Dia☽☾

remember that time renji deduced nanoka was mao’s weakness? well…

if we agree Otoya is basically a mini Mao in his purest form and everything he says, Mao thinks, then:

this is so cute bc Mao can’t believe he’s never complimented Nanoka before this moment. But that’s bc Otoya is always doing it, but Mao is thinking it and probably felt like he was telling her when it was Otoya 😭😭😭

and a bonus thought that Mao has but doesn’t say out loud:

AND HES AWARE OF IT TO SOME EXTEND LATER ON

LIKE WHAT DO YOU MEAN "OOPS"?? TELL US MORE😭

Just look at him, so soft n squish.

Let Nanoka attend a ball please ;;;^;;;

Do we think Mao can handle alcohol?

yurako was almost onto something, a+ for effort, but she wouldn’t have been able to kill byoki anyway since his body isn’t complete. he can’t die without his body.

also byoki doesn’t give a fuckkk what happens to mao. if anything, byoki actively wants mao to die. he makes it sound like mao can simply tap out at any point, which, while technically true, would be convenient for byoki and byoki only.

we gotta remember that as soon as byoki’s body leaves mao he’s going STRAIGHT for nanoka. so whenever they do get to that point they have to plan it in such a way that byoki leaves mao’s body and is killed before he can reach nanoka.

this chapter reminds us that nanoka is being watched, always. he always knows where she is, and when she’s in danger/at any risk of being unable to become his vessel. mao too, for that matter. this includes every single blood transfusion between mao and nanoka as well. he is constantly aware of their movements, watching and waiting for his chance. literally all he cares about is his own agenda and survival.

50/50 chance that mao dies immediately after releasing byoki’s body… yeah that makes sense. i also think there’s a 50/50 chance byoki actually knows exactly what would happen, but he’d rather they fuck around and find out themselves bc it doesn’t change the fact that he’ll get to jump into nanoka’s body right after, and mao will no longer have superhuman abilities on his side. he also may not be able to use hagunsei at that point. but he WILL be able to use the spear of taima! and that means we have to have faith in daigo…. oof

as for the business with sana’s heart… hmmm. we’ve seen it’s ability to purify yurako enough to heal her outer appearance, and i’m sure it also purifies her own heart somewhat. it could be attempting to purify byoki. or maybe our girl is about to show up and stop the whole fuckin show IDEK ANYMORE

mao, pls show up 🥺

p.s. i mentioned in a reddit comment last week how it’s mildly infuriating for nanoka to not have a distress beacon to send to mao in situations like these. i’m still mad about that - if not more so - after this chapter

And yeah, he does not seem to care about Mao atp he was like "he can give back the body and return to being regular person at anytime, will he live afterwards?🤷🏼‍♀️" i do think he cares about Nanoka in his own fucked up way (maybe even used to care about Mao) its hard to say what his feelings are tho i like to think he at least cared about Sana

I do also think the heart is either trying to purify Byouki or that Sana will appear, either in spirit form like Masago or (someone on twitter said it) she might posses Yurako's body (i mean she is conveniently passed out right now)

They let him get through the whole thing just to be like "yeah we know"

literally had no idea what he was getting into :/

*meets natsuno nearly 60 chapters after her first appearance* she completed a whole quest in that time

*meets yurako over 200 chapters after her first appearance*