Ogami Tsumiki to Kinichijou - Ch. 27 - Hebizono-san and the Mirror

[Erbakhan]

Man she's so beautiful

 

[LTalon]

I wonder why it doesn't affect him though

It's eye contact that causes the petrification; it's not just seeing her face. This is why he was facing AWAY from her, since he still has eyes, just invisible ones.
This does beg the question though: if she HAD petrified him, would the statue be invisible?

 

[thycondrius]

PAW-CENT??

Oh come on Tsumiki, don't abuse my heart by saying cute stuff like that...

 

[Tarage]

Snek olev

 

[isoycrazy]

What a lovely way to start a romance.

 

[Wildtale]

Hopefully this hasn't been said already, but here's my headcanon.
Kitou-kun says that, since he's invisible, he can't be turned to stone. There are two implications to this:

1. A medusa's petrifying powers function when they reflect off a person's eyes - so they must be in the visible spectrum of light. Otherwise, it wouldn't matter if Kitou-kun was invisible or not.
2. Invisible genjin do not see the world through the spectrum of visible light - otherwise, one would see their retinas reflecting light.

At least that's my take on it. XD

 

[ForTheJerusalem]

Self petrification? Sounds like a trait that would lead to the death of your entire species.

 

[JumboWheat01]

Well... this is just a pure adorable pair.

 

[UnitaryBog]

Why she ourple

 

[sarusa]

Two TL Notes, though we already touched on one:

1) Page 4, Hebizono says 'percent' in English, and Tsumiki doesn't know what that means and just kind of repeats it in various forms like 'pa---sen?' (her 'percent?' in the lower right is actually in the raws!). So I said - OH! Paw-scent! How cute. Then we did paw-cent which is still adorbs.

2) The page 5 thing is of course utterly untranslatable as is, or at least we were able to come up with anything that preserves both the original joke and why the guys are looking at him like that, so this is kind of in the ballpark. Note that any reasonable Japanese person would (I think) have immediately realized she means 'fast calculations!', the other one is a little obscure. But these guys aren't reasonable.

Edit: oh yeah, one more! On page 3 the art club guy says Kitou (Invisible Guy's name) is a kitou. So I just went with 'kiddo.'

 

[pir0zhki]

Very cute chapter and pairing. The snakes getting scolded for displaying threat when she was under stress was a really nice touch as well.

 

[sarusa]

Why she ourple

Her hair/snakes have always been slightly purple - see the opening color pages for chapter 12, for instance. It's a little darker here, maybe she's ready to molt? Or maybe just the lighting.

 

[Gu7]

That was so smooth i might die

 

[Kcplayz07]

Little irresponsible to try that on the fly, but it got us this ship so whatever.

lmao fr, alternate timeline where they both end up petrified would be crazy

 

[Encyclopedium]

THE SHIIIIIIIIIIPPPP

 

[Encyclopedium]

Little irresponsible to try that on the fly, but it got us this ship so whatever.

Yeah, they were mad risking with that one

 

[infath]

So cute

 

[Hoezell]

That's one cute pairing, hope they get together before chapter 500.

 

[Felkin]

I did NOT get expect to suddenly get hit by so much feels. What a chapter. Author continues to come up with amazing ways to do storytelling with neat gimmicks they spur from the premise.

 

[GetRekdm8]

Invisibro is definitely one of the best characters in this