Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi - Ch. 54 - The Outer Sides That Never Intersect

[MangaDex]

 

[Excel2021]

What if I made you immortal, haha just kidding unless..

 

[UdenEmpati]

Interesting to me that Azami has used her immortality--over centuries of time, it would seem--solely to hunt down Shiori.
Maybe she actually has lived a long life, done all manner of things, and now this is the pursuit that fills her time. Perhaps she believes that killing Shiori will undo the curse? Or this is simply revenge for being forced to live far beyond the span of humanity.

Shiori states that Azami is more dangerous than all the other monsters that have come for Hinako, and I am inclined to agree; immortality seems alluring, but many, many stories involving gaining such a quality result in the person who obtains it going insane at the realization that it means watching everyone you care about die, and everything you cherish slowly rot and decay and erode away by the winds of time. Having it forced upon you unasked would be that much worse, I expect.

So it makes sense that Azami would seek some form of vengeance. Whether it does anything about her condition, there's a lot of "humanness" behind the simple desire to enact reciprocity upon the one who harms you.
Beyond that - I think Hinako is being set up as Azami's foil, both as humans associated with Shiori, but also for Shiori herself.
Shiori calls Azami her enemy, whom she will never see eye-to-eye with. Meanwhile, she pledges to protect Hinako, whatever the cost. Two almost diametrically-opposed stances toward two humans that share her blood, and one representing the "Monster" in Shiori, and the other the "Savior".

Just a lot of fun mirroring of concepts and elements among the characters. This is all rather fragmented on my part, but they're just the things that jumped to mind upon finishing this installment.


Thanks for the TL. Can't wait for the next.

 

[lilyoftheRiver]

Be careful there, Hinako! saying you would never hate Shiori for making you immortal and she just might do it.

 

[zairaner]

Very tsundere of you, shiori.

 

[BrotherCoa]

Why I have a feeling that Hinako will be the one to help Azami and Shiori to become close again?

Azami considers her existence as immortal as a mistake, such wasted opportunity to live in the shadows and help as many people as you can. Nevermind accumulating knowledge and money over centuries and becoming as powerful as some countries.

What I am interested right now is that monster that follows her. What is her deal and ultimate goal?

 

[shemper]

Thank you for your work!

 

[quantumcroissant]

Wait, is centuries the right word there? I was assuming that the war that happened just before Azami tried to blow her up was WW2

 

[UdenEmpati]

Wait, is centuries the right word there? I was assuming that the war that happened just before Azami tried to blow her up was WW2

I'd have to go back and look - but didn't Azami leave for a period before coming back and attempting to kill Shiori?

It could be that she was first "turned" centuries back, then came back again after a long stretch of time and tried to kill Shiori. But I'd have to find that section to re-read and verify.

 

[UnvalidUserName]

Wait, is centuries the right word there? I was assuming that the war that happened just before Azami tried to blow her up was WW2

I have the same doubt. But maybe she was just hunting her for centuries before that encounter. Also, I'm not sure if it was WW2, those bomb she used looked too antiquated, It might have been after the Russo-Japanese War.

 

[ThanatosKaiAnastasi]

Wait, is centuries the right word there? I was assuming that the war that happened just before Azami tried to blow her up was WW2

It's possible that their confrontations began much earlier, but I think I will still change the translation to avoid making a guess.

 

[BrotherCoa]

Wait, is centuries the right word there? I was assuming that the war that happened just before Azami tried to blow her up was WW2

As others stated she blew her up in either WW2 or Ruso-Japanese war.

But when you look into her side-story she was made immortal a really long time ago, it may be even before Sengoku Jidai era.

 

[Okuu]

|>Makes a human immortal who then has a life grudge against her and tries to attack her over hundreds of years

|>"Whose path and mine will never intersect"


FISHWOMAN PLEASE

 

[Heck493]

would it not be extremely easy to just put her in a metal weighted container and drop it into the deepest part of the ocean never deal with her again.. idk this feels like such a manufactured problem that makes 0 sense in any capacity.

 

[HCO]

This yuri is extra-doomed

 

[Lonbomb]

Never intersect? Not even a little bit?

 

[erana1]

Why I have a feeling that Hinako will be the one to help Azami and Shiori to become close again?

Might be. It was correctly called that it WOULD be a race betwen fish-girl and fox-girl to rip Azami into very, very small pieces if she threatened her, and you might just have called what actually prevents them from doing so (because our girls seem to be roughly equal in power and both seem to be quite more powerful than Azami); what makes Azami dangerous is deviousness, not power, and if either of them gets her fangs/claws/rusty-chainsaws-with-piss-covered-blade-so-it-hurt-more on her, the result WILL be dismemberment down to cell level- at LEAST. But, Hinako? She can stop either of them dead on their tracks.

 

[Saon]

What are the odds that Azami is the reason Hinako lost family?

 

[UdenEmpati]

What are the odds that Azami is the reason Hinako lost family?

nonzero, but I hope it's not the case.
Azami being responsible for the single biggest tragedy in Hinako's life would feel too much like a cliché. Not everything needs to be interconnected, and I think having Azami as the "antagonist" seeking to destroy Shiori via Hinako is enough of a through-line in Shiori's larger story within the setting.

Sometimes horrific and painful events happen and it's the fault of no one. And they are no less painful and horrific for it, nor are they less "earned" in the story by being random chance when it comes to the narrative journey of a character - Hinako's plight isn't enhanced if there were an architect behind the beginning of her journey, in my mind. Azami using her to get Shiori is all the connection needed between them.

And on top of that, the chapter with the flashback where a younger Hinako encounters Azami, doesn't give the impression that Azami knew who she was prior to smelling Shiori's blood in her - which wouldn't track if she was the one who orchestrated the death of Hinako's family. If she had, I would think she would have appeared as Hinako's "auntie" far sooner, rather than seemingly several years onward, if only to cement herself in Hinako's life in a more foundational way.

 

[dowiet]

Interesting to me that Azami has used her immortality--over centuries of time, it would seem--solely to hunt down Shiori.
Maybe she actually has lived a long life, done all manner of things, and now this is the pursuit that fills her time. Perhaps she believes that killing Shiori will undo the curse? Or this is simply revenge for being forced to live far beyond the span of humanity.

Shiori states that Azami is more dangerous than all the other monsters that have come for Hinako, and I am inclined to agree; immortality seems alluring, but many, many stories involving gaining such a quality result in the person who obtains it going insane at the realization that it means watching everyone you care about die, and everything you cherish slowly rot and decay and erode away by the winds of time. Having it forced upon you unasked would be that much worse, I expect.

So it makes sense that Azami would seek some form of vengeance. Whether it does anything about her condition, there's a lot of "humanness" behind the simple desire to enact reciprocity upon the one who harms you.
Beyond that - I think Hinako is being set up as Azami's foil, both as humans associated with Shiori, but also for Shiori herself.
Shiori calls Azami her enemy, whom she will never see eye-to-eye with. Meanwhile, she pledges to protect Hinako, whatever the cost. Two almost diametrically-opposed stances toward two humans that share her blood, and one representing the "Monster" in Shiori, and the other the "Savior".

Just a lot of fun mirroring of concepts and elements among the characters. This is all rather fragmented on my part, but they're just the things that jumped to mind upon finishing this installment.


Thanks for the TL. Can't wait for the next.

it really boils down to misunderstanding and miscommunications through action. Good intentions but bad results.