Kimi wa Yotsuba no Clover - Ch. 56 - Strange

[Figroth]

She's told her brother about the watch, though. It was part of what got her the agreement to live next door to Uichi. The mastermind was (seemingly) surprised to hear about the clover watch when Yotsuha was trying to use it previously, and has been reactionary to Yotsuha derailing the plans.

More likely the estranged father than the brother, imo.

She told her brother about time travel, but not about the watch specifically. When the mastermind figured out it was the watch it seemed almost like he already knew she was time travelling and just figured out how.

Not saying it's her brother, but the story is definitely setting up the beats for us to suspect him.

 

[Figroth]

Don't hurt Yotsuha eh?
That's a nice theory Yotsuha, if it's true then maybe the mastermind is looking out for her... like a brother.

If that phone starts ringing someone pick it up because I have called it.

Her friend from elementary would also be fairly plausible based on this chapter.
And yet both the friend and the brother seem too obvious.

 

[Babymech2]

I mean, it's always her future self, or her child. Can't kill her because that would cause a paradox

 

[Shrimperor]

Bitch needs a heavy dose of correction ngl

 

[arimareiji]

'Been saying for a while it's the brother, trying to kill Uichi because of a timeline where he didn't realize in time that Yotsuha died trying to save him or due to a horrible coincidence where she thinks he rejected her or something.

For my money, he's the one responsible for susdad's "suicide" reported on the news… and I still say time-traveling is a familial power, which is why Mommy Dearest lost her sanity and susdad turned evil.

 

[MaTu94]

Not to point out the brother's clover neck tattoo, but. . .
I'm inclined to think it won't be that easy, because it's kinda obvious, but I've been wrong before

Thanks a lot for the scanlation and gz aged!

 

[Spooder9]

thanks for the chapter! great stuff

 

[14Darius28]

Calling it:

Spoiler: supposition and guesswork

I'm betting it was the father all along.

Yeah he seems plausible now.

 

[seirio]

Alternate timeline Uichi theory?

 

[Zohaib_OPM]

What is Uichi has Bipolar personality disorder and is doing all this or something?

 

[someonevibing]

I think it’s her dad considering he is directly mentioned at this point

 

[SpecialProjectY]

Yotsuha using the clover watch might cause her death, since the "mastermind" doesn't want her death but want to get rid of Uichi, it might be:

1. Father
2. Brother

They don't care about Uichi, as long as Yotsuha is safe, although her well being is tied with Uichi, which would cause her to get mental breakdown, that wouldn't be good for either of suspects tho'

Thanks for the scanlation!

 

[MrTurtleMan]

Everyone saying it's Yotsuha's brother or Uichi himself when her father was just Chekov's gunned into the setting as a (allegedly) bad person.

 

[ReasonableSuspicion]

My guess is that it's her dad. Brother still seems pretty suspicious, though.

 

[HydroGammer]

A few theories:

Alternate/future Uchi:
Wants to save Yotusha from having to save him so many times. Only problem with this theory is that she has saved him before, she is just trying to get him the most happy he can be. Why not just tell her the consequences instead of trying to get him to commit? Also, how can he be time traveling?

Father:
Feels a little like a red herring and, similar to the guy in the flashbacks, it feels to obvious. Plus, why would her father, who might not even know she exists, care about some random kid she met at school as a young child?

Brother:
Most likely, but still, why does he care either for Uchi or Yotusha. He didn’t know about Uchi until recently. It seems he is helping Yotusha for the benefit of having someone who can time travel.

Hacker-close friend (I forgot her name):
We haven’t seen her a lot and she knows Uchi and Yotusha. Maybe she secretly loves Yotusha and wants to kill Uchi? However, if that is the case why risk her life with people like her stalker/obsessed classmate?

One of the bullies/participants:
Maybe one of them (my money on any of the bullies is on the background bullies from the subway) is doing it out of sick pleasure and enjoying controlling multiple people.

Nobody we have seen:
It is possible that some sicko is just f-ing around with Uchi and finds sick joy from it. With Yotusha acting as a new fun toy. It is also possible that it is an AI that misunderstood some order or is following one someone made but thought it failed and gave up on it.

 

[SeveralSolution]

Spoiler: Speculation on the mastermind

What is the mastermind is uichi but from a parallel universe

 

[alfirizkyr]

I'm still buying the engineer friend stocks. All this said, dad is definitely a subplot that will impact the story (the setup is a bit too obvious), and her brother will defo be involved during her family's proper arc.

 

[ChaosMAX1268]

Eito as he is sulking in his home: Why do I get the feeling I am gonna get a hard time again...

 

[BlargET]

Oh how the foils plot.

 

[Hexxy]

I have an insane theory about Yotsuha's father that I don't think anyone has brought up yet. I don't know how exactly it ties into Uichi but I do think it ties into why her father is a "horrible person", why she was in an orphanage, and why she has a seemingly deathly genetic illness

What if Yotsuha is a result of inbreeding? I can imagine it right now. Her mother was driven insane from having to carry essentially a rape baby after her own father or brother or the like did that to her. And what if Yotsuha's father is also the father of the actual mastermind?

This would explain everything: the illness from birth, her mother's behaviour, how her brother knows her father was awful, and her relationship to the mastermind, who is also using a clover symbol. The mastermind is Yotsuha's half brother - but not the one we've been introduced to. A secret other sibling who cares about her insofar as she family technically.

Now, the incest part might be stretching it a bit much, but I think I have a solid theory here with the rest of it.

Besides that, think of it - what is Yotsuha's motif? A four leaf clover - something which only exists as a genetic mutation from three leaf ones.

TL;DR the mastermind is Yotsuha's half brother, but not the one we know. There is another, and he knows Yotsuha is his half sister, but she doesn't know about him, hence why he doesn't want to hurt her. Their shared father raped Yotsuha's mom and fathered Yotsu with her, hence why her mom put her up in an orphanage and only went back to claim her later after losing it completely. To explain her birth disease, the father might actually also be genetically related to her mom, making her a product of incest, though this part is less likely, but can be given credence by the known brother saying her father was a bad person.