Ura Baito: Toubou Kinshi - Ch. 229 - Fixer ➁

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I guess the 2nd guy is the dad?
The Japanese comment theorized that the app was Yume. Last page of the first part, there was a -kudasai in the app's text with da written in 'lowercase', iirc. Then 'kusai' is 'stink', Yume's thing.
 
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I guess the 2nd guy is the dad?
The Japanese comment theorized that the app was Yume. Last page of the first part, there was a -kudasai in the app's text with da written in 'lowercase', iirc. Then 'kusai' is 'stink', Yume's thing.
Fully unlocked Yume who knows the rules to all the gray being used for the fucking app is genuinely diabolical work from Q lmao.

LIke if it is the case it makes sense that's what they'd use her for. It makes things a lot easier on Q if they can use the endlessly exploitable population of earth to commit all the necesary rituals to keep things rolling with minimal downsides.

And all they had to do was engineer Yume's entire life towards tragedy.
 
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From the previous chapter, it sounds like the world is unraveling. We always thought it was weird how the Grey didn't appear to affect the planet, even with stuff like the Briefcase, as it was never mentioned after its chapters. But I guess it all has been falling apart after all. Just nobody was looking at it.
 
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thanks for the chapters! man I hate how this manga leaves us on so many cliffhangers and only gets back to them 10 or 15 chapters later.

The author keeps us so hungry hahaha
 
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oh actually I like this development, zooming out and seeing the rest of the world fall into chaos.
 
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No girl, no! You’re doing so well! Don’t screw it up now for the love of your brother!
 
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From the previous chapter, it sounds like the world is unraveling. We always thought it was weird how the Grey didn't appear to affect the planet, even with stuff like the Briefcase, as it was never mentioned after its chapters. But I guess it all has been falling apart after all. Just nobody was looking at it.
It was manageable, because of a certain being reset the world for em but now it's unravelling as more and more god-entities start taking action while architect not give any do-over
 
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I really like this dreadful mood. I think it's not necessarily the world was always being unaffected, just we were following two people who had their own troubles. The world is big, and when you're left to live a way where all you can do is put one foot in front of the other, over and over....

I think that's a lot of the horror of this kind of setting. The feeling of the weight of all the little and big atrocities piling up, and I bet some of us still thought but if you get paid that much...

I think the smile of her mother might have been the scariest sight in this chapter. Kind of another sad reflection, here at the end. The things you do for love.

....I hope Yume's siblings are okay. Feels like the least Q could do is set up a trust.
 
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Fully unlocked Yume who knows the rules to all the gray being used for the fucking app is genuinely diabolical work from Q lmao.

LIke if it is the case it makes sense that's what they'd use her for. It makes things a lot easier on Q if they can use the endlessly exploitable population of earth to commit all the necesary rituals to keep things rolling with minimal downsides.

And all they had to do was engineer Yume's entire life towards tragedy.
oh so that might be the big brain move from Q then.

Making use of her power to help people do gray jobs. Maybe completing thse gray jobs will help saving the world?

In another note, it would be bittersweet if sorta like the Adventure Time ending - the girl we see in this chapter is an incarnation of Nagomi, being helped by Yume in the form of an app. Sorta like being together in another life thing. I know it's a stretch but hey one can dream/theorize.

But man the mother in ways can be scarier than the monsters/supernatual.
 
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Not truly related to strictly this chapter, but the guy in the thumbnail image for 230 looks like the cheerful guy from the search party for Jun job.
Probably not intentional, just funny.
 
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oh so that might be the big brain move from Q then.

Making use of her power to help people do gray jobs. Maybe completing thse gray jobs will help saving the world?

In another note, it would be bittersweet if sorta like the Adventure Time ending - the girl we see in this chapter is an incarnation of Nagomi, being helped by Yume in the form of an app. Sorta like being together in another life thing. I know it's a stretch but hey one can dream/theorize.

But man the mother in ways can be scarier than the monsters/supernatual.
I thought Q were the bad guys?
 
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From the previous chapter, it sounds like the world is unraveling. We always thought it was weird how the Grey didn't appear to affect the planet, even with stuff like the Briefcase, as it was never mentioned after its chapters. But I guess it all has been falling apart after all. Just nobody was looking at it.
In chapter 221: Demolition Crew page 17 onwards, it's explained that the "Kuroiwa family" is responsible for taking in calamities, which turns them into curses. The Kuroiwa hold back all the gray.

Problem is, unless relieved of duty by the next Kuroiwa, they can't die, and our Kuroiwa, the one who's been issuing red cases, has been alive for several centuries.

That obviously wears a person down having to absorb all those calamities/gray matters for several centuries, which is a pretty big problem, cuz those curses and calamities start to leak.

That's what all the color cases are, curses, they may not necessarily be strong though some of the colors have tended to be pretty apocalyptic so far or involving deities of some kind. That could just be the effect of the wear and tear on Kuroiwa, and as a result stronger curses are getting released.

It's also interesting, but page 21, Kuroiwa mentions the previous "Kuroiwa" had been around for centuries, which affected it's ability to hold in curses. It makes me wonder if he's talking about the previous one in the Tomb, or if he's referring to the Kuroiwa we've been following so far. If it's the latter, then that means that the Kuroiwa are either clones, which I find unlikely, or the same person that's repeating this duty, but each new version is "fresh" and unaffected by time, kinda like starting a new save file or something.

It was manageable, because of a certain being reset the world for em but now it's unravelling as more and more god-entities start taking action while architect not give any do-over
There's the Designer too, but it's not moving anymore, either out of choice because it's satisfied with the future and no longer needs to rectify the timeline or because something got to it. Like maybe the God of Nothing.
 

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