Thank you Daphie and Nakain ♡♡♡ dream team!
My thoughts on this chap
1. Rion is so suspicious and catty aghhh why did Ogata tell her. I know she's just a teenager but I get the feeling she could stir up some nasty drama. The subtleties of the main and even minor relationships in this manga are just so amazing – at first, it's just some minor quirk of a character that we get in passing and eventually we see consequences. Just like the comments Satoko's mom made. Rion was so pushy earlier and eventually Ogata told her off, and now in that panel with Ogata crying, I read that flush on her face as guilt/remorse. Though I'm probably reading into it too much lol.
2. I ADORE the themes woven throughout the chapter - parent and child (chap 32), now black and white. The storytelling is just so incredibly graceful, and wow it keeps getting better and better.
3. Ogata realizing how the Mashuu she knows is made up of pieces of Satoko makes me think of how Mashuu's dad kept seeing his mother in him at the grocery store. It's like a parallel of Satoko as a mother figure. And a more obvious parallel - her haircut even matches.
Everything Mashuu is is in some way shaped by Satoko and that's so beautifully sad and also quite scary? He adores and loves her with his whole heart but he's just a kid with his whole life ahead of him yet all he can see is her. I'm so conflicted over this, damn good writing.