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I feel like it was the governer who killed his mother. The emperor only wanted the village dead, I doubt he knew about the mother and son living in a completely different place. I mean, it was nowhere near the village. Why would the emperor who wanted to see the imai die walk all the way to their house just to shoot one imai?
My conclusion is the governer killed the mother because he knew that the imai lived for his mother. Isolating him would mean that he has no one else to rely on but him. Especially if you're going to act kind unlike every other person the imai has met. And he even has the perfect scapegoat to blame the murder on. No one would doubt that it wasn't the Emperor considering his past and the fact that the weapon was used.
Now, we must remember that the imai has no feelings of attachment to the tribe. His hatred towards the Emperor is fuelled by the fact that he killed his mother. If it is revealed that he actually did not kill his mother, the imai would feel nothing towards the emperor. Atleast not the raging vengeance he feels now. And voilà! We have now redeemed the Emperor and given the Imai a clear route to his ending with the Emperor.
The brother will most probably die or be exiled. It's sad considering he's a nice person who killed the mother. And the Emperor is an ass who kills people but just not the Imai's mother. But who knows? Maybe the emperor is going to be given an extremely sad backstory to how he became the way he did. Maybe the brother was responsible. Especially considering that one of the Emperor's guard spied on him. We're most probably going to be given a complete 180° role reversal.
Anyways, the art is pretty. I'm bored. I'll just read it. I mean, even if the plot is going to go exactly the way I described it, I'll still eat it up because it's fiction and it's something that will allow me to forget reality. And the name really does not suggest otherwise. Although it says toxin and not toxic. Is the posion in the Imai the toxin? Is it his presence in the Emperor's life? Or is both the Emperor and the Imai the toxins to each other?
I wonder if the poison is going to be an arc that we will read. Maybe they'll try to find a cure? Or maybe the Imai is not posionous considering he's a half breed and also has no name? It might be one of those scenes where the MC and ML fall for each other. Who knows? I actually can't wait to read how it will all unfold.