CHAPTER 127 SPOILERS + My Reactions, and Way Too Many Questions. (aka, I am being emotionally held hostage by time itself.)
Yey, Akane looking tuff this chapter, as it should... Lmao, him and Nene need a medal and a nap. Preferably at the same time.
Also...Can we please found a "The Hourglass & Red House Entity Haters Club"?
Asking for a very traumatized friend.
Okay, Akanene angst is peak guys. Truly, Aidairo ate, no crumbs left.
Nene's clear sense of commitment to Akane makes my heart ache, she literally saying "you gave me the way to save us and I still failed." That sense of guilt with all her friends when she is only a adolescent? Gut-wrenching.
And Akane… He feels it too. He feels bad for putting Yashiro in a situation that was beyond difficult, bordering on traumatic.
I just hear the phrase "I would sacrifice myself for you" or "You saved me and then I saved you" reading this chapter. Tell me that doesn't sound like a sad Aoi x Akane edit waiting to happen. AidaIro are FEEDING us emotional content, and I’m eating it up with a spoon. Aoiaoi angst? Delicious.
Okay so...This is another timeline Akane, check? ✔️
But now we’re entering questions territory.
✦Q1: How did this shift happen?
Our Nene (the one who made the deal with the hourglass) didn't make this choice. So what triggered this alternate version of Yashiro to succeed in changing the future — in this way?...
Yashiro in this timeline looks… drained. Tired? Empty? There's something deeply unsettling about her demeanor — it’s like she’s already accepted her fate. And that big eye and tentacles behind her and Aoi? Gross. Terrifying. The entity literally looks like someone put human souls in a grinder and placed the people's eyes as decoration, Which... might not be far from the truth.
✦Q2: Is anyone else surprised that Aoi and Yashiro decided to sacrifice themselves?
The Kannagis of the group — ironic, isn't it?
Yashiro has always been the type of person who will try to get out of a bad situation in the best way possible. Our Yashiro-chan who was with the hourglass even asked "what about Aoi" and she was clearly not satisfied with the answer "she didn't make it out of the house." So for this other version of her to go through with that sacrifice? Yeah, she’s definitely different. Maybe she knew this was the only path that might fix things, maybe she knew too much... — but something about it still feels… off, at least to me.
✦Q3: “The change Kako-san made was on Hanako-kun’s fourth birthday. It had to be.”
I don’t buy that. Not fully.
That statement feels like a half-truth — maybe intentionally misleading. I’m still leaning more towards the theory of 1968 being the real divergence point.
Yashiro, the TBHK warrior vs Old man and spoiled child that control past and future in 4K soon in theaters.
The plan is to fix this altered timeline — so our version of Yashiro can return to our timeline. Meanwhile, Akane’s responsibility is to prevent the festival disaster so they don’t end up stuck in a time loop. Right?
Said the ultimate simp, Akane you're a loser too. But that was so cute. 👻
Some people saying perhaps he will not be able to see her later... And If it's happen is totally about what Akane said "I have to jump back to different time, so I can stop that from happening." And then he dies somehow trying to stop this from happening again lmao. (Could his deal with the Clockkeepers mirror Yashiro’s deal with Hanako — something driven by the fact that he doesn’t have much time left just like her? Huh I like this theory)
Man, finally he is here, after one year. (I love how this could kind of refer to both Yugi's)
I highly doubt Akane messed up the time — he’s a Clockkeeper. Bro should at least knows what he's doing (If I'm wrong Akane will gain another negative point with me... Sigh)
And hey, I'm praying to be Amane, they can't make my princess Tsukasa looks like a loser.
And this panel is one of those that make me think that the idea that the change the clockkeepers made was in Amane's fourth birthday is a half-truth, i still believes that the big change has been made at 1968, somehow they made Amane able to fix the big clock and uhm...be back at the time where Tsukasa disappeared, we don't know why Amane first wanted to fix that clock, not even if it was really a spontaneous choice from him, maybe Tsukasa had told him something, just to know what his own brother would do! Furthermore, it was Kou himself who said that Amane probably didn't hated baby Tsu (That time at the Red House arc). Maybe Tsukasa wanted a proof of that love, and we can see how it ended in Hanako's timeline, It is more than clear why Tsukasa now definitely believes that Amane hates him, and it would be very difficult to get that idea out of his head...
Or maybe I'm just talking nonsense( ╹▽╹ )
✦ In Conclusion: TBHK make me ill.
And I mean that in the most affectionate, emotionally-devastated way possible.
Finally, we’re going to dive deeper into the Yugi brothers’ past — and whatever happened in that red house. I’m calling it now: whatever we learn is going to absolutely wreck us. Emotionally. Spiritually. Existentially.
And perhaps the characters too.
