she does look similar in that panel, but the black irises are only there once (otherwise abi has light colored irises with slit pupils), so i’m inclined to say they’re not the same. my vote is for friend or sister
the GL tag wasn’t in the tags when i posted that, so in the moment it was just me enjoying shipping with no real expectations (which i realize the addition of the tag puts on the whole deal). frankly, and i say this with all love for the genre, there is a huge proportion of stuff in the GL tags...
seconding that the ending kind of looped back around into being funny, really feels like something that could have been published more than a decade ago and not you know. 2025
I think there is a misunderstanding. The 2 lines come from a larger poem (not shown in the manga) called “The Hunting of the Snark” by Lewis Carroll, as spotted by th3odora earlier. When I referred to “the poem,” I was talking about that. The lines used are a quotation from something not written...
It doesn’t look like a font but handwritten, as the “y”s are all drawn differently, so it’s probably the mangaka’s writing. Line two might be a phonetic approximation of “For it cross on a..(?)”?. Line 1 is a total mystery to me.
edit: Good catch on the text being flipped in the first line.
glad we’re all in agreement that the mouth panel is freaky as hell. teeth tend to get me so props to dorothy for always coming up with something unnerving when i’m not expecting it LOL