Kaiibu ~M-ken Y-shi no Kai Genshou ni Tsuite~ - Vol. 1 Ch. 5 - Phobia Hotel - Part 2

[MangaDex]

 

[Skullkrusher]

Damn, so it was neither psychopathy or empty head. It manipulates fear, not guilt. One of the Specters took her and either fried her amygdala, or killed her and resurrected her SO many times she lost all fear of death. At least we got some motivation on paranormal club girl.

 

[BreadBunny]

yeah whatever happened to her was locked away in her subconscious so it's still there and thinking "wow this is nothing compared to the eternity torture" whenever anything else happens in this town.

 

[moblinsecret]

Weirdly anticlimactic end there, just half a page of "oh yeah they found the key and managed to escape"

 

[NinjaGoemon]

Damn, so it was neither psychopathy or empty head. It manipulates fear, not guilt. One of the Specters took her and either fried her amygdala, or killed her and resurrected her SO many times she lost all fear of death. At least we got some motivation on paranormal club girl.

Considering the blood amount it's definitely she got killed over and over until she went numb.

 

[Yuri_Enjoyer_Deluxe]

I too would stop fearing things if my brain did jumping jacks everytime I had to process things

 

[MsW0lf]

Weirdly anticlimactic end there, just half a page of "oh yeah they found the key and managed to escape"

This might be just a “introducing the third member of the group“ kind of chapter. And like, if you’re up against a fear entity and one of you has no fear it is kinda just game over for the entity.

 

[solamente]

I like the idea that this is a reverse heist story where they're breaking out rather than breaking in (disabling the traps / specters, getting the keys from the sleeping guard, etc.). So this would just be the part where they assemble the crew I guess?

 

[Tachi31]

Honestly, I like this kind of outcome. Like...after the previous chapter, I was cynically prepared for her to be revealed as a manipulative psycho because...that seemed to be the pattern they were going with.

Knowing that not every other character is out to kill them means there's actually potential outcomes aside from "and then prez turns the tables and they got killed by their own trap" and other characters can actually be more than disposable horror teens, which is cool.

And I guess that and maybe showing off her horrifying backstory and how weird specters' powers can be was more the point than the specter that...couldn't really do much aside from recycle the previous monsters/use up future chapters' designs? So they didn't really need to do a big show of defeating it once it became clear it was powerless against the new girl.

 

[looc64]

Honestly, I like this kind of outcome. Like...after the previous chapter, I was cynically prepared for her to be revealed as a manipulative psycho because...that seemed to be the pattern they were going with.

Knowing that not every other character is out to kill them means there's actually potential outcomes aside from "and then prez turns the tables and they got killed by their own trap" and other characters can actually be more than disposable horror teens, which is cool.

And I guess that and maybe showing off her horrifying backstory and how weird specters' powers can be was more the point than the specter that...couldn't really do much aside from recycle the previous monsters/use up future chapters' designs? So they didn't really need to do a big show of defeating it once it became clear it was powerless against the new girl.

It's also a good riff on how a lot of horror setups only work if the victim has xyz trait most people have and are ridiculously easy for people without that trait.