#prefacing this with the fact that i woke up this morning. saw ominous messages from my friend regarding the event. immediate dread

[it-came-autumnally]

mizuki 5 rambles/reactions under the cut

so! full disclosure. yes I did get spoiled as I usually do but as a result when I was reading I was just in shambles at some lines. In particular:

TL Credit: Puroeng, on YT (Ch 1 and Ch3)

like man. they all tried so hard. despite her fears mizuki really, truly, wanted to do this herself. rui wished for it. meiko stopped kaito for it. and she got so close too!!!!!!!! and yet in the end what foils it all is mizuki rejecting ena's help (in searching for the nurse). there is something so poetically cruel there

TL Credit: pingudrum8661 (Doc)

and these too….. pain. mizuki wants so so so badly to stay with everyone. I know she says something similar in previous events but it just stings every time it comes up. and then ena's comment about the "what's about to happen" vibe… well!!!! something not good!!!!!

and it's so so evil how they flash through all of their old memories and that's evil on its own. but it ends with ena's untrained for mizu2, only to show the untrained for mizu5 right after; of course everything about that is intentional. look at them side by side:

both of these moments take place on the same rooftop, at the same time of day. both of them irrevocably affect mizuki, but in completely different ways -- ena on the rooftop looks like this. ena on the rooftop looks like that. they're both ena on the rooftop, but everything is different. we've come full circle, but in a way that is for the worse.

finally there's the hallway scene... the VAs were not kidding with their comments. they really did go all out and it completely made my heart sink to see mizuki purposefully escape ena's grasp, leaving her to run and ena to fall down while they both cried

pingudrum8661 (Doc) // discord screenshot is my live reaction

god. what an event. i am more than used to cliffhangers (trails fan) but this was! a way to end!!!! HELLO!!