#reaping pride

Besides the obvious (it’s right on the summer solstice- almost opposite of Junko/Mukuro’s around the winter solstice), let’s take the numbers 6 from the month, and 21 from the day.

There’s a 6 sided die. Add up the sides: 1+2+3+4+5+6. You get 21.

Now imagine there’s a twin, a sibling with the same birthday. You have not one ‘die’, but two ‘dice’. Like the group, ‘DICE’. 

Now we add all the sides of the two dice. Here’s a nifty number: 42.

A few things about the number 42 which are really cool! First of all, it’s ‘The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life the Universe and Everything’, in reference to The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, another sci-fi oriented piece. Second, it’s a number that can be associated to ‘God’ and the ‘Universe’ (according to Kabbalah, ‘42′ is the number with which God creates the universe). 

Third... well. Taking from what I’d said before about Ouma and Shuichi having ‘opposite numbers’ associated to them - Ouma having ‘Ni shi (shi)’ as a 2 and 4, with Shuichi’s ‘shini(gami detective)’... ahem, ‘god of death’ thing being 4 and 2 - this cosmic and godly number 42 is associated to both of them as well.

Now for something wild: take Ouma’s birth month: 6. Shuichi’s birth month: 9.

6 times 9 is 42 when done in Base 13, as said in Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. For extra fun- the digital root of 13 is 4. BAD LUCK.

So, you mean to say that the outcome of one Ultimate Detective’s flawed deduction is... that the lie of a trial becomes the truth?

Parallels: ‘unconfirmed esper’ talks about a ‘promise from another timeline’

He does, and I admit that - setting Tenko’s later commentary of Shuichi ‘going astray’/’deluding himself’(JP) aside - Shuichi deluding himself to the point of, say, creating a whole persona in his head for the sake of continuing the killing game... does sound a bit strange. But the logic here is less about the idea that he ‘doesn’t think his lamentations at all’, and more about what he could do under scrutiny- reinforce to himself that he didn’t know something, whenever he feels guilt. The lack of ‘direct action’ he took is something he can easily brush over to himself as ‘incompetence’ as a way to protect himself- I think one time to get into gear regarding this psychologically, was when the spotlight was on him and he went silent for a while, some time before the protagonist switch.

I’m just here like :’) hoooh yeah SS tier mastermind amirite-

But insofar as the effect his betrayal would have if made known, Ouma has some decidedly chilling words for the first time Shuichi lies in a trial:

...with that expression there being the last little flourish he gives, to make it known that he knows he’s up to something. Notably, this is after a big sequence where a bunch of others are going ‘that’s right, we’ll believe in Shuichi!’

Of course, it’s brushed aside because Ouma too is a liar, and the conversation ended up at the correct culprit anyway. But if you had more information about the memories and the academy, would this kind of jab still mean the same?