Suo Hayato Arc

This chapter basically confirmed that Suo commuted between Bankoku-gai and Makochi, towns that are two hours apart, every day for years and STILL somehow found the time to:

wait.

“hole in the heart” is this a great time to call back to this panel

WBK 209+ SPOILERS

After 218 dropped I've started seeing some people that wished the story didn't jump to Sakura right away and focused more on Nirei's side of the things as he was the one that had to endure Suo's beating and departure that night. And I think that's completely valid to think!! I want to see Nirei's side too! But I feel like we're forgetting that Nirei is a character that bottles up his emotions and doesn't address them unless someone directly asks him about them (e.g. we saw in the post-KEEL fight chapters that he only folded after Suo more or less cornered him and asked what was wrong.) This combined with the fact that he always puts others before himself (e.g. #2 him still talking about Suo in 212 until Kiryu tells him to prioritize himself first) AND his low self esteem that makes himself think like he's a burden to others tells me that we still have a while until we get to how he really, truly feels about this whole situation and what Suo did to him.

thinking about how hair styling in wbk is often used for visual metaphor and sugi has his hair tucked behind his ears for a change

so im screaming cuz what the hell is this panel-