This volume is full of introspection and stories from the past, thereby there is a lot of moving forward as well. It mainly focuses on our main couple, Tsukasa and Anzai, as well as Anzai’s parents, however we do see glimpses of everyone else.
Anzai finally begins to realize his own parallels between remaining in control and losing control, and what that means on both an internal level and through the help of Tsukasa, his mother and her team, on an external level too.
Anzai and Tsukasa are finally ready to have sex for the first time, and for Tsukasa, it’s her first time ever.
I really like seeing Midori’s way of coaching both of them, not as a researcher, but as an unfortunately estranged mother figure who cares. Honestly, there’s nothing about this volume that I dislike. I feel as though it’s gone back to how it was when I picked up the first volume, though it’s developed past horror.
It’s thrilling, it has some action, backstory, mystery, plotty government stuff, but most of all, it’s still an intense romance. And with all the hardships and sadness abound, everyone is finding themselves in someone else’s arms. I really can’t wait for the next volume, but I really loved this one. And I really loved the story of Midori and Tamaki, so much so that I even read it twice before finishing this volume.