yeah i was thinking the same thingOnce again Yuuma tells a story that reflects his own situation with "Hina but not really" also coming to visit him just like the character in his story, this time throwing all subtlety out of the window.
Also shout out to the user who mentioned to revisit chapter 1. It is heavily implied in the opening pages of that chapter that the object "we" are watching this tale through is a framed photo, and the story told by Yuuma was about a woman's ghost coming back to haunt her lover. The very first lines Yuuma spoke in-story consisted of wondering where does the dead go, do they just latch on to a "host" via objects that both the dead and the host were familiar with as their point of connection? The woman in the story also remained connected to the "host" through various objects in their apartment, which is very similar to the wife in this chapter's story.
Based on all those contextual clues I think the object is a photo of a deceased person, or persons. It might even be of Yuuma's real parents and he is living with foster parents/relatives, I don't think we've ever gotten confirmation that the faceless mom and dad in the manga are his biological parents. Going from there, it is possible that the real parents died strange/inexplicable deaths as well. If my hypothesis is true, it explains a lot: why Yuuma wanted to end it all, why he's interested in all of this occult shit if all he wanted was to end it (his real aim is perhaps seeing his parents again in whatever form), and why CPS and the cops were so eager to get involved in his life.
Ah yes, now that I think about it, Yuuma clearly fears the man, and doesn't seem to care all that much about the woman. She was also more cautious and yet still got horse'd when she got a bit too aggressive with Yuuma.yeah i was thinking the same thing
its also possible that only one of his bio parents died. Im curious why the man and woman he lives with have been depicted differently - iirc the woman is the only one we've seen and heard clearly, while the man has only been seen as a black figure yelling unintelligibly. If we're seeing through the eyes of the dead parent, maybe that difference is because one is their surviving spouse and the other is a stepparent they never met in life. (If so, my guess would be that the dead parent is Yuuma's mom and that his dad was abusing her too)
I think we also saw her POV in the very first chapterwoah, is that the first time we're seeing another POV
When Yuuma goes to the interview with the cop for the first time, they ask "What is that...rather who is that?" which indicates that it can be both an object or a person.Once again Yuuma tells a story that reflects his own situation with "Hina but not really" also coming to visit him just like the character in his story, this time throwing all subtlety out of the window.
Also shout out to the user who mentioned to revisit chapter 1. It is heavily implied in the opening pages of that chapter that the object "we" are watching this tale through is a framed photo, and the story told by Yuuma was about a woman's ghost coming back to haunt her lover. The very first lines Yuuma spoke in-story consisted of wondering where does the dead go, do they just latch on to a "host" via objects that both the dead and the host were familiar with as their point of connection? The woman in the story also remained connected to the "host" through various objects in their apartment, which is very similar to the wife in this chapter's story.
Based on all those contextual clues I think the object is a photo of a deceased person, or persons. It might even be of Yuuma's real parents and he is living with foster parents/relatives, I don't think we've ever gotten confirmation that the faceless mom and dad in the manga are his biological parents. Going from there, it is possible that the real parents died strange/inexplicable deaths as well. If my hypothesis is true, it explains a lot: why Yuuma wanted to end it all, why he's interested in all of this occult shit if all he wanted was to end it (his real aim is perhaps seeing his parents again in whatever form), and why CPS and the cops were so eager to get involved in his life.
I'm suspecting doll or photographwonder what the 'spare' thing is
lol i wonder how many ppl would block that kinda number after the first time
Once again Yuuma tells a story that reflects his own situation with "Hina but not really" also coming to visit him just like the character in his story, this time throwing all subtlety out of the window.
Also shout out to the user who mentioned to revisit chapter 1. It is heavily implied in the opening pages of that chapter that the object "we" are watching this tale through is a framed photo, and the story told by Yuuma was about a woman's ghost coming back to haunt her lover. The very first lines Yuuma spoke in-story consisted of wondering where does the dead go, do they just latch on to a "host" via objects that both the dead and the host were familiar with as their point of connection? The woman in the story also remained connected to the "host" through various objects in their apartment, which is very similar to the wife in this chapter's story.
Based on all those contextual clues I think the object is a photo of a deceased person, or persons. It might even be of Yuuma's real parents and he is living with foster parents/relatives, I don't think we've ever gotten confirmation that the faceless mom and dad in the manga are his biological parents. Going from there, it is possible that the real parents died strange/inexplicable deaths as well. If my hypothesis is true, it explains a lot: why Yuuma wanted to end it all, why he's interested in all of this occult shit if all he wanted was to end it (his real aim is perhaps seeing his parents again in whatever form), and why CPS and the cops were so eager to get involved in his life.
It looks like whatever got burned wasn't the main body, but instead was whatever is being used as eyes.
And those "eyes" can be burned, replaced, and are only in limited quantity.
There weren't a lot of ashes so it must be small.
The main body itself must be inflammable and just plain difficult to dispose of.
I have to wonder why Hina's first response was to burn it right then and rather than move it.
Maybe it's the wall itself or something too gross to touch.
I guess the "eyes" may be some kind of paper or wood carving.
I wonder what it could be?
That's what I was thinking.I think it might be a talisman