Hey, I know most of you guys are pissed off with the author because of the ghost kid also appearing in Hana’s point of view.
But I have a theory. It consists of two points – one about the kid touching the woman, and one for the seemingly plot hole.
Well, we know that this monstrosities want to be noticed, so they follow people (some because of a bond). We also know that these creepy ones come in different types (in relation to power and presence, that is). There was one that even our cute little Julia couldn’t see, right? Then, what if there’s a chance for this phenomenon happening backwards? Like, they becoming somewhat noticeable to people.
To put a example of this idea, let’s look at a panel this chapter – especially, when the kid appears with the woman. So, we see that she’s holding the kid’s hand, but she doesn’t pay attention to him (although this normally makes sense in real life since there are exact examples of this behavior). Look then after the kid gets killed by the spirit guardians of our MC. The woman never seemed to notice that the kid stopped holding her hand, and she didn’t pay attention to the kid getting terminated either. This makes sense because she can’t see ghosts, but... then why she could touch it?
This observation makes me believe that there are some ghost that can be more noticed by strong wills or some shit like that. Let’s say that the kid wanted a mother so bad that he managed to be unconsciously noticed by that woman, and therefore she can and does interacts with him.
Now, to the second point. I’ll confess that I’m not quite sure about this one, but here it goes.
Notice that Hana’s life force is low because of her weird condition. Then, let’s also make use of the fact that this never happened before to her (till’ now), and we never saw someone else in that condition (explicitly explained/seen as it is, i.e.).
If that life force thing it’s there so you are protected from ghosts and the like, it could also mean that it prevents you from seeing them – I’ll grab my point about ghosts each having different types of power and presence, and apply it to this scenario.
Hana (now life forceless) it’s now recovering by eating, and she sees this little guy, who’s a special one as it can be noticed more easily by – let’s add to make it more likely – women. She doesn’t react because it makes sense in her view and the kid doesn’t try to interact with her. She probably stops seeing the ghost kid by the time she starts eating (we don’t know if this is true since there’s no info to back it up, but I think it may work like that; her life power was low, so when it recovers a little she stops seeing the kid), and then only our MC has the jumpscare.
Hope I didn’t mess up while explaining, and feel free to disprove my theory. Till then, I’ll just wait and see.
