when you’re taking the test and don’t know the answers: 

when you finish the test, wallowing in self-pity:

THE USHIWAKA AND IWA-CHAN INTERACTION WE NEEDED BUT DON’T DESERVE SHDJDJ WHAT GOES ON IN THE HAIKYUU UNIVERSE

This chapter has me on the edge of my seat and fuck, is it cruel.  (There might be some lil inaccuracies in my translations)

Dabi tells Tokoyami what Hawks did to Twice.

Dabi says: “He is way dirtier than any of us.”

- The used word sounding to me like something really disgusting to describe a mangy dog.

And Dabi’s face looks soft saying this horrible shit. He looks almost… amused.

But the one thing that hit me the hardest (right in my fucking guts, guys) were these little panlels, the conversation had lead up to…

Seconds before the tension snapps:

Because Hawks doesn’t deny it!

He says: “Toko… Yami…”.

Hawks doesn’t defend his actions. The one thing he tries to say in this moment, is Tokoyami’s civilian name. Because he regrets that Tokoyami, (the one kid that looked up to him, the one character he tried to guide and help-) this kid finds out about Hawks beeing… “dirty”.

Of course, Tokoyami doesn’t move his eyes from the big bad threat that is Dabi, because the kid is a hero-in-training and ready to bleed to safe Hawks… But-

Can you see how his ‘mouth’ trembling? - Because it hits him. This 15 year old kid just learned that his mentor (and friend) lied and murdered.

And then you see Hawks’ face more clearly. Exhausted- okay. Scarred- yes. Pained- sure. But the increddible thing most clear in his eyes?

It’s sadness.

He looks at Dabi. And finally - after all these wordless panels - we see Dabi’s face:

And Dabi doesn’t look ‘amused’ anymore. (I have a really hard time reading his expression here.)

Dabi attacks them again.

And Hawks doesn’t even flinch. He’s calm as fuck and stays completly professional, perfectly predicting the gap in Dabi’s blasts.

Hawks litterally says: “Instead of finishing me off, he talked to me.”

And then: “Dabi talks to you, because he needs more time. Maybe because… His own flames weaken him.”

(How does Hawks come to that conclusion?

Hawks is extremly intelligent and he worked close enough with Dabi to notice- Sure, but the prefect accuracy in which he can predict the moment of “overheating”?! -

It’s like he already knew more details beforehand…)

Due to Hawks, they acutally escape Dabi, but- and at this panel I lost my shit-  because:

Yes.

Yes.

Dabi is imitating Endeavor.

Dabi.The guy who’s only meaning in life is to take down his father Endeavor at all costs, USES ENDEAVOR’S IDEA, to reach that goal.

I love that. I love this irony. It feels like the plot did a backflip and kicked me in the face with a burning… hot-topic-shoe.

Yeah. To conlcude everything: This chapter was… lit.

Compilation of Dark Shadow crying because this poor little being of darkness incarnate is so hurt by Dabi’s flames and he’s the embodiment of all the distress sadness and panic that Tokoyami is going through but can’t express until they’re out of the mansion because he’s trying so damn hard to keep his composure so that he can face off against this hella dangerous villain at a disadvantage and escape—

YOU GUYS D:

SO MUCH TO DIGEST IN THIS CHAPTER D:

What matters most is that Tokoyami got Hawks out of that mansion, my poor bird

HES ALIVE I KNOW HE IS TAKE HIM TO SAFETY. SAVE HIM!!

Also Tokoyami telling Hawks that he isn’t dirty, that he believes in him… he cannot die. MY HEART

Hawks taught him that if he has wings, he should fly. Don’t restrict to yourself to the ground! And Tokoyami took that to heart to make Black Fallen Angel (with the irony of the name, as inspired by Hawks, only ever getting deeper).

But now we get here, where Tokoyami can use his “wings” for the very same person who was grounded and defenseless, the person who told him to fly.

SHUTHSIFUHDGO P THATS SO FUNNY 

I don’t normally do this but it has to happen, so I’m going through everything we got.

I’ve waited?? So long for Tokoyami and Dabi to face off?? Ever since the forest raid arc I’ve been waiting. And now that it’s here I’m just so scared for my bird boy. Look! Tokoyami is trying so hard to keep it together, but he’s facing off against a top tier villain while having to defend his mentor, who’s on the verge of death. He’s sweating and Dark Shadow is crying (from the light? Or because he’s more emotionally expressive than Tokoyami?).

Dabi’s still smiling. And I’m sure that’s part of him still grieving. But he’s also not about to let the flames die down. If another bird wants to get roasted, then who is he to let that chance slide? Ahhh, but I really wanna know if he knows who Tokoyami is — either from the forest or the sports festival. Or maybe Hawks has told him about his intern before? Either way, that fire must be really hard to avoid when you’re trying to protect someone.

But he gets out! It didn’t register at first that that’s the mansion down there — Tokoyami takes OFF into the sky on his own wings with Black Fallen Angel and gets to be Hawks’s wings this time. If that isn’t the most poetic shit then I don’t know what to tell you.

Hawks. You do NOT look good.

TOKOYAMI. YOU DID SO WELL. You kept it together and got out of a dangerous situation with your feathers in tact! That’s more than Hawks can say right now...

The whole thing between Dabi and Hawks has been, for me, the most wild thing this series has thrown at me. And there’s a lot of opinions that have formed over it. So I’ll end this here: I really hope for Tokoyami’s sake that Hawks makes it through this. I don’t want another Nighteye where a character I love is left without a mentor, and Hawks has been good for Tokoyami, even if he’s done a lot of not-so good things.

Towa, Setsuna, and Moroha are half-demon girls with blood from both youkai and humans.

Towa and Setsuna are twin girls who became separated when caught in a forest fire when they were young. Towa passes through the tunnel that crosses time and space, traveling from the feudal period to the present era. Raised by the Higurashi family, she grew up to be a Junior High School girl who excels at martial arts. Meanwhile, her sister, Setsuna, who was left in the warring states period, was raised under Kohaku who has become head of the Demon Slayers. Moroha is the daughter of Inuyasha and Kagome. As a bounty hunter, she has taken on the nickname “Monster Slayer Moroha” and is devoted to exterminating demons.

It’s been 10 years since they were split up. The historical trees tunnel that connects time and space has been reopened, and Towa is reunited with Setsuna in the present day era. However, Setsuna does not remember Towa for some reason. Together, Setsuna, Towa, and Moroha join to regain their past in Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon

Higurashi Towa, 14

A 14 year old female Junior High School student living in the modern era. 10 years ago, she slipped through the tunnel from the feudal era to the Reiwa era. She was helped by Kagome’s brother, Sota, and raised as a daughter. Excelling at martial arts, she often finds herself entangled in fights with delinquents, and has had to transfer schools several times. Now she has transferred to St. Gabriels, an all girls school. In the present, she meets Setsuna and Moroha. To get back the memories of Setsuna, they must return to warring states period. She finds men’s clothing is easier to fight in. Actually, she is the daughter of Sesshomaru who remains in the feudal era.

Setsuna, 14 

14 years old, she makes a living slaying demons as part of the Demon Slayers led by Kohaku. When she was 4 years old, she was separated from her twin sister. 10 years later, along with Moroha, she slips into the present era and is reunited with Towa. However, she has no memory of her childhood because she was robbed of her reality in dreams [t/n: they say here 夢の胡蝶に眠り and I believe it is a reference to 莊子 Zhūangzi, a Chinese philosopher and his butterfly dream. “Once upon a time, I, Zhuangzi, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Zhuangzi. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man. Between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a distinction. The transition is called the transformation of material things.”] She doesn’t believe Towa is her sister. When she regains sleep, she returns to the feudal era…She inherited Sesshomaru’s calm disposition. 

Moroha, 14 

Absolutely no one:

Not a single soul:

Inuyasha in 2020: