draw Mitsuba pinning Kou's hair back! I'd love to see it from a side profile and Mitsuba looking annoyed

Hi, this has been in my inbox for like, literally ever and I've been meaning to do it, and even started on it a few times, but never really vibed with any of the outcomes. Anyway, I decided to revisit it, admittedly, because of the recent April event, hope you enjoy:

I know Mitsuba isn't annoyed, more messing with Kou, but I was having a hard time settling on a pose otherwise, I'm really sorry,,,

Hi!

I really like your blog and I wanted to ask you, between all humans characters (Aoi, Akane, Kou, Teru and Nene) who do you think is most likely to die at the end of this arc?

Sorry for my english and thank you

I am not a very good theorist, and this arc just started, but I think Nene. Maybe Akane.

For as many death flags as Kou waves around, he still has a lot of character struggles and untied ends to explore that would be wasted if he died. Plus, Kou constantly can't do what he set out to do. He promised he would take care of hanako and make sure he didn't hurt any students but all the yorishiro Hanako destroyed is what started the severance and Aoi's 'death'. Mitsuba keeps slipping out of his graps. His attempt to help kid Tsukasa backfired horribly. He had to be saved by teru when he felt weakest. Even his victory against number 6 was just used by the broadcasting crew. So i doubt his newest goal (to be a supernatural) will come true. I also don't believe Kou will die for any of his loved ones, cause aidairo loves bullying him too much for that.

If Teru had died I feel like they would have already said it... (cause ngl I would be pissed if he is currently dead and this is how his death was treated) So if he won't die here, after he got a direct hit by the 'reaper of death' in a situation where he was too desperate to keep Kou out of danger to even have a chance to defend himself, then when will he? I think you can’t die in a boundary either anyways, so he'll probably just take a back seat in this arc, cause for as much as I love him, and I really want him to have a talk with Kou I feel like there is a lot happening already in this arc. This one ain't about Teru, is about the broadcast club.

Aoi is also unlikely to die cause the broadcasting club doesn't want a severance, and Aoi's death would start a severance. Unless she gets a nice surprise character arc here (maybe tied to Sumire?? idk) I can't imagine her being part of this disaster either, she is basically an outsider to this supernatural world.

I said there is a chance for Akane because while I can see many reasons he would be able to survive, I also know he has a shit ton of dead flags: He was able to see the Clock Keepers to make the contract in the first place, despite coming from a seemingly normal home. He doesn't have any major character arc to finish (getting with aoi, if that counts, is an Aoi arc, she is the one that needs to work through her internal conflict, Akane has no problem with his feelings, and aidairo didn't give me any hints he plans on making an arc dealing with his obsession) . And while it would be easy to make Akane take a backseat here, the way the broadcast club wants the clock keeper yoshihiro makes me doubt he won't make any appearances. (Also, on a narrative level: Aoi only being able to say she loves him out loud when it's too late and he is already dead sounds like the kind of angst Aidairo would do too.)

Nene is my main pick because of how high the stakes around her are. If she lives, if Hanako does make that wish, Sakura said the world would descend into chaos, no life, no death, no borders, and that's... not good. She also expressed some sort of... acceptance of her death, she's clearly not okay with dying, but I think she has accepted the idea enough for me to believe she could sacrifice herself for a selfless reason in the future. Plus if Nene dies, it would tie-up with the idea that Tsuchigomori books don't lie. The only time a book changed was with Hanako, and he had A LOT of future interference (Kou talk with Tsukasa in the red house. Young Amane using the 5 wish slips in the festival to see Nene again, the mermaid scales tied with a girl from the future, so on) but Nene doesn't have any future interference (...that we are aware of at least) so I can't see anything that would mark her as different from all other people in Tsuchigomori library. Plus the way people had mentioned "we might need the three clock keepers powers" so much makes me believe even if her future change, it will be for the worst, and Kako will go back in time so that the world isn't in chaos and her death still happen.

And this is just wishful thinking but maybe her death will make aidairo go more in depth about the mermaids? We didn't explore their lives or what they do much.