Hen na Ie - Vol. 3 Ch. 10

[Parabola]

Very odd of the narrative to explicitly have the woman buy tickets for separate seats. It's the kind of small detail that you'd normally skip over if it never came up later.

If you believed that this woman is acting suspicious, that she actually doesn't want other people to know the full truth of things, possibly because she's involved in the murders one way or another... then it looks bad.

If our protagonist were to suddenly disappear or die in this house, if you were merely looking at the tickets, it would be easy to believe the two didn't know each other and just happened to be traveling in the same train at the same time.

From there, it's only the architect friend that she'd need to get rid of somehow to make sure nobody else connects the dots.

 

[Kokoala]

I've read the novel. I'm not sure if the manga will follow the exact storyline or not, but if you are curious if our mc survive or not in the novel:

Spoiler

Our mc and the architect guy won't be murdered. That Yuzuki girl is innocent.

 

[Ahab19]

0% of happening, remember the guy knows about where our mc is going.

Probably not but I still get bad vibes from her.

 

[PicklesnMilk]

The fact that she bought separate plane tickets is so suspicious, who cares if y'all don't talk the entire flight?

 

[rckvnka]

Thank you for the update!

 

[broodstar]

my guess is that they pick the murderer of the family, the aunts family was trying to bail out of their responsibility. to punish them the father was killed first, then the son and that made the aunt go along with it or she and her baby were next. The baby is now the murderer. and it seems like the woman knows more than she's letting on, she could be bait to catch anyone who's close to figuring it out, intentionally or not

That sounds incredibly plausible to the point that I wouldn't be surprised if you already read the novel and is subtly spoiling. The theory also fits with the fact the aunt muttering to herself something that made it seem like she was expecting her oldest son to die like she had a suspicion her family somehow got her husband killed. And the one who took Yuzuki's older sister away were most likely the grandparents. Yuzuki's parents didn't raise a fuss because they resigned themselves to the fate of family "tradition". The father drunk himself to death because he couldn't forgive himself for resigning his daughter to a murderous life.

Something else I realized was that the reason why the first house had two separate beds for the wife and husband might be because when they started their murderous life, they were not truly romantically involved. The husband could be forced into the life from another family, or he is just a random guy the family took care of over the years and is doing it out of obligation. But over time they got close and had a kid.

Also my theory for why Yuzuki cried in the coffee shop after MC told her of his new findings is that at that moment she realized that the kid murderer is actually her aunt's son, which led her to feel incredible sadness for her aunt and her son that they had to endure such a dark life. Which if true, makes me wonder why she didn't tell Kirihara and MC about this possibility.

Man I can't wait for the next chapter. I haven't looked forward to a manga translation this intensely in the last 10 years or so.