Kimi wa Shuumatsu - Ch. 3.5

[MangaDex]

 

[UdenEmpati]

I don't recall any hint about it in the first chapter, per se
But I wonder if it'll come out that he just...doesn't care if the world actually ends, on a personal level.

Sure, he's "doing his duty", but all I know is if I were the only person capable of preventing the destruction of the world by making sure the eldritch god-thing who chose me as her partner was always happy, I'd maybe try to acquire some social awareness and not be so stupidly stubborn and both selfish and uncaring about small things like this.
So the fact that he seems to always put his foot in his mouth and take the "bad option" first before fixing it after the fact, and over things as inconsequential as having his photo taken no less, makes it seem like he's not actually interested in taking the role he's been given seriously.

Hopefully we do get some sort of backstory (as in, sooner than later) on this guy and maybe some rationale on his choices and way of being.


Anyway thanks for the TL.

 

[Agent_Seagull]

Aww such a cute lovers quarrel...

Meanwhile at the news: 5 million people found dead from an unknown virus

 

[SusanooFish]

I don't recall any hint about it in the first chapter, per se
But I wonder if it'll come out that he just...doesn't care if the world actually ends, on a personal level.

Sure, he's "doing his duty", but all I know is if I were the only person capable of preventing the destruction of the world by making sure the eldritch god-thing who chose me as her partner was always happy, I'd maybe try to acquire some social awareness and not be so stupidly stubborn and both selfish and uncaring about small things like this.
So the fact that he seems to always put his foot in his mouth and take the "bad option" first before fixing it after the fact, and over things as inconsequential as having his photo taken no less, makes it seem like he's not actually interested in taking the role he's been given seriously.

Hopefully we do get some sort of backstory (as in, sooner than later) on this guy and maybe some rationale on his choices and way of being.


Anyway thanks for the TL.

To be fair, this is the same guy that said that he doesn't care if the world ends as well as having his said family accidentally dead by her hands.

 

[Nou]

I don't recall any hint about it in the first chapter, per se
But I wonder if it'll come out that he just...doesn't care if the world actually ends, on a personal level.

Sure, he's "doing his duty", but all I know is if I were the only person capable of preventing the destruction of the world by making sure the eldritch god-thing who chose me as her partner was always happy, I'd maybe try to acquire some social awareness and not be so stupidly stubborn and both selfish and uncaring about small things like this.
So the fact that he seems to always put his foot in his mouth and take the "bad option" first before fixing it after the fact, and over things as inconsequential as having his photo taken no less, makes it seem like he's not actually interested in taking the role he's been given seriously.

Hopefully we do get some sort of backstory (as in, sooner than later) on this guy and maybe some rationale on his choices and way of being.


Anyway thanks for the TL.

It could also be that that's the reason the eldrich god is so interested in him, if mc was a yesmen who consented to everything then it'd be boring, may as well end the world now..

Now this could just be cope from my side, but i think it makes a bit of sense.

 

[UdenEmpati]

To be fair, this is the same guy that said that he doesn't care if the world ends as well as having his said family accidentally dead by her hands.

I'm assuming you're inferring that his parents died in the Outbreak 6 years prior, because I've gone back through all three chapters twice now, and it's not stated one way or the other that I can find.

Along the same lines, I didn't find anything saying he doesn't care if the world ends outright; the most I saw was when he stated that it "was calming" in chapter one when he and Aru were at the top of the building post-abduction, when she'd turned the whole world weird while fighting off her abductors.

So if I missed something, please do let me know the chapter & page number, or whether you're relying on information not found in the manga we've got here thus far, or something.

 

[detarameMangadex]

Thanks for the (bonus) chapter :D

I wonder how self-aware Aru is. She's quite happy all the time for a potentially world-ending entity... Or is that just the nature of eldritch beings?

 

[UdenEmpati]

It could also be that that's the reason the eldrich god is so interested in him, if mc was a yesmen who consented to everything then it'd be boring, may as well end the world now..

Now this could just be cope from my side, but i think it makes a bit of sense.

A good thought - I think part of it also would involve how they met in the first place, either pre- or post-Outbreak.

MC mentions that the first Cracks appeared 16 years ago, and on the day both he and Aru were born; and that 6 years before the present, the Outbreak occurred, and Aru was ...I guess "born".

Since it seems most people died once infected, I'm guessing Aru was infected (since she's described as half-human), but survived - and the question becomes if she's Aru the Human who's housing an eldritch being, or if Aru is now the eldritch being and the human girl has been erased, or if they're both in there, and the Aru we see is the eldritch being but possesing Aru the Human's memories, personality, quirks, hopes & dreams, and so on.
And, did MC and Aru know one another beforehand? Or did they only meet post-Outbreak/Infection? And how did they meet, if the latter? Almost no one knows who Aru really is (naturally), so I think a big part of what we need to know involves actual backstory for them both, and arguably both in terms of them as individuals and them as a pair.

But it's also only chapter 3, and I think this author's body of work speaks to her ability to write - so I'm happy to be patient and see what we learn as the story unfolds. Just lots of questions in the moment about the setting and the characters, because at face value MC's demeanor and behavior feel (more than) a bit incongruent with his circumstances at large.