#chapter 429

2nd to last color spread with our boy!

I wanna share my thoughts about the series right now but I'm also not even sure where I should start from. On one hand, I do have many scenes and moments that I enjoyed, but on the other, some choices just left me like "?????".. For example the battery of the camera dying on such an important moment, unless Toga had been saved or escaped, I don't really see the point in that?

Like in my mind, everything is telling me that she MUST have escaped and is alive, but at the same time I'm here looking at how we only have one chapter left, Deku still didn't get to talk with his mom, he will probably have a scene with Kacchan, talk about the embers, and might see their future selves... Will we even get the chance to explore anything about Toga in that case? (Unless it's left as an open ending..?)

And then in this chapter, although Uraraka cried and got comforted by Deku and eventually the rest of the class, Deku didn't talk that much about his own feelings before getting interrupted, so it's very unbelievable to me that that was enough for him to feel better? Will we get to see him open up more in the final chapter? If this is all it takes for him to move on with his feelings regarding this then I can't say that I'm feeling very fulfilled or satisfied, but I also won't bash the story and will wait for the final chapter to make up my mind.

Also, regarding Uraraka's character, I know that a LOT of my moots like her, but I was left disappointed with the conclusion to her character arc, as others have said already, I'm sure Hori didn't do it on purpose, but the way her character started, how much effort was put into making her her own person with her own goals, just to have her fail them, and then be comforted by the MC's line of "you are my hero", in the context of her having a crush on him I didn't like that at all, and again I'm sure that Hori didn't mean it this way, but it does feel like she's only allowed to succeed if it's related to the MC (and also crush), it kinda feels insulting in a way...

(Ps. Looks like another episode of tsundere YJH)

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It was my secret stash of dumplings that I made while walking on that ‘Dumpling Road’.

Yi Gil-Yeong warily eyed me but still received a dumpling anyway. He eventually bit into it. His eyes opened up real wide, his irises trembling powerfully.

“What the heck?! This is so much tastier than what I ate back in the factory!”

[A portion of the audience members are getting really curious about the taste of ‘Murim dumplings’.]

I sensed Yu Jung-Hyeok [999] flinch ever so slightly on my shoulder.

In the meantime, I handed the dumplings over to Shin Yu-Seung and Yu Jung-Hyeok as well.

That’s right, eat that damn dumpling, you bastard.

Yu Jung-Hyeok continued his pained deliberation over and over again, and in the end, brought the dumpling towards his lips very slowly. As if he was tearing into the neck of the enemy commander, he took a small bite out of it.

Yi Gil-Yeoung, Shin Yu-Seung, and I tensely observed the sight of him chewing the dumpling. Even the chef [999] on my shoulder had stopped moving and waited for the dude’s reaction.

Gulp.

Yu Jung-Hyeok finally finished swallowing his initial mouthful, then proceeded to take another bite. Very, very slowly, the frown on his forehead disappeared. His lips bobbed up and down in great haste.

The speed at which he consumed the dumpling increased. Second bite, third bite….

Eventually, his hand reached out to the second dumpling. But then, he flinched and stopped, and began glaring at me instead.

“What are you looking at?”