noda the strange fanservice god, lmfao. rip kadokura. what did usami see, though? ogata and usami duking it out is finna be interesting.

ogata says 'if i were him'. if they're on the same page here, what does that mean for vasily's character and parts of his personality that've never been revealed? what else do those two have in common besides their all-consuming snipping tendencies? i think vasily's a character whose views are best left shrouded in mystery.

here's their 4d chess bs again. tsurumi might be wrong. hijikata might've already anticipated that tsurumi doesn't think him foolish enough to leave all the skins in one area. what if one of the fake skins asirpa was talking about was the one kadokura was carrying? hijikata's team is already aware that kadokura doesn't have the stamina to outrun and fight most of the 7th, so why give him one of the most valuable pieces of info to solving the code, knowing it'd get into the enemy's hands? then again, getting usami to chase after the skins might be part of some long con tsurumi's pulling.

the whole sequence of love and procreation was,,, weird? what is it supposed to affirm? is there some sort of symbolism at play here? jack the ripper mentions the virgin mary's status as, well, the virgin mary. she's become a symbol of martyrdom for humankind. is this supposed to foreshadow asirpa's role as the revolutionary icon, doomed to misery by a future both pre-determined and continually built by her?

the wilk flashback was,, something. wilk's denial of the myth of the east wind might mean something? will this somehow tie in with the reveal of his last minute betrayal of the revolutionaries? what was wilk thinking when he killed the other ainu?

i honestly thought the last panel was a reference to the rat asirpa bashed, like, 8 or 9 volumes ago