Love and Peace!!!

And last but not least, never forget to smile!

Seeing anime onlies watch this moment and immediately think that Qifrey did it on purpose to scare coco or that he is hiding something evil that he can't let people see

Meanwhile, we manga readers now know it's a reflex to keep himself safe because of the abuse he went through before getting to the Great Hall, abuse that he doesn't even REMEMBER clearly but it is still there 20 something years later.

It is such good misdirection, makes Qifrey look insanely scary to both the audience and Coco herself, his secrets and motives still hidden and giving way to theorizing something darker or evil from him.

there has been tons of instance in the manga we see how qifrey looks when mad, angry or when he has the intent to scare someone, some examples below:

Even the anime has had the moment for it, on episode 5, putting so MUCH more tension to it

but we also know how qifrey looks when something about his past and trauma catches up to him all of a sudden.

it's been a while