Prison Lab - Vol. 6 Ch. 33

[MangaDex]

 

[G-P]

I would be surprised if this manga ends on a happy note

 

[Siquall]

@G-P

Yeah, same here.
It would be good if both could forgot everything and go back to these times, but i don't think it will be easy.
Especially now with the other player daughter dead, he will become really really crazy, something like the other women was.

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

I kinda hope they don't wimp out here.
I read this story for being an edgefest and I'm kinda afraid the author doesn't know what makes his story fun so far, with all that moralized stuff lately

 

[SilentCrucifixion]

The problem is the girl can't properly explain the real reason she bullied MC. As soon as it comes to light that she did it in a misguided attempt at making him stronger so he can stand with the "new, stronger" her this manga is gonna turn into MC + girl vs. organization.

 

[8mnifarious]

@G-P - If anything, the author has done a good job leaving the possibility (and several others) open.

Spoiler

A nasty betrayal, three years of suffering, the fact she targeted others (remember the tied up, naked, crying guy from chapter 1?), and the fact she bit his finger off makes a happy ending seem unlikely. He is understandably livid, and now both given the perfect setting for revenge and freed from his previous inhibition towards standing up for himself, he is all too eager to pay her back. Even the revelation of what caused her to do what she did wasn't nearly enough to make him reconsider. It doesn't erase what she did and he isn't about to let her forget it. It's a shame, as what happened to her was indeed terrible. Had she sought help and confided in him, they might have come together as two broken people helping one another heal. Instead, she chose to piss it all away by acting like an absolute cunt. Even if making him stronger was her true warped intention, and bullying & victimizing was a shitty way to vent anguish over what happened to her, she took it way too far. Before this little intervention, she was reveling in making the lives of people she deemed weak miserable; recall how she confronted the MC in the classroom in chapter 1, all the names she read off when first captured, and how incredulous she was that someone (particularly the MC) would give her a dose (and then some) of her own medicine. Her sophistry about social Darwinism, preying on the weak to make them strong, rings hollow to me. I think she came to truly enjoy it, until it became too enthralling to give up (even while having to resort to others doing the dirty work for her). After how weak and helpless she had been made to feel, she got to experience what the other side felt like, and let it consume her. Which makes her current predicament and potential bad end deserved in my opinion.

All that said, there are plenty of other possibilities. As @Siquall pointed out, both of the other participants could become obstacles; Punished Dad is a wildcard at this point, while we know the Femme Fatal/Psycho Bitch wants a piece of the MC (in several ways). Perhaps Eyama decides to jump on the crazy train and join her in mowing down anyone who even looks at them funny from here on. They seemed to have fun together killing her vicitm after all. Or maybe she (and/or the organization boss) turns out to be more of a monster than Eyama can stomach, and he decides not to burn all his bridges leading back to the life he's led up until now. Despite his declaration to ultimately kill Aya, Eyama would have likely done it by now if he were truly capable/willing. He may claim to be resolute on the point of making her suffer, yet he seems to be struggling with how to proceed; even if at the very least he won't be going back to being the cowardly bookworm he was before. His handler points out that despite all that he has done, Eyama is still (somewhat) softhearted at his core, and seemingly tries to get him to take pity on Aya. The friend in another uncertain factor. I foresee her being hostile and exacerbating things at first, with Aya confessing her misdeeds and forcing a choice: believe it and apologize to Eyama, or deny it and claim he is the only one at fault, thereby further stoking his blood lust. Either way, I suspect it will all come down to what the boss has in-store for everyone. My gut feeling is he will manipulate events such that Eyama is forced to chose between killing Aya (and potentially her friend as well) or refusing only to face social persecution and/or death. We've seen that Eyama hates being manipulated, and is only keen on getting his revenge. Having someone get in his way, reveal they potentially had a hand in the whole tragic series of events, and trying to strip his newly found and enjoyed agency might just put an end to Eyama's quest for revenge while kindling in him the desire take down this final boss. Whether he survives, saves the girls (plus potentially everyone else involved), and we get a happy ending remains to be seen.

Personally, I think it will be a mixed ending at best.

 

[CyBerK]

@8mnifarious
True. How could she possibly think that she would be forgiven, just from that?

 

[theloginsneversave]

>the place i could return to
>i'll crush it with my own hands
SUCH a good line used in such a stupid context. love it anyways

 

[degfiledge]

Nah fuck them all. No mercy.

 

[RyoukoKonpaku]

There's big chance also for an ending where he and Kirishma will go down in flames together. While he's soft-hearted, he can't possible still forget all the suffering she inflicted to him on all those years. While he may find solace on forgiving her in the end, but I it's likely he'd rather kill her then forgive her while he kills himself somehow either due the boss' interference or upon realizing himself that he's too far gone to go back. I mean psycho girl looks like she wants to die in a blaze of glory as well, so maybe it'll end up like that.