"Little by little" like you what mate? Bro got called cute once and it magically grew his hair and got him in a dress. Where's the build up? Where's the mystic? THE AGONY?!
It's been soooooooooooo long. This mangaka being one of the early TSF (but also fairly trans positive) mangakas I've wanted to see how this ends for so long.
Hopefully someone is able to muscle through and bring us closure.
Aleah falls in love with Lilly by age 16 and her sister is in love with Aleah. It's uh, complicated. Aleah is the protagonist though so who knows how that'll turn out.
Also as a note this scan is bad.
It feels like this is going to force Satsuki to reconcile with the original death. Either she lets fate take the original death or lose her most precious person.