@AlexMCS ,
@Human_the_2nd Thanks for reminding me. It's been near over a year since that chapter came out. (
edit: omfg that was chapter
69: https://mangadex.org/chapter/359143? god how far we've come).
@MC_Gigglepants I totally forgot how intertwined Hayase('s bloodline) and Fushi were. She's been there since vol 2, which, at this point in the series, may as well be the beginning.
I do wanna say, the earlier parts of the series focused a lot on mortality in contrast to Fushi's immortality, and there was always a consequence, usually negative, to Fushi's intervention. Then did Renryrr arc's ending on a high note only signal that much graver consequences were to come? I'm assuming Hayase, and now Mizuha, are manifestations of some corrective force that is supposed to keep the world in equilibrium, and Fushi saving the world did a lot to throw that off balance. Now it's coming back to him in full force, and Mizuha losing her shit is just the tip of the iceberg.
(Or were the
Knockers the manifestation of balance and Hayase just a crazy, maniacial power- and immortality-hungry piece of work that everyone says she is/was? I forget tbh.)