100 Ghost Stories That Will Lead to My Own Death - Ch. 90 - Letters From A Parent

[MangaDex]

 

[SMAXZO]

Somebody better pick up the phone...because folks in this very forum CALLED IT!

 

[metroidprimerib]

Wow the ending to the story actually got me I did not expect that

 

[undeed]

I was still trying to process the story, and then the bombshell dropped

 

[3141592653589]

"No, Hinamommy, don't kill anyone! That's why I keep telling these stories about abusive parents dying when you're around! It's so that you see how bad it would be if that actually happened!"

Yuuma, my man, I know you gotta keep up the plausible deniability and all since you've already had a couple run-ins with the boys in blue, but dude... you ain't fooling anybody. We're all reading between the lines here.

 

[SMAXZO]

I was still trying to process the story, and then the bombshell dropped

So, kid actually DID got a letter from his dead mom and when his dad found out, he made up the letters to cover for it. Why would he cover it up? Well....the last letter from the mom explained it all.

 

[goodknife]

it's clearly hina got to use toilet, you should untied her..

 

[undeed]

So, kid actually DID got a letter from his dead mom and when his dad found out, he made up the letters to cover for it. Why would he cover it up? Well....the last letter from the mom explained it all.

hmm... no..?
that's not what I get,
I believe it's always the dead mom who replied to him,

so the grown up boy believed that his father wrote the letter (a fake out),
until at the end when he read that small piece of note, he realized that the handwriting was different,
so it's a double fake out, and it was actually his dead mom who kept writing the letters all along, never the father
it's just that his dead mom can't say anything but supportive messages

 

[PollySama]

Is no one gonna mention how the capitalized letters on the first letter from his mom spell out "DAD KILL"?

 

[PollySama]

Is no one gonna mention how the capitalized letters on the first letter from his mom spell out "Dad Kill"?

Actually, the way "MOM" is capitalized, it could be "DAD KILL MOM"

 

[romie68]

Well that was certainly depressing

 

[undeed]

Actually, the way "MOM" is capitalized, it could be "DAD KILL MOM"

wow, that's an awesome catch
props to the translator for being able to make the message still visible in the letter.

 

[EchoGirl]

oof his moms involved after all

 

[ieatass69]

not sure if I missed any clue that incriminated the dad in the first letter but the way it works in the original jp text is the usual get only the first character of each line. in the original text, it's ころされた (i was murdered).

also this is what made he doubt the letters came from the dad

 

[RedIce05]

Advanced bondage play by Yuuma and Hina is crazy. I hope they had a safe word.

 

[Hmnn]

until at the end when he read that small piece of note, he realized that the handwriting was different

Oh I thought it's the way the sender addresses MC: "Dear Kokoro" vs "Kokoro"; the fonts used in this tl aren't very different. But you may be right if we check the raw:

also this is what made he doubt the letters came from the dad

 

[gloss]

hmm... no..?
that's not what I get,
I believe it's always the dead mom who replied to him,

so the grown up boy believed that his father wrote the letter (a fake out),
until at the end when he read that small piece of note, he realized that the handwriting was different,
so it's a double fake out, and it was actually his dead mom who kept writing the letters all along, never the father
it's just that his dead mom can't say anything but supportive messages

Yeah, and to add on to this, the dad was aware to some extent that his mom was actually writing the letters since he'd obviously know her handwriting. We're also shown how bad the kids handwriting is immediately, on purpose, so we as the viewer would know that there's no way that he seriously thought the kid wrote it.

Which is also why he says at the end that he probably won't be able to write letters, since he knows that unlike the mom, the place he's going won't be as... accommodating.

Also, he most likely caught the hidden message in the first one, considering his expression when he reads it and the fact that he tore it up

 

[CrownGold]

In the first letter from the mom, you can see some of the letters are slightly larger than the others. They spell out DAD KILL MOM.

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[Yuyu_yusha]

Now we have reached 90, the question is would the author gonna finish it exactly in 100th story just like the title or the author gonna bail in 99th story like similar manga in the past.