I saw this on twitter and I thought, huh, they're right. What could it mean, indeed.
Then it hits me.
When Asa remembered how her mother died, her hair was short.
Wasn't she in the end year of elementary school/first year of middle school when the typhoon devil incident happened, though? He mother died in that incident, right?
But somehow she said her high school uniform was bought by her mother before she died?
And she dreamt about chasing down her mother in the alleyway, with her high school uniform and her current long hair.
It's odd.
How come the mother know which high school Asa will go to? Is it in her will or something, that Asa will go to the school of her choice? Is it because that HS used to be the HS the mother went to, so she wanted Asa to continue her legacy or smth? But, wasn't their house got completely destroyed by the typhoon? How come she has anything left to live on her own? How did she retrieve her high school uniform, shouldn't it be destroyed already? And what about the money. How did she get enough money to sustain herself. Did she manage to retrieve the mother's atm, bank account, and/or hanko or something? But how?? Also, didn't Asa had to live in an orphanage for awhile? How did she manage to earn an apartment and live alone there, when she didn't do any side hustle with good money (like a private devil hunter or smth)? Is the government's help for the devils' victims really that good? Or am I missing something from the manga.
Something just doesn't add up.
Chances are, there's a gap in Asa's memory, between the time in the orphanage and the time in high school. My theory is, Asa's mother was actually alive at that time. She returned to pick up Asa from the orphanage, and they lived together for awhile. But Asa's mother has completely changed. Maybe she had to earn money by becoming a prostitute; it'd explain why Asa is so disgusted by sex. Maybe her mother has changed and became more toxic, even abusive. But Asa endured it all out of her guilt for not being able to rescue her mother at that time. Plus, she's the only family she had left. Asa endured and endured,until something big happened, Asa was running down the alleyway, trying to catch her mom. Something even more traumatizing happened. After that, her memory got cut off and she returned to her everyday life, this time alone, with the old memory that she killed her mother in a Typhoon Devil incident. Heck, maybe the chickens she stepped in in her dreams are the representation of her mother's clients she has killed/stepped on (not saying her mother fucked with chickens, though. I'm saying like, yknow, since chickens are beloved by humans just like the chicken devil, maybe the depiction is not far off).
Idk. I just know that something doesn't add up. I'm just putting it out there, until the new chapter arrives.
