i am a sucker for emotional pain and going through both hinako’s hopelessness and shiori’s inner turmoil is the exact angst that makes this story so well crafted and intricate. easily my current favorite volume of this series!
Okay, so two emotional support Eldritch Horrors go visit a zoo and have a chat about the merits of not eating the humans they've grown rather fond of. In Miko's case that includes ALL of them but for Shiori, well she just has one certain very special girl in mind...
Unfortunately, thanks to a blabber two mouth woman, Shiori is now in the proverbial doghouse with Hinako and is desperately trying to come up with some damage control. With that in mind, she confesses to Miko her true reasons for coming to the coastal home of Hinako and what her REAL relationship and feelings towards her precious human girl are.
This volume explores Shiori's past and reveals that this fish girl has been around for a very loooong time. Granted, she mostly lived through the Centuries as a terrifying wandering sea creature who ate humans but she was also trying in her own awkward not so murderous way to reach out for a connection.
Sadly, she kinda sucked at it and it all blew up in her face. Literally.
Many years later, after surviving such a traumatic experience, Shiori found herself under the care of a young Hinako who stumbled upon her wounded monstrous body and kindly nursed her back to health by feeding her junk food. Charmed by the child's kindness and fearless innocence, Shiori decided to bless Hinako with a single drop of her blood. This was to both provide protection and preserve the one human that actually reached out to her.
But as the old adage goes, 'No Good Deed Goes Unpunished' and unfortunately for both Shiori and Hinako they soon learn they are not exempt from that.
Hasta este momento, me estaba pareciendo un poco pesado que en cada volumen se apareciese un nuevo monstruo que quisiese comerse a Hinako. Así que, como entenderéis, este volumen me ha sabido a gloria. Por fin parece que algo se empieza a cocer entre las protagonistas, sumándose a que ya conocemos porque Shiori aparece de la nada obsesionadísima con Hinako.
Me ha encantado el Lore de ellas dos, pero lo de que ella no se acuerde…😭. Honestamente espero que la historia deje de enredarse en personajes secundarios que no aportan mucho a la trama (incluida la amiga), y que podamos ver ese desarrollo romántico.
No suelo ser yo muy fan del yuri en general, pero está interesante y la verdad sí que me intriga por donde está yendo la historia, aunque es eso, a nivel general se enrolla mucho en cosas que no me importan tanto. Aún así este volumen 10/10.
If the flashback were shown as the prologue in v1, my thoughts on this series would've been totally different. Better. But choosing the order to be like this … only makes me hate Shiori for her selfishness. Especially in ch27. That could've been the perfect ending.
I really hope Hinako gets her wish granted by the end of this series.
shiori gave her blood to hinako so she could live a long and happy life, protected from yokai, because despite wanting to devour her, she didn't want to lose the light hinako possessed. she wanted to keep Hinako close. 😭 and hinako is alive thanks to shiori, and all she wanted was to have died with her parents. ahhh the angst.
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