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EDDIE MUNSON

managed to doodle a Kenma while dealing with some art burnout soooo

Take a look at chapter 197, Kazutora was the only one who was honest with Takemichi. (This is a long post and spoilers and theories and how are you coping? You are doing right?)

They tried to look for Mikey, they get hurt. They stopped trying. I get it, pretty normal behaviour. Mikey is so lost in his own promise and he hates himself so much and he thinks he is the cause everything get destroyed. And he lost all of his f*cking family. (Life is a b*tch, Kisaki indeed.) He is not reachable anymore in his own darkness.

So:

Draken and Chifuyu and all the rest just keep lying to Takemichi. Telling him they were happy like that in this future... if they didn't want in realise to keep being part of the Toman or Mikey's friend.

If they didn't know it was their fault too for letting Mikey just go by himself with a real bad mental state and get fooled by him. Do you really think Draken was happy in Bonten future??? Without Mikey, without Emma... Without his family... And Chifuyu? Saving Mikey was Baji's promise to them before he died. He... failed... to him too.

That's not okay. Nothing is okay.

Do you think they are okay knowing their stupid and small blond motherf*cker is ruining his life forever just for them like... nothing happened here...

"He made us hate him, Takemitchy, so is okay." Pretty normal response, yeah.

Without a real reason, they lied just because they are good friends, and know the truth about the time travel sh*t and want Takemichi to stay safe and just f*cking marry the girl of his dreams since he was 14 years old. And of course. They didn't know what to do. Or what to try anymore.

BUT.

But Kazutora does.

He doesn't give a f*ck about loyalty or friendship at all. He wasn't there, he doesn't know anything so he is the only one taking this situation neutrally.

He doesn't care about this "keep Takemichi in the shadows so he doesn't hurt himself too." This is not about respecting Mikey's decision. This is not about let him be or give up for the (fake) happiness of others.

He doesn't want or need to stop trying, he owns Mikey and Baji for being alive. For forgiveness of his acts. That's why. This is the person Takemichi needs in that exact moment. Because what he is telling him, is the TRUTH. And the truth hurts, but sometimes, you need to get hurt by it to feel real.

He came back 10 years after all this crazy Bonten thing happened. And just wants the same as Takemichi.

And you know why? Because, as Takemichi does, he knows Mikey's true intentions too. And you can see that perfectly in the Booklets special episodes. When all the characters were little and he got hurt by other gang and these two came to the rescue without a think.

He doesn't just admires Mikey, he is not just an underling, he knows why Sano does this.

Mikey and Baji were the same.

The phrase:

Mikey hasn't changed at all means Kazutora remembers this. Cause this is how Mikey sees the world. How he carries everything in his back. All the problems, all the people. How he protects everyone and forget himself under that fake smile.

Both him and Takemichi knows this part of Mikey and can't be fooled by him.

Now, this is why saving Tora was so important in the beggining. Kazutora is doing the same as them, it was his turn to do the same as these two idiots did for him.

They saved him.

Because you get what you give.

Baji is dead but his words are more alive than never. And that resonates in both of them.

Is not Takemichi just wanted to ruin his life for Mikey's well being. Is not they wanted to risk their life for nothing now. Mikey was their savior when they were in their lowest point... and he has risked everything for them. They just can't forget.

"A gang where we can all risk our lives for each other. That’s the kind of gang I want" That's what Baji said.

(Chapter 198 just reiterates what I said when the gang opened the time capsule and Mikey was not there...)

Now is time. (Takemichi is forming Baji's ideal gang.)

Now the tables turns.