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After promising to not leave Kaya alone, Ran unexpectedly makes a new friend. A new friend…that’s not Kaya. As Kaya has finally begun socializing with his classmates, maybe he won’t mind a new person entering Ran’s life?

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My thoughts on this volume (Spoilers!)

Kaya is an absolute menace in this volume, but what else is new? As his relationship with Ran becomes more and more convoluted, the people in Ran’s life begin taking notice. While she and Kaya are absolutely in a toxic relationship, can anyone really do anything about it? Kaya is a rather terrifying existence, and Ran seems to treasure him in her own way. I don’t think anything could be done to separate them, and I don’t think either party wants to be separated in the first place.

While Ran still seems to think of Kaya as a familial addition to her life, Kaya clearly sees Ran as a romantic addition to his life. Their relationship, from Kaya’s point of view, is clearly a lot more complex than just romantic, though. While at the end of the day I do think he sees Ran in a romantic light, I think he may be confusing some of his emotions. In this volume, we learn that Ran really is the first person his age to truly want good things for him, without expecting anything in return. So, I think it’s safe to say that while Kaya has had “friends” and “girlfriends” in the past, he hasn’t had true connections with anyone—until he met Ran.

Maybe it’s because Ran is the first person he recognizes as truly caring for him that he goes so absolutely crazy when she’s involved. She’s his first everything. And when I say he goes crazy—he goes crazy. Kaya is the type of crazy that you really can’t anticipate. All you can do is witness it and try to stay out of his way. This leads to some incredibly toxic, though entertaining, scenes.

I would say the most toxic storyline in this volume is the love triangle composed of Kaya and one of Ran’s classmates. The classmate, who boldly told Kaya that he has feelings for Ran in a previous volume, most definitely spent this volume regretting his actions. As Kaya will seemingly stop at nothing to stomp out any and all threats to his relationship with Ran, who knows what he will do next?

My favourite parts of this volume (spoilers)

💛 Kaya tying Ran up in bed so that she couldn’t attend school that day — the classmate sharing his feelings for Ran with Kaya really set poor Ran up for a bad time.

💚 Hoshii’s entire character—she’s almost as crazy as Kaya is, just in a different way. She’s also incredibly true to her toxic self, and I really admire that.

💙 “A demon entered my heart at a young age, I can’t be blamed for what I do when it takes over my body.” – Hoshii

❤️ Ran and Nasu not realizing they’ve been playing online games with each other the whole time! Their names are literally in their usernames!!

💙 Nasu finally recognizing just how insane Kaya is. The poor boy was having an internal crisis the whole volume.

💚 The scene of Nasu finding Kaya and Ran!!! He thought that if he made some noise they would realize someone was there and stop, but then Kaya opened his eyes to make eye contact with him! Kaya wanted Nasu to see them!! Oh my god!!

💛 Kaya licking Ran’s tears so he could “see the same world as her”. I don’t get it, but I like his admiration of her.

💚 Ran explaining to Nasu that Kaya tied her up at the beginning of this volume (it was done somewhat jokingly, in her bed with her blanket), and Nasu misunderstanding as him holding her captive. Kaya has poor Ran absolutely traumatized.