Riku and Josh are quite cute as expected of Kitahala-sensei but for once my heart has stolen by a side character
Jing…oh Jing my beloved
Nogi, Nogi, sweetie who is it that you couldn’t reach hmm? That last bit looked like there’s a story behind it so I hope we get that
My mans came in hot. I thought he wanted Yota at first.
Bought this (the raws) a while back and things seem good now but the last page of last chapter and the preview for the next volume are, ah, ominous to say the least ٩( 'ω' )و
Oh no, now ur making me scared. Σ(っ°Д °;)っ
Only just realized it’s no wonder I recognized the use of out-of-focus panels from somewhere ROCK’N’DOLLESS queen of the angstiest code geass djs I am prepared to have my heart destroyed by your original stories
thanks to the summary I came in expecting a rom-com and was slapped in the face with this beautifully introspective piece with such tender storytelling....damn. I’m definitely going to buy the physical copy when i can get my hands on it
first off to whoever uploaded the raws THANK YOU second of all...the friend is a true bro I hope he gets a story of his own bc it’s honestly such a waste for him not to when that whole last chapter is just setting you up to get attached to him!!
I’m just gonna come out and say it his ex is trash. Like, I get it. Your boyfriend is a war zone photographer, he’s probably gone for long stretches of time & there’s always the threat of danger following him around. If he disappeared for five years it’s not wrong to think he might have died.
HOWFUCKINGEVER theres something deeply wrong if your first reaction to seeing someone you love(d), whose last known whereabouts was a FUCKING WAR ZONE and getting mad at him asking why he hadn’t gotten in contact and accusing him of making up an excuse about being in an accident. He was in A FUCKING WAR ZONE and you accuse him of making up excuses about being in an accident? No “are you okay” no “what happened to you” no idk, thought to the fact that maybe he couldn’t???? Get in contact??? And of course, bringing along your new boyfriend, completely disregarding your old lover, even promising not to get involved with him anymore? Is that the kind of attitude you have for someone you grew up with, and fell in love with? Someone you were with for not five, not ten, but TWENTY FIVE WHOLE YEARS? What the hell?
My heart hurts so much for the mc because he didn’t just lose five whole years and his boyfriend, he lost his family. He lost his best friend. They literally spent their entire lives together, as far as he was aware. And the dude threw him away like a used rag.
I’m sure there was some kind of grief involved, but even if I wasn’t in love with them anymore, unless they did something unforgivably terrible or stupid in front of me, I would never treat someone I was in a relationship with, someone I spent that many years of my life beside, like that.
Man oh man I cant wait to fucking bawl my eyes out for these two again, this series is guaranteed to make you cry
Look if I’m going to be completely honest this story gives me Big Heavy Mixed Feelings and it’s definitely a lot to chew on and there are definitely parts that made made me go “uh, nah” HOWEVER y’all do realize that the author of the original novel...is a Gay Man, writing from His Own Damn Experiences growing up Gay in Japan, right. I’ll repeat that, Asahara Naoto is an Out Gay Man whose Gay Life Experience is the foundation for some of the world views that are portrayed in this story. I can completely understand why some ppl may be uncomfortable with some of the stuff that’s portrayed but immediately slapping this with labels like “fetishized” and “unrealistic” and the like is uhhhhhh kind of pushing your own biases and worldview to front while disregarding real experiences that queer ppl in Japan and other conservative Asian countries go through. Also, just because a fictional story HAS portrayals of certain taboo elements in it doesn’t mean that it’s condoning or romanticizing these elements, & if you think it does you should examine why you think so.
Just came back from the novel (I’m like…almost halfway through? but planning on taking a break ANYWAYS) plz guys keep in mind Sion is a very very unreliable narrator incredibly unreliable esp re: a lot of events in the first life and re: parvellone. you can kinda get a general sense of it already but sion was pretty isolated in his past life! some of that is parvellone’s fault yes but much of it was actually sion’s own doing as well which is why you’re not going to learn things like the international political situation or
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Or the fact that Parvellone motherfucking cut off his own damn left hand (the one with the stigma on it) and sent it in a box of salt to actual!Siennas as a last ditch effort to try and end the pointless bloodshed (it doesn’t work) OR THE FACT THAT HE REMEMBERS EVERYTHING
Also, more importantly poor Sion was actually right on the number about Parvellone’s affection towards him it was just needlessly complicated by God (shaking my fists here) and Parvellone’s position/duty as the Angel of Destruction. Basically Parvellone’s mindset is that he is a tool of God and his ultimate duty is awaken the true bearer of St. Zeon’s stigma (aka Sion) and the only way to do so…is to die. So that entire time, he tried (and failed, spectacularly) not to get too close to Sion because he’d just end up leaving him anyways. Except. Well, as Parvellone puts it, it’s much easier to get caught up in faith towards something tangible compared to something up in the air. At some point, rather than being God’s faithful tool…he just wanted to be Sion’s. And that was where everything went wrong.
Parvellone, in Sion’s memory is this figure who’s incapable of failure, or something close to it, but that couldn’t be further from the truth… he’s just a man who thought he could go against god’s will and in the end doomed himself and everyone around him for it, including the person he treasured the most. Just…so many things went wrong or didn’t work out.
But guess what!! He didn’t abandon Sion, he never thought about that. He knew he would die and so be it, but he just wanted Sion to be happy and he was going to set him up in the neighboring country with a little farm and everything. It was too late, but he came back for Sion. The Grand Temple collapsing? That was all him. Sion wasn’t crushed to death by a falling set of wings btw, Parvellone found him before he died from his injuries, they had their first and last kiss, and then Parvellone basically altered Sion’s memories so that he’d think that version of events things opened up with was real, before killing himself to try and save Sion by awakening his stigma.
Except that isn’t what happens, what happens is Parvellone wakes up to the moment he gained his own stigma after being poisoned, and he despairs, because why would Sion do this? And then there’s more despair waiting to come! Because when he manages to get to the south for “recuperation,” Sion isn’t there. And for the next 15~20 years (no idea how old they are, but they haven’t hit their thirties yet), Sion still hasn’t appeared! All the way up to the coronation, where Parvellone once again finds himself at the mercy of God’s whims.
Because, you see. The stigmas of St. Zeon never appear by themselves, and the one who holds the stigma of the Angel of Destruction can feel it when the true St. Zeon’s stigma is nearby.
Parvellone has known this entire time Sion woke up in Siennas’s body.
Yo ok, i only read the first paragraph cus i really don't wanna get spoiled(im chapter "17", in qoutes cus it's more like a volume) of your comment but it's legit truth.
The ammount of times my jaw dropped with EACH revelation. I screamed so many times, i want to talk to someone about that certain chapter soooo much. Which sucks cus there's not a single spoiler thread that talks about stigmata at all...or is there??? Cus last time i searched it, a diff novel comes up
Ok just decided to go for it and read your whole comment. I feel the exact same way...
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The moment when parbellone escapes and causes destruction in the grand temple and Cassian basically "giving back" his stigmata was chef's kiss. Parbellone really laid down divine intervention on everyone there, especially OG siennas. Fuck i really teared up when Parbellone and the dying Zion finally reunites, all i could think of was that "Zion wasn't abandoned "
I wish Parbellone's pov of the past was longer cus i was SUPER immersed.
Legit though, i feel like i read a chapter in the manwha where parbellone was going to rescue Zion and i can't help but feel like it actually exists(the image was vivid in my head). Though now that i read the novel, i feel like it might have been my wishful thinking and i dreamt it, wanting a parbellone POV of when Zion got crushed by the angel statue.
It's too bad my reading of the novel slowed down cus after Parve and Siennas/Zion "got together", it's now SUPER risky to read the novel in public cus WHEW. The smut is so fucking detailed. I wasn' expecting the smut too, i thought the novel i was reading was the r15 version but im not mad at the actual reveal lf the ratings, cus im kinda mad manwha version is r15(r18 is in the works but who knows if we'll ever get to read it)
There's a novel?!! Where did you read????
Do you have the novel link? Can you drop it here or DM it?
That’s crazy! Omg
Here ya go. There's no actual fan translation available but you can machine translate it. Surprisngly one of the lost readable MTL out there ngl. It helps having already read the manwha for more context
https://booktoki309.com/novel/2042130?stx=%EC%8A%A4%ED%8B%B0%EA%B7%B8%EB%A7%88%ED%83%80&book=%EC%99%84%EA%B2%B0%EC%86%8C%EC%84%A4
this makes so much sense now after reading ch 38 because if u think those memories are Parvel’s then it makes it all the more sad to read especially with the contrasting pictures of sion and siennas body both being held by parvel
God. Fuck.
I knew shouldn't read spoilers
But this sorry little bitch just can't handle suspense.
Thank you so much!!!
I tried to search for spoilers, but couldn't find any!
I mean, this will break the narrative for me.
BUT THAT'S ALL ON ME
NO.
WAIT.
since this one's r-15...... we won't have those yummy scenes?!
NOOOOOO
*BTW, I'm really sorry about my flood of replies
I guess not :/ but there is an r-18 version in the works!! We might get to read it....in probs 2 years lol.