As soon as our boy builds up the littlest bit of confidence, the woman who has experience with ACTUAL bears makes him doubt his fairy bear-mother once again.
We haven't seen the boy's corpse, so I'll assume he's alive for the moment. Could be funny if the wounded kid turns out to be an unexpected X factor that throws off Nezumi and Spica's mastermind schemes.
Cute chapter as always, but good lawd those are some mixed signals.
Girl, you can't be asking to sleep with a guy while wearing lingerie the same night you insisted there were no romantic connotations.
Hmm... I don't think so. Other people interact with him pretty consistently. Even in this chapter we've got elf boy patching him up after a smack. That sort of twist would require her to also hallucinate other people responding to her imaginary friend, which would make the reveal feel cheap and...
That's pretty natural tbh. The human body isn't all that symmetrical outside of fantasy.
For a clear example of this, look closely at your own fingers. Given a moment you'll notice they're ever so slightly crooked in different ways. Compare them side by side, and the difference is even easier...
Kuro's plan revealed at the end shows she doesn't intend to win. Her actual goal with the festival plan is to push Hikari into confessing while burying her own feelings.
If I had to guess? Kuro has a change of heart partway through the festival and manages to win, givign us a double spread...
Oh damn, you might be right. Now that's an ugly business.
Hopefully this young master earns himself a darwin award soon and the empress can make her escape.