The third struggle is having to actually sit down and learn hands and fabrics because you dont want to disappoint Shirahama but that one can wait
I've been watching HugzLive's first time read series for the manga and I'm a bit surprised by how enjoyable it is, and I know I'm gonna run out eventually, so I've been looking for more series like this. The only other one I found was this one. I've also seen some disconnected readalongs of individual chapters here and there by other channels, but no other full read-through series.
Does anyone know of any other people doing live readalongs like this?
Been re-reading so I can catch up. I feel like this and the moments leading up to this get a bit lost in the leadup to Silver Eve festival (even in this chapter, Coco's breakdown is interrupted by Custas showing up), but it honestly might be the most gutwrenching individual moment in the whole series for me.
She knows exactly how this kid is feeling, knows exactly what she wants and needs to hear, how she's is going to feel for years to come once she's denied, and knows how close she really is to getting what she wants, and why she'll never have it. And she's the one who caused that wonder to sprout. And this is what's going to happen every time she inspires a kid who's just like her.
And whatever she says, she's also saying it to herself all those years ago.
Obviously other witches struggle with this too, but it's just infinitely worse for Coco who's been on the other side. How much harder is it to respect the rules when you yourself are a living example that maybe things don't have to be this way? She knows better than anyone what a great witch this kid could be if she was just given the opportunity.
Like... the Brimmed Caps do so much heinous, vile shit to try to get Coco to slip up, and I have always fully trusted that Coco will never fall for one of their plans. But this small exchange that the Brimmed Caps have absolutely nothing to do with? If she handed that kid her pen, inkwell, and quire, right then and there in broad daylight with the cops watching, it would feel like the most natural thing in the world.
It all just feels so... cruel.