That's why I don't want Yuu and Hikari to find her. I don't want her to "be saved" I want her to grow up a bit and own what she's done and make the proactive move to repair the relationships. Like I'd love more backstory but I wonder if that's why her middle school friends are so done w/ her.At this point, I want her to run into both Yuu and Hikari and start the healing process because I'm so done with this woe is me Yami bullshit.
Which to be fair, I'm maybe wrong and the passive voice is just a translation quirk.Classes at school, chatting with friends, going out on weekends—student things…
No, just normal, human things like that—
All of those have been removed from my life.
There's a bit of self destruction there:She is just wandering around, but she is ready to vent her frustrations at anyone who approaches her.
All I’m doing is provoking people, angering them—
Playing a game of chicken with myself, wondering when I’m finally going to screw up.
When I’m going to destroy myself.
Yami isn't going to school so I doubt her school would care if someone did report her.I guess it's good those guys backed off but you'd think she'd be reported for wandering around past curfew considering how strict some schools are but i guess she is the school's 'outcast/delinquent'
And isn't her mom like, dying...? or i guess just sickly and in an extended hospital stay. I mean, i admit i'm not that close with my mother but i'd prolly not care about friends/romance drama and try to find a job to save up/pay for the hospital bills and all (although it shouldn't be a kids responsibility to pay for their parents like that but still [wonder if she qualifies for welfare living alone.])
My translation of the chapter might not be 100% accurate but it gave me the following:That's not the goal. She is just wandering around, but she is ready to vent her frustrations at anyone who approaches her.
All I’m doing is provoking people, angering them—
Playing a game of chicken with myself, wondering when I’m finally going to screw up.
When I’m going to destroy myself.
Doing this crap every day, of course there’ve been times someone tried to hit me.
Times someone tried to drag me somewhere dark.
When that happens, I bite them as hard as I can, or grab a rock and swing it—
Barely escaping by a hair’s breadth.
Which means tomorrow—or hell, even right now—
There’s every possibility I get beaten to a pulp or messed up beyond repair.
But so what…?
Yeah…
This is my routine now.
Pathetic, awful, ugly—
This way of living… I repeat it every single day.
Her mom isn't dying, she's recovering from a suicide attempt. The mom is well enough to argue with Yami every night according to Yami's thoughts in this chapter. Also, her mother and her apparently have a ton of money from the step father divorcing the mom.
Pretty much the same thing tbhSo if all you do is read the manga, it looks like Yami is having a temper tantrum and just lashing out but if you read the novel it's clear that Yami wants to self destruct.
Yep, this somehow become a novel ad manga.That's another problem I have with this whole thing - with the shortening of the manga chapters a lot of what's shown in the novel is just left out. So if all you do is read the manga, it looks like Yami is having a temper tantrum and just lashing out but if you read the novel it's clear that Yami wants to self destruct.
Her mom has been written as the sterotypical bad manga mom - self absorbed, neglectful, dives hard into romantic relationships where she gets all clingy. Like fighting w/ her daughter is probably the distraction for being single.You'd think she'd 'calm down' after a suicide attempt/not have it in her to keep arguing with her daughter
Yeah it's very not healthy that it seems like her only real attachments are to people who she sees as her savior and rescuer.To the chapter, the girl needs help, not more playing house.