I love reading your notes! I’m feeling Fomo on 北北西に曇と往け and might have to go back and read it. Am just about done with 79 and will post mine soon.
Did you read the one shot 延長戦の雨やどり in 79? (Or anyone else? ) It’s the one-shot that starts with two kids standing under a shelter during a rainstorm.
I have some questions
Summary
From p 784 (printed) after the mini folk appear led by the guy with the cool carved acorn mask - I’m not sure if I just don’t get it or if it’s that abstract.
So the mini acorn leader says (my attempt at translating):
あなたが 重ねた努力の 香りは 我々好みの 魔力を 放っている
The scent of your hard work emits a magical quality that we like.
(so I’m guessing they want the paper cut work he just showed her).
Then going on to say it’s more brilliant than anything else and they have chosen it as something they want to worship for three days and nights. Then it will become the marriage partner for this nutter until it decays!?
And then Kuroki says it was intended for her wedding and she’ll be with it forever, so they all leave…
Did I get that right?
Then after they’re gone, I don’t understand from the bottom of 788 if that’s a flashback to when Kuroki saw him working on his paper cutouts? Basically I am totally lost from this point… and seem to have missed the significance of a lot of the dialogue.
Anyone else have trouble with this or did I misinterpret something big early on?
I’m interpreting it overall that Numata got a second chance and won but I definitely missed the significance of the whole ending sequence.