
i hope them gay vibes are strong in this one, because i can't help but miss majin tantei nougami neuro (and i will go and reread it bruh), since its the exact same concept - one guy (or a gal, another major win for mtnn - female protag) is the puppet detective and the other person is the actual one, but nougami neiro at least is openly supernatural and doesn't have fucking. detective schools. what the fuck is up with that you can't have shonen tropes with corpses ya know
they even have some pretenciously decorated shadow council shit, even their documents are fancy

wha. how the fuck does breaking up with the guy while telling him you cannot love him and cannot imagine having a family with him supposed to help him with his dependency issues/entertainment industry related bullshit etc. like ??? that's aint a lie born out of love or whatever, that's being an idiot and trying to help the other person while not knowing how and fucking it up. distance is a good idea, all of the lying was definitely not. stupid kids. i hate misunderstandings sooooooo much

and i did not expect much but
why the fuck makoto gets a fresh new start while mikoto gets killed by one of her one night stands cos she continues getting off from nearly dying. what the hell

she got strangled to death (imagining that its makoto strangling her) and her corpse appears on the front page of the newspaper that one of the inmates in the prison where makoto is reads
makoto doesn't know? apparently? talks to other inmates about still having a girlfriend and missing her and wondering how shes doing and after getting out imagines mikoto's disgusted face upon getting told that he loves her

The whole thing about Makoto's backstory is (From my own interpretation from translations and raws) Is that the man Makoto lives with now isn't his blood relative at all, and was just a random man he used to play with in the playground when he was younger.
A fire had happened in Makoto's house, which seemed to have probably killed his parents inside, and seeing the opportunity, the man took Makoto to live with him, it seems that ever since, the man groomed Makoto and did the things Makoto does to Mikoto now.
Hope this properly explains things.
lmao I can't believe this dude - "wouldn't want to waste his time" are you kidding me. you aren't at home calling your crush to talk about sweet nothings, you were kidnapped and raped and. bro. bro what the fuck is wrong with you.