I wouldn't call dying to shield your daughter from your other daughter's murder plan an easy way out. She died a horrible, painful death protecting one daughter from another.
Nobody's defending the old hag, but that doesn't justify the shit Mirai is pulling out. Think about it outside the fancy paranormal context - Mirai is committing a murder suicide over parental neglect. What's more, she is already treating her own children worse than her mother treated her. Grandma fucked up trying and failing to resolve generations of violent shit in her family, but she was ultimately less fucked up than her own mother. Mirai, on the other hand, is doing her best to become the worst.
Thanks for the upload, my weekend needed the pickup.
Well this would be Mirai's second attempt at a murder suicide considering the only thing that ended up stopping her first attempt and lead to her daughter actually being alive at this point was her mom's whoopsie going down a flight of stairs at her home. It should be taken into account that Mirai's firstborn child and Mirai even being alive at this point is the result of both gravity and an accident. Which goes to show that once again Sir Isaac Newton discovery when paired with stairs is bane to not just Charles Xavier, Zoro's development as a child, but to as well disturbed individuals that after finding out what happened to their beloved mother figures decide the best way to honor their memory or get justice for them is to go through weaponizing their own womb twice because attempting to leave her husband a widow twice and going out like Yoshie did will make everything right.
I actually think its awesome that this chapter is sparking so much conversation in this thread it shows the mangaka has done a great job in fleshing out the situation and the characters.
Though I wonder how if the husband finds out what is going on her how he will respond with knowing that on some level Mirai did view him as a sperm donor on two separate occasions at least and will he question how she truly felt about him considering what her end game involved. I know this series is initially meant for a younger audience but seeing a future arc handle a supernaturally instigated divorce and custody battle could be interesting and how the teacher would interact with that situation. Though considering how useful the husband has been so far, and while I do hope for a happy ending, I'm fully expecting either a handwave level of forgiveness which after all of this will be awkward and frustrating to a small degree or he will be completely treated like a fungus and left out of the loop.
I'm also happy the cousin was able to extract himself from the situation and get some closure. I fully picture him saying Mutsu's last words in a sarcastic tone before he attempted to drive off. I loved that he didn't even try to free Nana after he saved Kaya he simply passed on the message and is allowing the sisters to hash it out themselves regardless how well that may turn out.
Another thing if Mutsu's "save Mirai from being Yoshie'd" plan is legit did that mean she also intentionally gave birth to Nana early in order to nerf her powers as well? Also do you think it will be elaborated on if this the first time a womb-sama got reloaded for a second shot? I know someone earlier in the thread did the math and this has likely been going on for around 100ish years but even in the early 1900s, and not to be to crass, miscarriages were still a thing what did the Ebisumoris do to womb-samas that survived a failed arming and detonation attempt? I mean true I can see the mangaka not addressing such a morbid bit of exposition on a let's be real foot note matter but still its interesting to think if they had a protocal for such situations.
Furthermore shouldn't they have put more effort into securing and hiding Yoshie's journal in the first place? If they were trying to shield Mirai from the truth until they could drive her away you'd think they'd do a better job, considering her attachment to Yoshie, keeping it away from the worst possible person to get a hold of it....but at the same time if we're going to question that and considering the amount of duress Mirai had been exposed to during her upbringing and afterwards.... we should also question why didn't she just call the police on her abusive family with their vile practices that go back generations and show them the journal as evidence?....Did she consider that to not be as conclusive and efficient or make as powerful of a statement as engaging in some revenge driven uterus weaponization herself?
