All up a real roller-coaster. The pacing is the weirdest of them all so far imo, but not necessarily bad, but it makes up for it with tons of super raw moments (Rena's tearful confession to her friends, Rika confronting Rena, Keiichi remembering the events of Onikakushi, basically the whole ending sequence and especially the rooftop duel).

I will say though, while in hindsight the big picture of this chapter feels satisfying and makes sense, I found this probably the most annoying to actually read since Onikakushi - I guess because the odd pacing makes you wonder why certain elements are being thrown out and a decent chunk of it does kind've feel like an Onikakushi redux til it finally clicks that this is actually a tragedy-farce.

Also I found some moments didn't really hit right at first until elaboration - like, the flashback where Keiichi shoots a kid in the eye was genuinely disturbing, but the initial framing of 'Keiichi used to menace little kids with a model gun and feels horribly guilty over it' felt a little overdone. It wasn't that the events themselves were absurd, but the framing felt a little vague and undercooked. I guess telling not showing, essentially. And ofc it's fine in the end bc we do get that detail, but it did stand out to me.