Chihayafuru, volume 20, chapter 104 And a little bonus,
Chihayafuru Calendar 2013 cover with Chihaya and the card of the titular poem.
What a sad end of the year this is... Taichi, y u make me sad?
Oh, Project K... why are you doing this to me? I realize they were only fictional characters, but still, how come I cried my eyes out and now have to search for the mechanisms to try and cope with that damn ending, huh? With an ending like that, the whole story just feels hopeless, and empty, and friggin tragic, because no matter how much Munakata tried, in the end, he could do nothing to prevent the tragedy with Suou; moreover, he himself ended up a wreck of a man in the process; and the answer to Weissman's 肩を並べて同じ道を歩くことはできないのかな (I wonder if there's a chance for those two to walk the same road shoulder-to-shoulder) is a fuckin capital 'NO'. Out of 5 kings who were introduced, 3 are dead and 2 are on the way there - one because of old age, and the other because of the sheer magnitude of emotional suffering and guilt he's now saddled with. It's like the main and nearly only point of the whole damn series was a dragged out, slow and painful death of the Red King, and not much else. The heck is that, I'm asking... At this rate, the only thing that can be expected from season 2 is Munakata undergoing the same agonizing ordeal as Suou before dying as well. Well, fuck it, seriously, fuck it.