this one's starting to stress me out now lol
The concept's super neat, though. I think it's an issue of the story not being at the point where actual answers are going to surface, so the stress of the characters' situation is all we have as readers and we're watching Maki slowly get "worse" / more cat-like, with the only lead they had, suddenly becoming questionable, and also seemingly ineffectual.
But I am grateful for the continued TL work on this one. I've grown very invested in these two and look forward to seeing how this story concludes.