I have procrastinating on writing this since chapter 275 came out. So here we go.
Why did Takemichi's "friendship is magic" worked.
Well, I have two theories about this, and no this isn't Mikey cares about Takemichi more or anything like that. He loves all his friends.
It's because Takemichi is a Timeleper.
The root of the dark impulses is the curse of the homeless time leaper who was probably also cursed by his predecessor.
This curse seems to be linked with timeleaping. Maybe because this curse was given by a timeleaper it can be broken by a timeleaper.
You may be wondering why didn't the curse break earlier? This isn't the first time Takemichi tried to save Mikey. Well, I wondered that at first as well and almost scrapped this theory but then I remembered that Takemichi wasn't aware of the curse. At first, he thought the problem was Kisaki.
Side theory here: Remember how unusual Kisaki's death was? Truck-kun came out of nowhere.
Takemichi said this before
What if he cursed him? That's why he died? What if the "like it or not, this is the final resort" was not referring to the gun but the curse?
After Kisaki died, Takemichi found out it was Mikey's impulses that were the problem but he didn't know what that was. What if when he was aware of the problem his powers automatically reacted like with the curse on Kisaki?
Maybe he needs to know what he wants at that moment. He wanted Kisaki to die, that's why Kisaki got cursed and died. He wanted to break the curse that's why it was broken. Cursing and breaking the curse are linked to time leaping that's why Takemichi was the only one who could do it.
That is the end of this theory. The next one....
Friendship isn't the answer. The curse is not broken.
The main point of the curse is to make people suffer right?
So, what if the curse isn't gone? What if it wants Mikey to see what 'he' did and suffer more?
This is the first time in this timeline that "Mikey" killed someone close to him. Many people close to Mikey died, Mikey's parents, Shinichiro, Baji, Emma, and Draken. But none of the deaths were directly caused by him.
This is the first death of a loved one by his hands for this Mikey.
We know when his dark impulses take over he doesn't realize what is happening. He sees things but doesn't understand.
From what I can understand these dark impulses are a completely different entity and this entity wants Mikey to suffer.
How can Mikey truly suffer without seeing and fully understanding what 'he' did? He killed one of his best friends, one of the people he promised to protect.
In conclusion I think the curse wanted to make Mikey suffer more so it gave Mikey control for a while. And from what I can see it worked, look at Mikey screaming and crying.
I personally like the 2nd theory more. Can't wait for chapter 276. It's probably out already lol. Anyway, bye and have a good day.
