#ptotn spoilers

[shewritesallnight]

AND THE PLOT FUCKING THICKENS!!!

I just finished volume 11 (only 1 left 😭)

Time for some spoilers 😏

FIRST OF ALL

I FUCKING KNEW IT!!! Owner does love Sasaki and 1000000% confessed his feelings. Aaahhhhshdjfkrkdhshqkskdjf

You read it here first

We get to see Owner in a female form which is always fun. They always slay no matter what form they are in.

Anyways to the juicy part 🧃🧃🧃

(Unknown incarnation) Sasaki to Owner: "I don't know what to think... you can't just tell me you love me outta the blue like that..."

And: "spouses... usually call each other by name, don't they?"

🤩 AAAAHHHHHHHHH

and thennnn BOOM 💣 💥

OWNER KISSES HIM

🤌💋

(then we learn that Owner can only come out at night? I never really noticed that Owner showed up only during the night. What do they do during the day??)

Also can we talk about this cover?

🗣📣 GORGEOUS

I am OBSESSED with the colors and the stained glass. Did you notice that the glass represents Owner's companions?

cherry blossoms 🌸

spider 🕷 and butterflies 🦋

maple leaves 🍁

bones ☠️

and I believe the scrolls that Owner is laying on are most likely Sasaki's old writings. Not to mention their kimono...

You can't tell me that the design doesn't make it look like a ribcage. I wonder who that could represent 🤔 😏

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There is a lot to unpack with Rei so I'll save that for another day. I can't wait for the next volume but I am terrified of it at the same time.

Freedom for baby Rei? Starting the cycle all over again? Ending the cycle?

Will Owner get their happy ending?

And what is Owner's secret? It's not them being in love with Sasaki since we established they already confessed. So WTF is it?!?!

wait Wait WAIT A DAMN MINUTE‼️

I just had a thought-

SASAKI NEVER HAD A SECRET TO GIVE OWNER

THEY HAVE KNOWN ABOUT OUR RESIDENT SKELETON BOI FOR CENTURIES

.

.

.

Are they breaking their rules just to spend time with him?

so does this mean that Owner does not have to have a true secret- instead it just needs to be something that the being/creature believes to be a secret?

I want answers but I'm not ready for it to be over 😫 💔

[c13ar]

can anyone hear me screaming

[shewritesallnight]

Ohhhhhhhhohohohohohohohoho!!!!!!

It's all coming together now!!!!

Time for a long over due rant and some theories. Volume 10 was juicy 🧃🧃🧃

Spoilers below! I'm SERIOUS do not read if you aren't caught up to volume 10. I don't want to ruin anything for you!

This madness got loooooooooooong 😭

First and foremost the time line is fucked. Good luck getting everything in order but hey, I've tried here.

Let's break it down to the basics. The way I see it, we have 3 main characters.

𖢺 Our resident skeleton boi ~ Sasaki

ຊ Our resident snake boi ~ Rei, who I will refer to as Rei (present day Slayer); and Adult Rei (past adult life)

℘ Owner 🖤

For today we are gonna focus on Sasaki and Owner with a dash of Rei

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From what I can tell, there have been 4 versions of Sasaki (that we know of)

𖢺 Oldest version: Singing Bone ~ we know this is the oldest version since Owner tells us that this is the first time they met.

𖢺 Super Old Sasaki: from volumes 7 & 9 ~ this version is the Sasaki with Adult Rei who reveals himself as a skeletal monster. Adult Rei blows him on the spot you KNOW what panel I'm talking about!

𖢺 Adult Sasaki: from volume 8 ~ this is the incarnation who was arrested for political writings and whose will-o-the-whisp moved on. He even stated himself that it was in his previous life that he was a novelist (obviously he is aware of his own reincarnations (at some point in each life))

𖢺 Then there is Sasaki ~ our present day kiddo.

What we know so far about Sasaki & Rei:

~ Sasaki & Rei have been reincarnated multiple times (tho so far we've only seen 2 reincarnations of Rei)

~ They have a history as far as their lives shown in volumes 7 & 9 (possibly more)

𖢺 Sasaki our sweet walking bag of bones does die (tho it's not clear how long each of his lives are) and then is reborn. Presumably due to Owner burying him each time.

ຊ Rei comes from a cursed family line that there are so many curses now that they must continue the family line in order to prevent the curses/malice from taking over.

ຊ In order to become an "adult" and gain control of the malice the males in the family have to eat their fathers.

What we know about Owner:

℘ They are a "trueborn monster" per the mermaid huntsman in volume 6

℘ They have no true form as mentioned by Owner multiple times thru out the series and most recently reiterated in volume 10: "long ago I was merely darkness" and that they had no face or body.

℘ But now they can manipulate their form/body (tho there is nothing under the skin) yet they can't age. We see this in volume 5 where the fox spirit stole Owner's adult body after a bet and Owner never appears as an adult.

℘ They are immortal (it seems) based off of Owner's own words in volume 7 that they "have all the time in the world"

Now the reoccuring theme of Saskai's existence is revolved around "people feeling complete by filling the void that is him". (Which I find interesting since Owner has no true form... little bit more on this at the end)

Super Old Sasaki was a student wanting to become a writer and was working on a manuscript so he frequented the Inn to focus on his writing.

Now in volume 10, when Owner employs Sasaki he starts by having him clean his old room (which has to be 100s of years old by now) I THINK Owner was hoping to maybe jog his memory and get some sort of reaction from him.

Also in volume 10, Owner tells Sasaki that he went looking for SO Sasaki/Adult Sasaki and that "No matter what form he takes I will always be there to greet him. After all, I want to keep playing together."

In a previous post I mentioned that I believe that Owner thought of Rei in a parental way and that I was unsure his thoughts on Sasaki.

My feeling now is more that Owner is in love with Sasaki's soul. Hence why they reject anyone who confesses their love to them. But they keep coming back to Sasaki during each of his lives.

Owner is also very cautious about all the Sasakis. They always come to his aid, so much so that present day Sasaki states that he's not worried about being cursed because he knows that Owner will help him.

For Rei, I'm still getting parental vibes from Owner. I also think that the only reason Owner stepped in to assist (or whatever he is doing) with Rei's family is ultimately for Sasaki. It seems that they are connected and perhaps Owner is trying to set up the breaking of the curse to free Sasaki's entanglement with it so that they can be together.

If we wanna get weird, would Owner take over Sasaki's body?? They would truly be together then- Sasaki would be "filled" and Owner would have a true body.

All in all, I absolutely love this series. The artwork BLOWS MY MIND EVERYTIME!!!! I wish we could see it animated 😩 and I'm excited to see where Matsuri takes it.

TELL US OWNER'S SECRETS!!!! 🖤

[shewritesallnight]

THANK YOU!!!

Okay so I'm not crazy, I haven't been home to flip thru past volumes to double check the day thing.

I also question if the inconsistencies are accidents or on purpose. It would make sense for them to be purposeful and a way for Owner to never give away too much information about themself 🥸

I agree that the timeline is absolutely fucked and I feel like I would need a board and string to try and piece it together.... and then probably still be wrong.

Like how many versions of Rei and Sasaki have Spider and Butterfly interacted with. I feel like I remember Spider saying they had lost count of how many times they've dealt with curses sent to kill Owner. So I assume he has seen a few, it seems to be new for Butterfly.

Then Bone Monk seems to have been one of the first companions for Owner, having met him at one of the cremations. But we don't get a clue about how many times the cycle has repeated before then.

With Snow Lady maybe she was a private guest? It does seem that Owner sometimes has guests that Spider and Butterfly are not fully aware of (I'm thinking of the flower mothers).

Again, more questions 😩

I think its time for a re-read 📖 starting from the first enigma with the knowledge I have now, I hope it would make things more clear. I'm sure there are easter eggs in earlier volumes that I would be able to dig deeper with.

I'll come back after this weekend and a refresher. I need to look more into Rei's situation as well, I feel like I'm missing something from there...

AND THE PLOT FUCKING THICKENS!!!

I just finished volume 11 (only 1 left 😭)

Time for some spoilers 😏

FIRST OF ALL

I FUCKING KNEW IT!!! Owner does love Sasaki and 1000000% confessed his feelings. Aaahhhhshdjfkrkdhshqkskdjf

You read it here first

We get to see Owner in a female form which is always fun. They always slay no matter what form they are in.

Anyways to the juicy part 🧃🧃🧃

(Unknown incarnation) Sasaki to Owner: "I don't know what to think... you can't just tell me you love me outta the blue like that..."

And: "spouses... usually call each other by name, don't they?"

🤩 AAAAHHHHHHHHH

and thennnn BOOM 💣 💥

OWNER KISSES HIM

🤌💋

(then we learn that Owner can only come out at night? I never really noticed that Owner showed up only during the night. What do they do during the day??)

Also can we talk about this cover?

🗣📣 GORGEOUS

I am OBSESSED with the colors and the stained glass. Did you notice that the glass represents Owner's companions?

cherry blossoms 🌸

spider 🕷 and butterflies 🦋

maple leaves 🍁

bones ☠️

and I believe the scrolls that Owner is laying on are most likely Sasaki's old writings. Not to mention their kimono...

You can't tell me that the design doesn't make it look like a ribcage. I wonder who that could represent 🤔 😏

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There is a lot to unpack with Rei so I'll save that for another day. I can't wait for the next volume but I am terrified of it at the same time.

Freedom for baby Rei? Starting the cycle all over again? Ending the cycle?

Will Owner get their happy ending?

And what is Owner's secret? It's not them being in love with Sasaki since we established they already confessed. So WTF is it?!?!

wait Wait WAIT A DAMN MINUTE‼️

I just had a thought-

SASAKI NEVER HAD A SECRET TO GIVE OWNER

THEY HAVE KNOWN ABOUT OUR RESIDENT SKELETON BOI FOR CENTURIES

.

.

.

Are they breaking their rules just to spend time with him?

so does this mean that Owner does not have to have a true secret- instead it just needs to be something that the being/creature believes to be a secret?

I want answers but I'm not ready for it to be over 😫 💔