#ane 107

Hey Anon! And same for Yuri, I absolutely love her when I couldn’t stand her in the anime, which is why I’m really enjoying this huge flashback! 

Tbh, Yuri was a question mark I was really scared to ever see being addressed in the manga after what the anime showed us of her character. She’s barely mentioned for so long too that when she’s finally hinted at for the first time…

I remember the fandom’s huge (positive) reaction to that. 

Then we got ch89, which was the first time we saw her in the manga thanks to Shura’s flashback…

and the fact that she and Shiro seemed to have these complicated romantic subtones between them pleased me a lot, so I stopped being scared of manga!Yuri possibly being too similar to anime!Yuri. 

The current flashback presents her as a kind-hearted, strong and brave woman, which is something I will never dislike anyway, even if me loving her will just make it really harsh for my heart when she is to die. :/ 

So yeah, Yuri is amazing and I love the fact that Rin, who was so scared to know anything about her since he could guess this wouldn’t be a happy story, came to love her too almost instantly. 

But I’m scared to witness Rin witnessing everything that has yet to happen. T_T

Otherwise, besides Yuri who was really one of the biggest mysteries, I don’t think the flashback brought us anything surprising since it is all about tying the different plot points. I do think we’re in for surprising plot twists, but in my opinion it will be about how the twins came to be born and the Blue Night mainly.

Like, clearly, Shiro decided to raise the boys because he loved Yuri. He may have tried to justify it differently to other people, just like Mephisto, because presenting the boys as weapons for the Order was the only way to guarantee their survival, but this is about Yuri first and foremost and I love how the flashback is slowly building up to that…

Because I think these conclusions are something that Shiro was told by Yuri as she died, or something that he came to understand by himself after she passed away and he decided to raise the twins for her (or for both of them and as a huge ‘fuck u’ to Section 13, idk). 

And that’s why this whole flashback is killing me. Satan may be the twins’ biological dad, but the main reason the boys are who they are now is because Shiro and Yuri loved each other (and actually I have trouble understanding why some readers see Satan/Yuri in a positive light, but this isn’t the point).  

It’s @blueexorshit who made me realize that as Satan claims that Yuri belongs with him, she hesitates a second before saying okay because…

…she thinks about Shiro and I died inside when I read that.

One thing I think some readers (Satan/Yuri shippers mainly) may have gotten wrong is that Yuri didn’t go to Satan or said “okay” about staying with him because she’s in love with him. I mean, sure, she still sees him as Rinka, a precious friend

but what she’s after by literally sacrificing herself is…

saving people from him. Because for her that’s what an exorcist’s job is all about (see her argument about that with Shiro in ch102) and also because that way she can protect all the other people she cares about (like Rick and Shiro of course).

Anyway, sorry, I don’t know why I turned this answer into a Shiro/Yuri essay, but… wait actually I think that’s what I found the most surprising about the current flashback. xD I was expecting answers obviously, but of the same tones than those Mephisto gave to Lightning and Suguro before. 

Instead, Sensei decided that her answers were to be given by focusing on what sort of dynamic went on between Satan/Yuri/Shiro. So I really wasn’t expecting to have so many feelings about Shiro/Yuri or to realize that the fact they loved each other…

…basically led to the whole plot of this series, even if they were out of luck and that didn’t end happily for them.

It’s both beautiful and tragic and we’re not even there yet. ;_; Even Shiro picking up girls that you mentioned is something that we got a throwback on, since he clearly stopped doing that (maybe by the time he started to fall in love with Yuri) + years later he also advised Shura not to do the same (ch78).

Everything is being tied together and I love that and the way Sensei chose to show it to us (and Rin). Still expecting plot twists though, as I said (like Yuri running away because she realizes her sons are to become vessels or because Satan will try to kill powerless!baby Yukio, idk, anything or even how this all ties to Mephisto’s plans), so there may be more surprising answers coming towards us. We’ll have to see. :)   

Amongst other things I found particularly interesting was the focus on Shemihaza out of all the Grigoris, since I believe like many others that it is related to Shiemi’s arc, as well as the introduction of almost all the other Baals (we’re only missing Beelzebub), because this is also relevant to the current timeline that Rin left behind for a little while.

I’m also very curious about seeing Angel in the past, or what this guy…

was up to, being by Lucifer’s side to protect him, since we know Mephisto and Lightning are still after another traitor who helped/still helps the Illuminati. 

And the thing is, I don’t trust that Jeremiah dude in the slightest considering how happy he is to see Shiemi again when he’s literally robbing her of her freedom in the present timeline…

As for Arthur, I don’t believe in his amnesia explanation and that’s why I want to see what happened to him. 

If he truly was a Lucifer clone of Section 13, then he has a lot of reasons to pretend not remembering anything while plotting his revenge against Mephisto and the higher ups. His distaste of Shiro doesn’t help his case, since we know that Shiro ended up taking Mephisto’s side by choosing to raise the twins. 

It was also very interesting to understand where all the guys who helped Shiro raise the twins came from…

and finally, I’m curious to find out if Shura being “abandoned” by Shiro is pre or post Blue Night, as in:

did he really jump on the first chance he got to leave her behind?

or did he realize Yuri was right and maybe, as he got the Koma sword and the order to kill Yuri/Satan’s kids, he decided he couldn’t get her involved?

or did he decide to leave her behind because he took on raising the twins and getting Shura involved was out of question there again?

Because I do think that Shura ended up being like a daughter for Shiro, she was really like an introduction to him becoming the twins’ father, so him leaving her behind (which created a lot of resentment in her) might have a more significant side to it. Or not, we’ll see. xD

Aaaaand I think that’s it! Sorry for rambling. ^^” I hope this answers your question. 

i posted on twitter a thread about my thoughts on the recent chapter, check it out! @ pinkheadshima

Hey Anon! And well…

Hopefully, you’re not just learning that Yuri will not survive the Blue Night or whatever else happened 16 years ago. x)

More seriously, I’d say Satan is the one who most likely killed her, yes, whether he meant to truly do it this one time or by accident.

If not Satan, then another option is someone from the Order: maybe Jenny, or Abel, or Drac. Or that dude in charge of Section 13 who doesn’t give a damn about humans. There is a lof of candidates. And then Satan’s fury after Yuri’s death possibly led to the Blue Night and him destroying his vessel entirely. 

If Satan is the one who killed her (whether accidentally or not), maybe it came from a disagreement between them about the twins. Satan literally said that the boys were made “on a whim”…

most likely in case he wanted to see if Yuri carrying a baby could be useful as a new vessel for him. 

And then maybe Yuri rebelled against the fact that one of her sons was going to be Satan’s new vessel (Rin)…

…or maybe Satan will try and get rid of “weak” baby Yukio, who didn’t show anything special till fairly recently. An idea like that.

However if Yuri was killed by someone from the Order, then I’m expecting that Shiro refused to use the Koma sword when he found out Yuri was the one he was going to face and that’s when the Order launched a literal witch hunt after her (a little like what happened in the anime). 

To be honest, it’s kinda easy to see Satan as the one responsible for Yuri’s death, because we still have a love triangle going between him, Yuri and Shiro at this point and he’s the one with the most toxic behavior. In my opinion, the cliffhanger of ch107 is Yuri kinda sacrificing herself…

because she wants to help Satan with his decaying body 

but mostly she wants to stop the threat he is towards humans, both as an exorcist and for the sake of the other people she cares about. 

…but since it’s not exactly done out of love for Satan (even if I believe she does still care a lot about the Rinka he used to be), there is a possibility that Satan will realize that Shiro is still a “threat” he needs to destroy and that, too, might be something that will create a disagreement between him and Yuri. 

Besides, I’m not sure that spending her life in some sewers will please Yuri that much on the long run, especially since there are people she cares about outside and she cried when she decided to leave them:

So that too, Yuri being unable to abandon everything for Satan’s sake, might anger him at some point. 

Overall my point is that he’s not exactly the most rational and gentle guy around, so I can’t say I trust him to make Yuri happy. And I doubt her death was only the Order’s fault even if there is a big chance they probably didn’t help her situation. 

Last possibility would be that Yuri carrying powerful half-demon babies, namely Rin having inherited Satan’s flames, slowly destroyed her body and it ended up causing her death. 

After all, it took some training for Rin to control his own flames and even in ch98 the doubt remained as to whether he’d die or not without the seals, so one can imagine that as a baby not yet restrained by Mephisto, he possibly tired his mama during the pregnancy and that could be…

one of the facts from the past that Rin is very scared to face. 

I honestly just hope Yuri found a way to live through all this as best as she could. I’m sure she loved her sons, even if she didn’t get to see them growing up. I’m also still waiting on some throwback to Oku and why he left the Order, because Yuri and Shiro (though he’s more aware of the reality than she is) need to acknowledge that this organization is crappy. 

Not gonna lie Anon, I’m scared to see what will happen to Yuri. I’m sure it will downright heartbreaking and unfair, especially after Sensei spent many chapters depicting her as a lovable and brave woman. 

TL;DR I don’t want to cast Satan as the guilty party behind Yuri’s death too soon, because he does care about her in his own way (even if that doesn’t make him a good guy) and Section 13 remains full of assholes. 

However, the fact remains Satan can act aggressively, even towards Yuri, so I wouldn’t exclude him as one reason why she’s dead. 

If not him, then someone from Section 13 or the Order in general, because of something resembling a witch hunt.

And if it’s neither, then I’d vouch for her death to be linked to being pregnant with Satan’s sons, namely Rin and his flames.