Yofukashi no Uta - Vol. 17 Ch. 164 - Curse

[MangaDex]

 

[Pouco-chan]

Oh shit, this is like Romeo and Juliet, right? Even with pedo thing and meaningless romance, which ends up with them dying of stupidity. Whatever, the important thing is that the two became flour! If she was going to die like this, this bitch could have done it sooner and saved everyone from the drama~lol

 

[Sh1ny4]

welp did not expect this, great chapter !

 

[ieatass69]

Hey that actually made my opinion of her a bit better at the end

 

[TrenchMotif]

Oh shit, this is like Romeo and Juliet, right? Even with pedo thing and meaningless romance, which ends up with them dying of stupidity. Whatever, the important thing is that the two became flour! If she was going to die like this, this bitch could have done it sooner and saved everyone from the drama~lol

The only thing it lacked was the feels. I couldn’t have cared less about either of them passing. I enjoy romantic tragedies but when they’re two people that you don’t care about, the sun rises and we move on. She appeared more as an enemy than a misunderstood lover and he appeared as more of a simp.

 

[Ven20]

From my understanding, the confirmed theory is that by drinking a loved one's blood, a vampire will die (regardless of whenever they turn human or not since it's not clear), and I presume in the last pannel of the last chapter, Mahiru, right after turning into a vampire, bited Kiku back, so that would explain how they both died here.
(Of course this is all just speculation since we Mahiru's mouth is hidden behind the hug)

And since I'm at it, if drinking a loved's blood will kill the vampire, my theory on why is that, as a vampire weakness is an important object from their times as humans, a human weakness would be an important object from their times as a vampire, aka the blood they just drank; but this would conflict with my previous theory since Kiku would be turned back into a vampire after being bitten.

 

[jesuscristo]

Oh shit, this is like Romeo and Juliet, right? Even with pedo thing and meaningless romance, which ends up with them dying of stupidity. Whatever, the important thing is that the two became flour! If she was going to die like this, this bitch could have done it sooner and saved everyone from the drama~lol

mentally bankrupt comment

 

[catsdontsmile]

This is such a toxic fucked up chapter. Kiku is a suicidal ancient vampire, who uses charm on a teenager, wrecks his mental health and drives him to suicide. And everyone watching is like ohh yeah, that's love, that's his choice. Fuck no kou, you should have stepped in and saved mahiro after Kiku died. Thrown your jacket to cover him. Held him down with your half vampire powers. Done. With Kiku banished mahiro wouldn't have been able to commit suicide as a vampire.

 

[BadmanBlues]

A good tragic ending to a good tragic arc.

 

[Saon]

Should've expected something like this to happen. But even so, hits harder when you are expecting something good even after all the shit she pulled up till now.

Thank you for keeping the good translations going!

 

[Snoopybo]

Is this shitty arc finally done now? I don't care more about Kiku then I did 3 months back and I still find her a selfish woman who manipulated everyone for her own selfish gain and she somehow still won in the end in her own way.

I hope she stays death and we finally can move on after like 20 chapters of chapters full of flashbacks,bad climaxes and lackluster endings.

 

[ForTheJerusalem]

And just as expected he said sorry cuz he was going to die with her, was a nice arc but i do hope that we can return to the main story now.

 

[Obunger]

So now is the part we get to see the protagonist actually be part of the story?

 

[Gem-Bug]

Thanks for the chapter! Hopefully better ones are ahead.

 

[Qanon01]

From my understanding, the confirmed theory is that by drinking a loved one's blood, a vampire will die (regardless of whenever they turn human or not since it's not clear), and I presume in the last pannel of the last chapter, Mahiru, right after turning into a vampire, bited Kiku back, so that would explain how they both died here.
(Of course this is all just speculation since we Mahiru's mouth is hidden behind the hug)

And since I'm at it, if drinking a loved's blood will kill the vampire, my theory on why is that, as a vampire weakness is an important object from their times as humans, a human weakness would be an important object from their times as a vampire, aka the blood they just drank; but this would conflict with my previous theory since Kiku would be turned back into a vampire after being bitten.

Really?? Damn i missed the panel where he bit her back, if that's what even happened? Was pretty sure he died because of the sun exposure

But then the question is, where did mahiru learn that by doing so will result in his own death?
Because so far none of the vampires we know of do actually knows the true outcome of the love rumor mechanism

 

[CinderSquall]

Honestly bittersweet that it was Kiku to be the first one to reach a helping hand to Mahiru back then.

With this arc seemingly on it's end, I'm still confused why people still think Kiku is this evil schemer, when the person herself outright mentions they are pretty dumb and just tend to brute force things.

Lastly... neat, a nihilistic vampire and a nihilist human. Tragic and somewhat expected(anybody thinking Mahiru would get out of this alive have to share their happy juice)... Really brought me back to my college days when I was thrusted into the position of trying to help a fairly decent amount of broken people... Wasn't the best days of my life mentally and emotionally.

 

[CinderSquall]

This is such a toxic fucked up chapter. Kiku is a suicidal ancient vampire, who uses charm on a teenager, wrecks his mental health and drives him to suicide. And everyone watching is like ohh yeah, that's love, that's his choice. Fuck no kou, you should have stepped in and saved mahiro after Kiku died. Thrown your jacket to cover him. Held him down with your half vampire powers. Done. With Kiku banished mahiro wouldn't have been able to commit suicide as a vampire.

I still don't know how or why people think Kiku used charm on Mahiru... especially when we saw how charm actually works on someone. If Mahiru is actually charmed his conversation with Nazuna wouldn't happen.

Also it wasn't Kiku that wrecked Mahiru's mental health it was his mother, ironically enough it was Kiku that initially saved him back then.

Like yeah Kiku is very selfish but she isn't this devious evil person that people seem to think her as.

As sad as this may sound, forcefully "saving" someone can and does lead to them ending up in a way way worse situation which will inevitably result to them offing themself... but with a lot more mess involved...

 

[StaticTransit]

From my understanding, the confirmed theory is that by drinking a loved one's blood, a vampire will die (regardless of whenever they turn human or not since it's not clear), and I presume in the last pannel of the last chapter, Mahiru, right after turning into a vampire, bited Kiku back, so that would explain how they both died here.
(Of course this is all just speculation since we Mahiru's mouth is hidden behind the hug)

And since I'm at it, if drinking a loved's blood will kill the vampire, my theory on why is that, as a vampire weakness is an important object from their times as humans, a human weakness would be an important object from their times as a vampire, aka the blood they just drank; but this would conflict with my previous theory since Kiku would be turned back into a vampire after being bitten.

If you recall, Susuki said back in chapter 121 that there's a theory that if a vampire sucks the blood of a human they love, the human will die.

 

[catsdontsmile]

I still don't know how or why people think Kiku used charm on Mahiru... especially when we saw how charm actually works on someone. If Mahiru is actually charmed his conversation with Nazuna wouldn't happen.

Also it wasn't Kiku that wrecked Mahiru's mental health it was his mother, ironically enough it was Kiku that initially saved him back then.

Like yeah Kiku is very selfish but she isn't this devious evil person that people seem to think her as.

As sad as this may sound, forcefully "saving" someone can and does lead to them ending up in a way way worse situation which will inevitably result to them offing themself... but with a lot more mess involved...

Let's say she didn't charm mahiro, you think that seducing a teenager, goading him into leaving all his friends and family, all to help her commit suicide, isn't toxic behavior? Not to mention the trail of ruined lives and ruined lovers she left in her way. The detective's father, the teacher, everyone cleaned by face mask vampire, etc.

Kiku, a grown woman, seduced some depressed kid in highschool and made him help her kill herself after he fell in love with her. Kou and company shouldn't have backed off from fighting Kiku, she quite literally drove mahiro into suicide. And again, I can't stress this further, mahiro is just some kid who hadn't even finished highschool and who comes from an abusive household. He's a victim here and he was manipulated the whole way through.

 

[dekaisan]

Glad this arc finally ended. I just want to see more kou and nazuna spiciness. Maybe throw in some susukippii in the mix might be nice too