Of Angels Watching Round (Yami no Matsuei)

[ghost_of_banquo]

Summary: Most people who come to see Kurosaki-sama have to wait, if they get to see him at all, but then Tsuzuki isn't most people.

Comments

[b_hallward]

And the way, horribly, everything has changed -- and nothing at all has.

Which is utterly typical. Or rather shows that, however I try, I can't seem to find anything that trumps Meifu's essentially entropic nature.

where now it's Hisoka who won't let Tsuzuki go, any more than Enma would

Well, Hisoka wouldn't let him go in Kyoto; and whether, setting aside Hisoka's motivations -- the knot of love and selfishness -- that was in effect a kindness or cruelty isn't all that clear, especially since nobody seems to know what happens to spirits expunged by Touda's fire. Would it have been just another cycle of suicide/damnation/punishment, or a means to achieve some kind of rest, or just total self-annihilation? Who knows?

Of course, Kyoto doesn't exist in this timeline, but I think this situation was meant to be similarly ambiguous, carrying something of the same dilemma. And, honestly, I have trouble picturing your Hisoka running into that burning warehouse, not because he doesn't love Tsuzuki or isn't brave and nervy, but... playing high stakes poker for Tsuzuki's body? Yes. Running into burning buildings without any sort of plan? Not so much. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I realize this is on some level a Kyoto-arc reworking/replacement -- only instead of Tsuzuki imploding, he explodes and takes a lot of Meifu with him; Muraki doesn't completely jump off the tracks and Hisoka exchanges running-into-burning-buildings for spells and knowledge and a giant power grab.

But, however you interpret the ambiguities, I suppose it is rather horrible.