding not to wear it was clearly something personal to do with Kaede’s death, and that it would be awkward and uncomfortable for him to bring it up if Shuichi didn’t want to talk about it. He also didn’t want to explain why he didn’t bring it up and in doing so make a point of how considerate he’s being, because this isn’t about him. So instead, he’s taking the simplest way of dealing with things by pretending he didn’t notice it and acting like it’s not a big deal at all.

Kaito: “Anyway, don’t be late anymore, Shuichi. We already decided we’re eating breakfast together.”

Maki: “…You decided that on your own.”

So I know Kokichi was the first one to suggest everyone meet in the dining hall for breakfast back in chapter 1, but that didn’t really stick, what with the time limit making everyone scatter. But apparently Kaito has now been the one to make it a thing again, and this time, it’s going to stick. Of course Kaito would want everyone to keep meeting up like this every morning, to foster a better spirit of cooperation between them and therefore give them all a better chance at fulfilling Kaede’s wish.

Angie: “Keebo and Kokichi seem to be getting along swimmingly.”

No, Angie, what you’re witnessing between them isn’t friendship, it’s bullying. Pretty big difference.

Shuichi: (But we all knew it wasn’t really normal. It was forced conversation. But that’s to be expected. That incident just happened yesterday, after all.)

Barely even yesterday, in fact! Rantaro died around 9pm, and with the investigation and trial taking a few hours each, it’d have been the early hours of the morning by the time it was over. And I can’t imagine anyone was in any state to get decent sleep after that. Then somehow they’re up again pretending to be fine at just after 8am? That’s… some pretty impressive resilience they’re all showing here.

Kaito: “Hm? What’s the matter, Shuichi?”

Look at how much Kaito is paying attention to Shuichi and noticing the slightest sign that something’s wrong.

They talk about the writing in the grass, and…

Kaito: “Well, how about it, Shuichi? Let’s hear the Ultimate Detective’s opinion.”

Here’s Kaito thinking of Shuichi again, trying to help him feel included and that his talent is helpful to everyone.

Gonta: “But… bug so tiny, even Gonta no could see it. And Gonta have 20/0.625 eyesight.”

Can we talk about how Gonta’s eyesight is so ridiculously good and yet he wears glasses? It’s not just something he wears as part of his “character” to look like more of a gentleman, either, since pregame Gonta wore them too, and would obviously also have had equally good eyesight.

Kokichi: “Wooow, Gonta! You did it! I knew I could rely on you since the moment we met!”

Gonta: “What? Really?”

Kokichi: “…Yep! So you should work for me!”

Gonta: “Okay!”

YOU LEAVE GONTA ALONE. Guhh, of course this would work on him; he’s always so desperate to be helpful and is probably so rarely told something like this.

Kokichi: “Nee-heehee… Gonta, you’re so gullible. Y’know, if you keep being this gullible… You’ll be killed before you know it. Understand?”

YES. BECAUSE YOU WILL BE THE ONE TO KILL HIM, ASSHOLE.

(He doesn’t do it directly, but Kokichi does kill Gonta. This is a fact.)

Kokichi: “Has the K-word been banned? S-Sorry… I didn’t know. But that’s not very reasonable, is it? Not when the killing game is still happening.”

I will give Kokichi that he has a reasonable point that pretending everything is fine and nobody got killed is not a particularly helpful way of dealing with things, especially when there’s still the chance it could happen again. Of course, Kokichi is probably saying this because he personally feels much safer when everyone is being open about the possibility of a killing than when everyone’s putting up forced smiles that could be hiding anything behind them.

Kokichi: “…It’s that kinda talk that lets Monokuma play you all like fiddles.”

Shuichi: “What…?”

Kokichi: “Oh, did you hear that? Don’t mind me – I was just talking to myself.”

So you’re not going to help everyone avoid being what you believe is manipulated by Monokuma by explaining what you mean and how he’s doing it, Kokichi? Okay, then, please just continue to be selfish and not care about anyone else.

Tenko: “Himiko, were you a victim of bullying in the past? Is that why your heart is broken and you can’t express real emotions anymore!? Gaaahhh! Use your magic to turn the human rejects who bullied you into misshapen wretches!”

Himiko: “I don’t use my magic for stuff like that. And don’t just make up my backstory.”

Well, Himiko, someone in this room literally did make up your backstory, but it wasn’t Tenko.

And honestly, that seems like it could be a pretty accurate fit for what Himiko’s backstory is. It doesn’t come up in her FTEs, but bullying would explain why she’s so emotionally closed-off. Also, here’s an early sign of Tenko’s concern about how Himiko doesn’t express her emotions! It’s a shame there’s only a little of that in this chapter, but this hint at it is nice.

Tsumugi: “Maybe we need to use these on those mysterious things all over the campus?”

Ryoma: “And what’ll happen when we do?”

Tsumugi: “Umm… I’m not sure.”

Yeah, Tsumugi, you definitely have no idea. And you definitely didn’t suggest using the objects on the things because you were worried that otherwise nobody would figure it out and no new places would open.

Kokichi: “I’ll take the junk, then.”

Kaito: “No, let’s leave this to Shuichi.”

Shuichi: “What? Me?”

Kaito: “You’re the Ultimate Detective, yeah? You should be good at weirdo puzzles like this. So I’m gonna leave it to you!”

This job doesn’t need a detective; anyone would figure out where the things go sooner or later through trial and error, and splitting the job up would make it go faster. What this is is Kaito thinking of Shuichi yet again, trying to make him feel that his talent is useful and that everyone’s relying on him for something, giving him a purpose so he won’t just be aimlessly wandering around not knowing what to do. Kaito is so good. He’s clearly already decided that he’s going to do whatever it takes to get Shuichi back on his feet and able to carry on Kaede’s wish, and practically everything he’s done so far this morning has been in aid of that.

(I mean, yes, it’s also because Shuichi is the player character and the writers want the players to be the ones to do the unlocking, but it is so wonderfully in character for Kaito to do this that it doesn’t feel forced at all.)

Also, it’s a good thing Kokichi didn’t take the stuff, or else we’d probably never see half the new areas.

Checking out the new areas in question, then, starting with Himiko’s lab as it’s the closest.

Himiko: “But my familiar isn’t a dove, it’s a tiger cub.”

Tsumugi: “A tiger cub! It must be so cute! I’m jealous of you, being able to pet something fluffy like that whenever.”

Shuichi: (I’ll admit, even I’m kind of jealous…)

Shuichi is blushing in embarrassment as he thinks this. Apparently Shuichi has a secret soft spot for cats that he doesn’t like to admit to. (Yes, this was clearly an important enough point that I needed to comment on it.)

A large group of people has gathered outside where the second floor corridor will open up, waiting awkwardly for Shuichi to arrive with the thing to open it. Just goes to show that Kaito was not thinking about efficiency when he gave this whole job to Shuichi.

Ryoma: “So you finally decided to raise your head.”

Shuichi: “What?”

Ryoma: “Up till yesterday, you were always walking around staring at your feet, right? Even when you had to look up, you used your hat to block out what you didn’t want to see…”

Ryoma is still very perceptive and good.

Ryoma: “Hmph… sorry for the unsolicited advice.”

No, Ryoma, unsolicited advice is exactly what Shuichi needs right now! Just look at what Kaito’s already started doing.

Gonta is standing close to Kokichi, like he considers Kokichi a closer friend than anyone else already, and it makes me sad.

Maki: “…You look better now. I didn’t think you’d get over Kaede’s death so quickly.”

Shuichi: “…We don’t have time to be standing around.”

Maki: “…How heartless. Guess you two weren’t as close as you looked.”

It’s interesting to me how Maki assumes that if Shuichi doesn’t seem outwardly upset by Kaede’s death, then he must just not care. It’s probably a product of Maki’s own defence mechanisms where she’s got so used to pushing aside the pain of the deaths she causes that she’s convinced herself she doesn’t care at all and is just a heartless monster. Therefore anyone else who doesn’t appear to be upset by someone’s death must also just be heartless and not actually have emotions about that death that they’re hiding, right?

Some of the people who’ve been standing around run off to explore the new floor as soon as Shuichi opens it, but some stay where they were for the time being. For some very strange reason, one of the people who stays is Maki. You’d think she’d be the first one to be checking out the new floors in case her lab is there, especially since, when Shuichi does get to her lab, she’s already inside guarding it. If I were to happen to choose to make a beeline straight for her lab, she shouldn’t have had a chance to get there before Shuichi. Let’s not do that, then.

Kirumi: “Selfless devotion is the principle by which I perform my responsibilities as a maid. I can cast aside my personal feelings for the sake of serving everyone.”

I like how those two bits are bolded because they will be Very Important in this chapter. Though, really, I dunno if Kirumi is actually casting aside her personal feelings. It feels more to me like her personal feelings genuinely are to worry about everyone else before herself, and nothing else.

Shuichi: “I suppose that’s what makes you the Ultimate Maid. Most people wouldn’t do that.”

I dunno, Shuichi; Kaede was also just about that selfless. And maybe there’s two or three more people in this school who are, too.

It would have been really awkward if Shuichi had decided to just turn the Flashback Light on to test out what it does and then only he and Angie got exposed to it.

Shuichi: “Releasing all these bugs in a new world… It’s like that Bible story. Noah’s Ark…”

Here’s a nice little early reference to that. Having the Ultimate Entomologist be here on this supposed Noah’s Ark spaceship is one of the parts of it that makes more sense, since it’d be important to have bugs populate the new world to pollinate all the plants they’ve got growing right now. Though they could also use an Ultimate… Botanist? Horticulturist? Farmer? Something.

Gonta: “Who make this room anyway? Gonta need to say thank you.”

Shuichi: “Ah, um… I suppose it was Monokuma and the Monokubs.”

Gonta: “What? No way… Monokuma? But… no person who likes bug can be bad person. Gonta sad…”

Aww, poor Gonta. He is so pure.

The map really shouldn’t have that baby symbol on Maki’s lab before Shuichi’s even tried to enter it. Either the map symbol is from the Monopad, in which case it shouldn’t be incorrect, or it’s from Shuichi’s mental idea of what each room is, in which case he doesn’t know this one is Maki’s yet.

Maki: “…I did not give you permission to enter.”

Shuichi: “Ah! Maki? So this is the Ultimate Child Caregiver’s lab. …You wouldn’t think so, judging by the door—”

Maki: “You’re right. Goodbye.”

It’s so heartbreaking to see Maki immediately become this closed off now that there’s a chance people might find out her true talent. Just a few minutes ago she was willing to have a conversation with Shuichi about how he’s dealing with Kaede’s death, but now, nothing matters to her next to making sure no-one ever sees inside this room. She’s so terrified of what’ll happen if people learn her secret.

Maki: “If you try to go inside, it would be extremely painful… for you.”

Not convinced this threat is genuine, since Maki specialises in quick and painless deaths. (Well, that and if someone did see inside there’d be no point in trying to stop them anymore.)

Shuichi: (But where exactly is this academy built, anyway? No one has come to save us… it must be someplace remote. But where could you build a complex this large in secret?)

Haha, that’s the trick, isn’t it? It’s not secret at all.

Tenko: “I wouldn’t ever dare to ask why you decided to remove your hat! That’s something that should be kept private between you and Kaede!”

I appreciate Tenko continuing to treat Shuichi like a person. Not that this should be something so unexpected that I should need to comment on it, but.

Still, Tenko bringing it up like this is her awkwardly making an overt point about how considerate she’s being. This is what Kaito was deliberately avoiding when he pretended he hadn’t noticed it at all.

Tenko: “Well then, Shuichi! Lead the way, you lousy degenerate! Shout if you find a trap! But I won’t help you, because you’re a degenerate male!”

…Aaaand that didn’t last long.

The rules get updated to add one about swimming at nighttime, now that we’ve opened up the pool. That’s totally not going to be relevant in the next murder or anything, right. (This appears to be a pattern common with all chapter 2s we’ve seen – a new rule gets added that ends up being relevant to the case.)

The Monokubs at least attempt to handwave why the pool isn’t filled up all the way, but no, that’s clearly also going to be somehow relevant to the murder.

Shuichi, stop reading out the exact size of the pool like that’s also going to end up being relevant. You’re really tempting fate here.

It’s also really weird that the game insists you examine both the windows before leaving. It’s not like that’s information you need to know about before the investigation. Be more subtle, game writers.

Tenko: “Oh, Keebo! Are you a degenerate male or a girl!? Which is it!?”

Keebo: “Good question… I’ve honestly never thought about it before.”

Nonbinary Keebo is nonbinary! Although apparently he doesn’t mind people using “he” to refer to him, presumably because he hasn’t given his pronouns enough thought to care that strongly in any direction.

Kaito: “That weird projection there… I’ve got a feeling you can use that one thing with it! Well, I’ve got no idea how, though!”

Assuming that he’s correctly thinking Shuichi should be using the crank, I don’t know why he has no idea how to use it. What else do you do with a crank? Makes me think he’s just saying that to try and leave the puzzle-solving for Shuichi to do.

Kaito: “But my hunches are usually right! Let’s give it a try!”

Your hunches are usually right when they’re about people, Kaito. When they’re about puzzles and investigations? Not so much, even though this one is.

So we open up the casino, which only really exists for gameplay purposes… but even so, Kaito is in here, making bad decisions.

Kaito: “If I don’t meet his challenge, I’m not a true man!”

More of Kaito’s definition of manliness: not backing down from challenges! Also a very Kaito kind of principle to have, and also nothing specifically related to gender.

Kaito: “Besides, there’s no way my intuition as Luminary of the Stars can be wrong!”

It can if it’s about something purely luck-based, Kaito! No matter how good your intuition is, it will not work on slot machines. Stop.

Shuichi: (And thus began the sad tale of Kaito’s downfall…)

I am way too amused by the way Shuichi phrases this.

Kaito: “This is where I’m gonna have my dramatic comeback! Just you watch!”

As ridiculous and ill-advised as Kaito’s casino shenanigans are, they’re still very him. He’s incredibly reckless, incapable of backing down from challenges, and is the sort of person to invest in narratives about people miraculously coming from behind when the odds are against them. Of course he’d do this.

Monokuma: “Man, I’m glad I built this casino! Watching suckers lose everything is hilarious!”

Except for the part where actually the slots have a positive net payout. So either Kaito just got really, really unlucky, or someone set them up to have a negative net payout specifically when Kaito is using them, just to mess with him. I wouldn’t put that past Monokuma, honestly.

(Or it’s just a case of gameplay and story segregation and the slots don’t really have a positive net payout in-universe. But it’s more fun to imagine the former option.)

All that said, it’s interesting to consider why this scene is here. As I mentioned, the casino basically only exists as a gameplay thing – it doesn’t need to have any relevance to the story. They could have just not had this scene with Kaito in here at all and put him somewhere else during the opening-up-new-areas segment (Ryoma’s lab, or in front of Maki’s, would have been interesting and relevant). So I think this scene might be here because it serves a deeper purpose than you’d think, in terms of the light it paints Kaito in. It shows him furiously trying to succeed at something… and failing spectacularly, because he was being ridiculous and reckless and never should have expected success in the first place. And maybe that could give people the impression that something similar is going to happen to him in the actual killing game – that sooner or later he’s going to try something stupid and get himself killed for it. This scene and the earlier bits in chapter 1, where he almost got himself killed twice due to acting before he thinks and where Monokuma commented on how he’s probably not going to live very long, make it come across like the game’s narrative considers Kaito very expendable. A friend of mine who I watched play through the game came out of this casino scene specifically saying that the scene made her worried for Kaito’s survival, leading her to blitz through all of his free time events in this chapter just in case.

I feel like this is reasonably likely to be a deliberate trick the writers are trying to pull, since obviously Kaito is in fact not expendable and very important to the story, yet he’s the one who is most noticeably being treated this way. At least, I very much spent most of my first time through really caring about Kaito yet in constant terror that he was going to end up the next victim, more than I think it is natural to do even for a Danganronpa character. And it would make sense for the writers to be going for this, if it was all to build up to chapter 5 in which the entire point is to make you believe Kaito is dead when he isn’t.

…Game, what do you mean I need to examine the love hotel and acknowledge its existence to advance the story. It has absolutely no purpose in canon, even more so than the casino. The less said about it, the better.

In the gym, after Monokuma explains the Flashback Light, everybody is generally in accord that it sounds super suspicious and dangerous and they shouldn’t use it. Then…

Kaito: “Alright! Then it’s decided! Let’s use it!”

Tsumugi: “Huh? Who decided that? We were all saying how dangerous it sounds…”

Kaito: “Geez, you guys are way too cautious. I mean, I understand why. We’re in such a weird situation, after all. But… we can’t win by just running away all the time!”

Shuichi: (…What?)

Kaito: “If you want to win, you’ve gotta be a little reckless sometimes. If we can’t face this danger, there’s no way we’ll be able to defeat Monokuma.”

It’s Kaito being his usual reckless self, but in a way that’s well-reasoned and makes a lot of sense (for once). After the ordeal of yesterday, everyone’s freaked out and hesitant to take any kind of action in case something bad happens again, but Kaito knows that if they keep up this attitude they’ll never get anywhere in terms of escaping. He’s doing this now less purely for the sake of the Flashback Light and more to generally try and bring everybody back to a more positive, action-driven mindset, because that’s much more likely to help get them out of here. Kaede would probably have been the one to encourage them to do this if she’d still been around, but since she’s not, Kaito’s stepping up and filling her role in the best way he knows how.

Kiyo: “But you’ve no idea *how* we’re supposed to win, do you?”

Kaito: “Yeah, I’ve got no clue. But still… If you wanna win, you gotta make a stand somewhere or you’ll never move forward.”

He’s also, rarely for Kaito, actually admitting that he has no idea what he’s doing. But at the very least, he’s certain that doing nothing is the wrong choice.

Kaito: “If you still wanna run away, then go ahead. I won’t stop you or blame you.”

And he’s not trying to force them to agree with him or to take the risk if they’re not willing to. He said his bit to inspire them, and he’s hoping it’ll work, but in the end, it’s everyone’s personal choice whether they buy into his words or not.

Kokichi: “Okaaaay, fine. Then, let’s go— …Huh? What’s wrong, everyone? Aren’t we going?”

Kokichi, naturally, still wants to take the coward’s way out and expects everyone else to have not been affected by Kaito’s speech either.

But everyone else agrees with Kaito! He may not be the best at successfully taking action, but Kaito is very good at making a difference with his words.

Keebo: “That’s how I feel, deep inside. Just a whisper—”

Keebo’s inner voice agrees too, apparently. Not surprising that the audience would want them to use Flashback Lights, since they’re probably a series staple at this point.

Kokichi: “I’ll stay, too! So what if it might cause some weird side effects? That’s no big deal!”

This statement really reads to me like he’s going “you’re all idiots for not being worried about the side effects, this is how stupid you sound”, rather than that he genuinely isn’t afraid to stay, which is why I think his earlier desire to leave was the truth rather than this. He just doesn’t want to be the only one to leave because that’d make it him look like a coward.

Some of the words in the background of the Flashback Light cutscene were shamelessly taken from the one with Kaede – “moonlight” again, and “chatty” – and really shouldn’t be here now.

Shuichi: (A lightning bolt in my mind shattered my consciousness like shrapnel. Like a video in fast-forward, scenes played out in the back of my head. When the pieces of my psyche had gathered together again…)

I really like this description of what it feels like. It does a great job of subtly hinting at what’s really going on – their memories are straight-up being rewritten; of course it would probably break their consciousness for a little while as it’s happening. And I can really get the sense that, if a more extreme version of this happened, you literally could rewrite an entire person from scratch.

Shuichi: (If I didn’t do what I did, I would have been captured, a fate worse than death.)

…Actually, no? The “fate worse than death” should be getting forced to participate in the Gofer Project and live on while the rest of humanity went extinct. The Ultimate Hunt was opposing the Gofer Project and trying to kill them, which surely would have been what they’d want?

The whole “backstory” is honestly pretty flimsy and full of inconsistencies when you think about it for too long, but perhaps that’s the whole point.

At least with the information we have up to this point, the idea that the “fate worse than death” they were running from is this very killing game makes sense as a theory. And more importantly, it justifies why they would have started off with no memory of their talents, to give an alternate plausible explanation to the first part of the prologue.

Kiyo: “But if you truly wish to hear his words, I could perform a seance for you.”

Kiyo, I don’t know why you care about that, you don’t yet have the means to murder someone during one.

Kaito: “S-Stop it! Don’t bring up weird stuff like that!”

And of course Kaito Does Not Approve of anyone mentioning seances, heh.

Maki: “What connection do you have with the Ultimate Hunt?”

Monokuma: “Puhuhu… I can’t reveal that.”

Can’t reveal it, or the writers just haven’t actually decided yet? Given that the full reveal about the “story” ends up mostly being them going “sure, let’s go with that” about Kokichi’s educated guess and then adding in some Hope’s Peak stuff, it seems to me like the writers are trying to keep things flexible.

Kaito: “We just gotta work together. If we cooperate, we’ll make it out of here alive. Just like a certain someone said…”

Kaito is doing his bit to carry on Kaede’s wish!

Keebo: “But I believe cooperating with each other is the most logical course of action—”

Kokichi: *snore* “I’m snooooring!”

But of course Kokichi can’t be having any of this bullshit talk about cooperating, right.

Kokichi: “We don’t have to work together, though.”

But why on earth wouldn’t we want to? Only someone who is irrationally convinced that cooperation is an idiotic choice no matter the circumstances would say something like that.

Kokichi: “We’re gonna ask the mastermind among us.”

Shuichi: “…What?”

Miu: “A-Are you already goin’ senile? I thought we agreed that there is no mastermind?”

Kokichi: “Hm, oh yeah. We did, didn’t we? If we tried to sniff out a mastermind again, we’d just repeat Kaede’s screwup.”

So clearly Kokichi still believes there’s a mastermind – which is quite a logical thing to think, since Shuichi’s reasons for dropping that theory were irrational and driven by his issues. But then Kokichi’s just going to drop it and not try and convince everyone else of that too so that they can stand a chance at finding the mastermind and stopping this game. Because, you know, that’d be helpful.

Kokichi: “Aw, man, you really don’t get it. I’m trying to get this through to everyone… If you keep saying all this uplifting stuff about working together and cooperating… then you can expect to receive some painful retaliation. Get it?”

This is Kokichi being sincere, and when he says “painful retaliation”, he means from Monokuma. Since he’s going to properly spell out his point (for once) a little bit later, I’ll talk about it more then. The short version is that it’s him being a coward, much like he just very nearly was about the Flashback Light.

Kaito: “Argh, that’s enough! I’m gonna slug him!”

Apparently Kaito has had enough of Kokichi getting in the way of everyone’s co-operation and is going to try and get his message across to Kokichi in a more direct way than just words, since words don’t seem to be working on him. But he runs away. Kaito will have to wait until later to punch him.

Ryoma: “It’s like he doesn’t even want to survive.”

Interesting observation from Ryoma! Given Ryoma’s general perceptiveness and the fact that Kokichi does indeed end up orchestrating his own death, this might not be too far from the truth. It seems plausible to me that Kokichi could have essentially fallen into despair and given up on his own survival from the moment he found himself in this killing game. He knows that if he tries to escape by committing a murder he’ll definitely get caught and executed because that’s how the game is designed, and his massive trust issues would make him convinced that any attempt to work together to escape without killing anyone will obviously fail because people will always betray each other, and if he’s not careful then someone might even stab him in the back and murder him. It takes a hell of a person to even consider formulating a plan that revolves around their own death, but it would be a lot easier for such a thing to occur to him in the first place if he was already convinced he wasn’t going to survive this anyway.

Of course, Ryoma doesn’t plan on surviving either and says as much.

Kaito: “Yeah, but the Ultimate Tennis Pro shouldn’t be saying such cowardly stuff…”

And here’s Kaito’s issues with Ryoma beginning to show. Note how he’s not disapproving of the thought of someone being a “coward” in general (remember earlier when he told everyone he wouldn’t mind if they wanted to walk away from using the Flashback Light). It’s specifically because it’s Ryoma that it bothers him. And he refers to Ryoma with his Ultimate title, like it’s less about Ryoma himself and more about the expectation that Kaito has for the person with that title, even though most people wouldn’t expect a skilled tennis player to be more or less emotionally resilient than someone with any other talent.

And then there’s the bonus scene with Tenko. Although honestly this one seems to be mostly an excuse for fanservice, albeit at least a much less thinly-veiled excuse than that other scene I could mention, so I don’t have much to say about it. I guess it also does exist to show a bit more of Kirumi, since she’s going to die this chapter.

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