Is it just me, or did anyone else have to jump a year back to
chapter 206 and reread all the chapters for everything to properly fit together?
For a while now, the chapters have felt disjointed and not made very much sense individually, but now I get it. At least to me, they feel very much like the flash-photo-image style I've seen a few times in anime, depicting a slow-motion crash between two people.
Something like… (with the sound of a camera shutter clicking between images)
Still shot of character A running, head down for speed.
Still shot of character B reaching backward to open his gate to the sidewalk.
A hears a latch click and looks up with a surprised expression.
B backs out onto the sidewalk with a large package.
A tries to stop her momentum and yells a warning.
B looks up surprised, dropping the package.
A and B are inches away in awkward poses.
A and B intersect in a tangle of arms and legs.
A is falling forward, B is falling backward.
A is on top of B, with the sound of bodies landing on the ground.