Think @ieatass69 is onto something. Not for the psychic success since it is looking at the rat, but rather for the perfect success. The perfect success is always shown as looking right at the viewer, or us, it's likely that he realized it's in a fictional world? So there's no point in actually...
Not necessarily a red herring, since the demon thing is probably removing the inhibition/amplify emotion like cromat said, it could have possessed the initial killer(Takada?). His face could be interpreted as being possessed in Chapter 62 pg.12, kinda? And the transmission of the possession seem...
Actually, the 4 people shown at the bottom of Chapter 56, pg 150 seems to be the parents as well as brother and sister of Yume. Since the train station is close to where she lives, did the alternative universe Yume family(saves alt Yume herself) somehow died or got on the train? And the alt Yume...
That's a good catch, the store fronts was shown in all three chapters, and it didn't change until Chapter 56. One other difference is the height of the street light in Chapter 54 and 56. Although that could be just because of the angle. Wonder if the dead body they found is actually the woman...