Binged all the way through to the end （/TДT)/ cried and teared up here and there.
Him in that apartment with his friends was so damn heartbreaking.
This is a piece of fiction, yes, but ptsd doesn't heal as quickly as you'd wish for it, if it heals at all. So I actually enjoyed the repetitive nature of the story where Yiseon breaks down and gets back up only to go down worse. And Hyeon literally is a psychopath or whatever, it's as expected that he confirms his feelings (to himself) slowly and admits it in the face of a crisis. That's a classic trope, and I actually love that.
Also the dungeons were so interesting! And so glad that the guild members weren't filler characters. Enjoyed the display of their abilities. And the art direction was really nice too. I have so many favourite panelsss. Great storytelling, may have been loopholes but meh whatever.
Dammit they're too adorable
Also kids let me join in looks fun (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
Read Ch 45 on a different site and seeing Mr Shaw's chibi at the end credits page hurts （/TДT)/
*cries* Ex aside, I'm glad their lunch was going well! It was nice how they worked through the problem and were having a good date!
*breathes* I'm just slowly taking the details in.
Can't get over the painting, in particular its meaning. How it connects the beginning where Jean is told that he resembles a tiger holding a little pearl in its mouth, how the words transform into a painting by the end. How that is the evidence that Jean had been looking for so desperately of Maximin being Little Pearl (although his identity didn't matter to Jean in the end). And how in it he acknowledges Jean as his, 'Mon cher Jean', as Jean had always referred to himself in his letters 'Your Jean'.
How they are the existence called "Little Pearl" to each other.
That Jean was there at Maximin's end, but unlike their promise, they were not *together*. As if that wasn't angsty enough, Maximin ended his life using the gun Jean gave him to protect himself (most romantic shit ever, ugly crying)
Regret and death go hand in hand.
This story (Novel as manga) is really stunning.
But I don't get why Lady Ariel had the letters : did Maximin give them to her? Or was there a student movement in the pensionnary with some aristocratic students eager for new rules?
lady ariel is maximin's school mate, if I'm not mistaken? the one that she mentioned to jean before is maximin
I haven't read the novel (yet). Some details get lost sometimes. I'm guessing that Maximin probably did give Lady Ariel the letters and briefed her in such a way so that she could pose as Little Pearl, with how even with direct confrontation he denies being Perle. And Cornell knew about it too, so they thought of the greater good and kept it a secret from Jean. Maximin and the others probably thought that would help Jean to let go of him for the sake of the rebellion. And of course, there might have been some secret student factions who supported the rebellion too, but that was probably passed of as unimportant background information.
You're certainly right. Imagine been this poor Jean : everyone played with him. They knew it all and he was treated like a fool, just providing the money. No, not just that, but if I were him, I would totally devastated. All I believed and had faith in were untrue.
Mami I'm was right when he told him that his patron was no different than the Eirhard's family. They used him. For a good cause, maybe. But they grew him the way they wanted.
And despite all that, I can't hate Maximin because he willingly planned and gave his life for this project..
Really a deep story! (and we haven't talk about Cornell !!)
Biggest cliffhanger of this century aaauurrghh