Thank you very much @Ik6n. — both for the translation, and for posting these together. It was an excellent choice to do so.
My brain would have run wild wondering which trope was being invoked (I'm dying, I have some horrible secret like being the reason your mom is always sick, I realized only...
Fair enough, and my bad for reading too much into a single word choice.
But it's worth note that, although people have been speculating that her brother (Mitsuha‡) is Clover almost since he first appeared… for quite a long time, people have also been talking about the method and reasoning...
I'm one of the earliest folks commenting and expounding on it. Possibly the earliest? I don't know, and it's never mattered enough for me to dig in to find out.
But even if I'm the earliest, it'd be weird to call it "my" theory. No matter who was "First post!", I'm sure the notion was nurtured...
Thank you much for the chapter… and I loved the use of Japanese characters that resembled English letters to recreate it at the end!
For anyone upset about the feel of translating the English to Japanese, it could be worse: I loved the scene anyway, but I'll never forget a "Say what?" physical...
I feel your last sentence way too much. It feels like our society has gone from "mean" to "callously cruel" to "an infernal juggernaut crushing / chewing up anyone who gets too close to one of its gears or treads, or who is adjudged guilty by our neo-feudal oligarchy of not contributing enough...
"That's so outrageous of me [to show you full frontal]!"
"W-… well, actually… I guess we're both in the same boat…"
(could also translate as "that goes both ways")