Man that sure is an ending.
So it's clear to me that the guy in the truck is Reiji. No other male characters have light hair, and the way Chako talks about him, I can't see him being dead. And the only person Gen told not to wait for him with Reiji, so literally could only be him. Meaning "that...
This keeps getting repeated, but it's wrong. Esemori acts surprised because he thinks she found out about his actual first time coming back, which is shown in the very same page: when his mother died and he ran into Reiji, already a teenager, being bullied by Gen. This meeting was the catalyst...
Reiji's father is a distant relative of Esemori, who was placed in end-of-life hospice care at the hospital Yuko worked at. He probably died before Reiji was born.
Yuko is delirious and convinced herself she had a child with Esemori, the man she always loved. And on some level, I think we're...
So
Reiji's father is random distant relative of Esemori, introduced at the last second because ??? reasons.
It's pretty obvious she's hallucinating in her own dying moments, trying to convince herself that relative was actually Esemori. But he was a young patient in hospice, which is...
I agree tbh, while Reiji's descent into his current form is arguably the "abyss" the series has been building to this whole time, something about it just feels off. I think I'm still disappointed with how Nagi's backstory was ultimately revealed, so having that be the final catalyst ruins the...
I think you're right, yeah. I noticed her line about the uncle is slightly off as well; this version of the translation, what she says doesn't really flow together logically, unless she's trying to imply she thinks Mao is at least living a shitty life ("the life he deserves"), but that doesn't...
I'm kinda curious what the original Japanese said on page 2, because both scanlations have super different translations for Nagi's line in the bottom of the page.
The text is hard to see which is likely while it wasn't translated, but there's extra text in the panel just before she opens the window. Most of the text is just "Help me" repeated over and over, but there's an obscured part that's harder to read. Based on the characters that are visible, I'm...