The funniest part about his ability is that it is actually kind of like the infamous King Crimson.
The way I understood it is thus:
When he closes his eyes, he gets an instantaneous vision of the next ten seconds. He can use his own actions before that activation to influence what happens...
My guess is the mother acts as a stand-in for any princes too young to fully participate. Though it's an interesting thought. It might also be a lie/ruse by Kurapika, and the ritual automatically signs up everyone who meets the selection criteria.
This might actually be the absolute dumbest thing in Baki yet. There's been plenty of dumb shit, but nothing quite so pointless, silly, and yet played perfectly straight as some kind of badass maneuver. Him "killing" the fucking machine for getting cocky is just the icing on the idiot cake.
It was a pretty confusing one even if you read it while it was actively coming out. There's a bunch of people caught up in an extremely convoluted tangle of friendship and romance, and a good few of them have strange abilities that allow them to perceive emotional states and stuff from others...
Look, all I'm saying is that I didn't tell some rando online to torture/kill themselves just because I didn't like the cut of their jib. I'd call that unbalanced behavior at least, unhinged at worst, but I'm willing to leave it at unbalanced. The "content of their message" was also literally...
See, this kind of overly dramatic attitude is exactly why you need a rational dude to come in and cool tempers! Getting all heated, making mid-2000's-era internet edgelord comments over innocuous jokes. So emotionally unbalanced, gee whiz!
I'm sure you're aware of the irony that you're a reading a manga in which that very thing has happened multiple times already (the man stepping in to get these two idiots on track bit, obviously), yes? Like, the very story you're reading has set ample precedent. Surely you wouldn't make such an...
Of course not, but I'm still allowed to get sassy at it. Plus, this is some weaksauce drama, because there's nothing actually going on, just our protagonists doing that thing where they're both quietly seething over something utterly inconsequential, but refuse to be the first one to address it...
This situation desperately needs a man to step in and take charge, provide some structure, without all this overly emotional drama conjured from thin air by two people incapable of facing their issues head-on and playing weirdo mind games rather than just addressing issues directly.
Nah, I still dislike Miya. Prez all the way, leave the lukewarm tsundere for some schmuck who likes being settled for once her plan A has fallen through.