Kimi wa Shuumatsu - Ch. 3

[UdenEmpati]

I'm inclined to agree with his approach. Complying with an opposing figure would make them talk more than otherwise. It also prevents them from taking a more aggressive tactic. She only trapped Aru in a barrier this time, but who knows what she will do next?

Then again, the MC doesn't seem to be one with a sense of self-preservation since chapter 1.

I don't expect every thought or action to be spelled out - but Aru also commented on his decision directly to him, and he didn't give any of the rationale you suggested.

I think they are reasonable, to be clear; but we got nothing in the way of thought process from his end this chapter, so all we are presented is ....well, the things I highlighted, and the implicit issues that accompany them.
He's also a teenager. Sure, one that works alongside a major organization and who has to be aware of the fact that one wrong move on his end could spell disaster for..I guess everyone, but - I can't say that his decision-making and behavior in general makes me really care too much about or for him, thus far.
(Could be that I just don't vibe with the character archetype he represents, and that's entirely a "me" thing and so I will own that.)


That all said - I sorta treat this as Aru being the main character, because all I really see him as is the reason she hasn't wigged out and annihilated everything.
He's got the tsundere-coded personality, but seems so devoid of desire or actual motivation as a character (outside of the nebulous "if I don't keep the monster happy she kills everyone"...and even that seems more out of obligation to the world on his end, than an actual personal desire); and while I realize it's only the 3rd chapter, he's kinda just "there", at this point, so I might just need more about him as an individual and that he's possessed of more than this halfhearted interest in placating Aru and being intermittently annoyed at playing at being her boyfriend.

 

[DARKWINGS_XD]

Tbh reading this is too much claming for me I kinda like it. So I shall stick by

 

[AVTE]

came here from a youtube short and i must say i am disappointed at MC's self-preservation skills its like he wants to die but knows he can't otherwise that fks over everyone also his mindset is the absolute worst u trying to appease a world ending intelligent pathogen virus through a normal high school life with her stop being a hard ass tsundere u shouldnt be a tsundere when billions of peoples lives are in danger. You know who gets to be tsunderes? Blonde twintails as well as childhood friends who are arrogant pieces of shit tsunderes.

 

[Autrice]

came here from a youtube short and i must say i am disappointed at MC's self-preservation skills its like he wants to die but knows he can't otherwise that fks over everyone also his mindset is the absolute worst u trying to appease a world ending intelligent pathogen virus through a normal high school life with her stop being a hard ass tsundere u shouldnt be a tsundere when billions of peoples lives are in danger. You know who gets to be tsunderes? Blonde twintails as well as childhood friends who are arrogant pieces of shit tsunderes.

he feels "calm" when he saw the image of apocalypse in front of his eyes and you still question his self-preservation. i feel this guy is outright suicidal even though he doesn't know it himself.

 

[AVTE]

he feels "calm" when he saw the image of apocalypse in front of his eyes and you still question his self-preservation. i feel this guy is outright suicidal even though he doesn't know it himself.

I question his self-preservation cause its exactly a problem where it looks like he doesnt give a shit about his life and may be suicidal then again we won't know yet until we get a much clearer backstpry on the mc which is probably gonna be in the next 10 chapters hopefully...

 

[wanfai]

Well this is cute. In a eldritch horror kind of way

 

[Agent_Seagull]

Who is this new biatch? Abolish her ..... Let my boy be all Tsundere with his Yandere wifey 🙏🙏🥀

 

[alexanderw21]

Every "kind pushover overly trusting" shounen MC in a nutshell

or it might because of aru scent, it might mess with him more than he let it on

 

[TT0182]

Very interesting concept and nice building of romance.

Just a gripe with the world building:
Surely the organisation containing FMC is backed by the government, like they have been doing a great job for the past 16 years and these pretentious people come in and think they can solve it.
Given her power scaling, the world would have been gone within a year or so, 16 years is a great feat. I never heard of SCP containing organisations that been that good for that long.

 

[Carn109]

The cure is to pet the Aru

 

[UdenEmpati]

Very interesting concept and nice building of romance.

Just a gripe with the world building:
Surely the organisation containing FMC is backed by the government, like they have been doing a great job for the past 16 years and these pretentious people come in and think they can solve it.
Given her power scaling, the world would have been gone within a year or so, 16 years is a great feat. I never heard of SCP containing organisations that been that good for that long.

it's been six years since Aru became what she currently is.
The cracks in the world first started appearing 16 years ago - on the day both of our MCs were born (which, if I'm reading that chapter correctly, happened to be the same day?)
But the actual Outbreak that created the Aru we know and love was 6 years prior.

That's not to say that this random exorcist-style chick now crawling out of the woodwork isn't a bit strange, but maybe there's some actual rationale, like she just got back from a multi-year overseas excursion, or she only just now came of "old-enough age" to be doing this sort of thing, or something.
But she's being rather unwilling to engage in any meaningful back-and-forth and seems intent on just "my way or the highway"ing our Main Pair, so I don't know when (hopefully not an "if") we'll actually get any rationale for why she's only just now making her move.