VVSS-K 1: I’ve been looking forward to reading these Twitter short stories for a while! I was really excited to find them, then quite sad to see that I was a while away from being able to start reading them volume-wise. Good thing I waited, too; this was pretty short and sweet, and because of that there’s no dancing around the main topic: Kazuya despairing over Kaito leaving at the end of volume 17. I thought Matsuoka’s writing here felt a bit poetic due to being forced to write shorter sentences, and I thought it fit in with Kazuya’s despair quite well with that. I mentioned it before in that thread, but I’m really hoping that we see Kazuya again, and/or have some sort of actual wrap-up to his story, rather than what we were left with at the Hoe. No indication of that here, of course, but it’s good to know Kazuya was still on the author’s mind at this point, several volumes after the fact.
猫の喉を鳴らすもの: Dang, I was really hoping for a ブラッキー story. Instead what we get is some morning after thoughts (during v21c7) from Geoffrey about how much he loves Kaito. Pretty much just fluff, that’s it. He did bring up how Kaito particularly liked his blond hair and how Alonso always reminded Kaito of it, which was a nice touch.
Good thing I waited, too; this was pretty short and sweet, and because of that there’s no dancing around the main topic: