by CLAMP, 180 pages
Quiet, tired Kakyo, a dreamseer for the Harbingers, visits recuperating Kamui in his dreams and tells him he is not the only one with an opposite self, that someone else close to him is hiding another side of themselves...and it quickly becomes clear who. Why, Kakyo asks, does Kamui--why do any of them--insist on fighting a future that has already been seen, especially when doing so just causes them all more pain? Because they can't help but hold onto the hope that the future is not yet set.
I think Fuma and Seishiro's rooftop discussion about where to get good ice cream is almost the most disturbing scene in this series to-date. As they pass the chocolate-chip cone back and forth, Shibuya shatters into rubble and flames around them, the cries of the people in the streets and buildings and trains lost in the noise of collapsing concrete and twisting metal. The unexpected appearance of a potentially significant character in Kakyo's dream at the end of the volume goes a little way toward countering that darkness, but it's going to take a lot more to overtake it completely.
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