Shit, author’s giving up on keeping ‘Hikaru’ exclusively an incomprehensible eldritch horror, ch 38.3 is like them negotiating with that concept that they philosophically dug into and explored meticulously in the beginning, like likening human’s comprehension of things ‘Hikaru’ likes to that of the understanding of cats enjoying kneading, we can never truly understand it beyond it being an indication of contentment and an activity they enjoy. There could never be an overlap of such deep understanding of sensations between humans and entities such as ‘Hikaru’, ‘Hikaru’ could never understand the concepts of love and death like humans do. But ch 38.3 shows the author moving on from it into monsters and humans can both change, everyone can change. I guess it makes sense, if we stuck with ‘Hikaru’ forever being an incomprehensible eldritch horror (which I found refreshing) then there is no more character development for it. Or maybe they could have done something with the profound loneliness they gave him, something other than Yoshiki being the only one where ‘Hikaru’ doesn’t feel so lonely. *sigh* Let’s see if they do anything new with the humanizing the monster trope.
Shit, author’s giving up on keeping ‘Hikaru’ exclusively an incomprehensible eldritch horror, ch 38.3 is like them negotiating with that concept that they philosophically dug into and explored meticulously in the beginning, like likening human’s comprehension of things ‘Hikaru’ likes to that of the understanding of cats enjoying kneading, we can never truly understand it beyond it being an indication of contentment and an activity they enjoy. There could never be an overlap of such deep understanding of sensations between humans and entities such as ‘Hikaru’, ‘Hikaru’ could never understand the concepts of love and death like humans do. But ch 38.3 shows the author moving on from it into monsters and humans can both change, everyone can change. I guess it makes sense, if we stuck with ‘Hikaru’ forever being an incomprehensible eldritch horror (which I found refreshing) then there is no more character development for it. Or maybe they could have done something with the profound loneliness they gave him, something other than Yoshiki being the only one where ‘Hikaru’ doesn’t feel so lonely. *sigh* Let’s see if they do anything new with the humanizing the monster trope.