Well him trying to kill her seems to be something that he does a lot so i guess she got used to it.She sure is calm for being held at knife point
I'm sorta wondering if in life the situation was:Weird chapter. On two occasions, Asahi is obviously speaking for Minoru, saying his lines during their conversation (see first panels of pages 14 & 15). And when she mentions Wataru's name to the hostile Minoru-head monster on page 21, it seems to change, suddenly becoming the "normal" version of Minoru. It even announces the change with a long speech in which it recites knowledge of Minoru's life it seems suddenly to have remembered. Or been granted...
Makes me wonder whether "Minoru" is some kind monster that is only replicating Asahi's dead friend. Or one that she's somehow forcing into the role of him?
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To add onto your thoughts with the additional details we got from the most recent chapter: I don't really think Minoru tolerated Asahi, but that he outright only spent time around her due to his jealousy towards her. It's heavily implied at this point in the story that Minoru had some sort of envy towards the people Wataru spent time around, and the line "I'm the one who understands him the best" alongside him saying "I can't be someone he loves as Minoru" later on points to the general sentiment that he is wholeheartedly an unreliable narrator and only really cares about Wataru specificallyI'm sorta wondering if in life the situation was:
Asahi likes Minoru a lot and maybe Wataru
Wataru loves his brother Minoru and likes most people including Asahi
Minoru loves his brother Wataru and tolerates Asahi because of Wataru
And then the way he died made him hate her.
So like, Asahi can't super rely on Minoru's memories of her to keep him normal. She has to do stuff like prime him by starting sentences for him or bringing up someone he actually cares about.