"After nine college students are trapped under a collapsed building for 14 days, only six come out alive, and only four of them can speak. The dead bodies of their fellow students are viciously mangled, leading police to investigate the case as a possible homicide. Detective Lieutenants Jeongdo Kwon and Yeongchae Shin, together with renowned neuropsychiatrist Dr. Yeongwha Ju, must parse through witness testimony and inconclusive physical evidence to uncover the truth. But how do you solve a locked-room murder case when every witness is a suspect?"
"What the hell have I been doing? No! It shouldn't have turned out like this! I never intended to betray my friends. It's too late for me..."
-from Episode 112, "The One Thing I Couldn't Say", (English sub, ~13:00), Cana's line
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Outside her apartment building, Layla waited for Natsu to recover from their ride home. Possibly because the ride was was shorter, he was able to keep on his feet this time. Though he bent over and clutched his own knees, he recovered surprisingly quickly.
It was still enough time for Layla to articulate the question that'd been on her mind practically since they'd walked into that dojo—with her usual tact and elegance, too:
"Alright, what in the ass was that, back there?"
Having only just straightened, he blinked and tilted his head. "Huh? What was in whose ass?"
She flung her arms across her chest with an interrogator's scowl, hellbent on getting to the bottom of this one no matter what. "You know what I'm talking about! All that advice you were giving back at that place—it almost sounded like you actually knew what you were talking about! And like you've coached before," she added, narrowing her eyes to try to dig into his spiky pink head. "Who knew you could be so helpful..."
"Now there you go being rude again! Of course I'd be helpful. I've shown the ropes to a bunch of my nakama—especially my kids. More importantly, I've never turned down a good fight. It's part of who I am, same as you."
"That so?" Layla drawled.
"'Course it is! I'm a Dragon Slayer after all, you know."
"Dragon Slayer?" Layla tilted her own head. The failing sun hit both their hair in a way that made the color a more vivid pink than normal, almost holographic. "I thought you said you were a fire guy?"
She distinctly remembered that story about his (maybe real) son learning a couple "fire spells" from him before getting totally inspired by his mom's "celestial magic." Whatever that was. It was the most interesting bit of lore that'd come out of that imaginary world of his so far.
"Yeah, a Fire Dragon Slayer. Actually, so's my daughter!"
He pretended not to notice the glare jabbing into his profile.
Deciding to just go ahead and give up the ghost for him since his little "convince Layla I'm her dad without saying it outright" plan had definitely not escaped her notice, Layla huffed, "Well, I don't know this daughter of yours"—she put hard, pointed emphasis on the words—"but I don't want to slay dragons. I want to be badass like a dragon. That's why I picked my fight name, even though my those media bastards call me, like, everything fucking else. Even the old man called me fucking 'Tenmen'..."
I've read so many psychological-murder-mystery or psychological-horror-mystery BUT this one Istg it's stirring my brain up with all these twists and turns...
— synopsis —
After nine college students are trapped under a collapsed building for 14 days, only six come out alive, and only four of them can speak. The dead bodies of their fellow students are viciously mangled, leading police to investigate the case as a possible homicide. Detective Lieutenants Jeongdo Kwon and Yeongchae Shin, together with renowned neuropsychiatrist Dr. Yeongwha Ju, must parse through witness testimony and inconclusive physical evidence to uncover the truth. But how do you solve a locked-room murder case when every witness is a suspect?
Sara Lee is the mother of the protagonist, Sayeon, and her sister Samin.
She was a 'career criminal' (implied to have been a mob boss and/or serial killer?). We don't know much about her yet, but given how unhinged her oldest daughter is, and that said daughter calls her 'the scariest person you'll ever meet', she clearly wasn't a nice person.
Jeonghui Shin is the mother of the main villain and of a minor antagonist, but saying more is spoilers for the few most recent chapters (I personnally would have put the names but the submitter didn't put the names because of spoilers so here you go)
she fed her daughter human flesh for years before ditching her, remaking her life with someone, apparently enabling her abusive husband in torturing the son, and then ended in a psych ward but that's not part of the awful things she did, however once in the psych ward she gave her medicine to her son who was outside and had the same condition she had because she didn't want him to have the stigma or whatever when actually he NEEDED a drugs-and-psychological help mix.
I am. So happy. (/srs) to be living in a time where people have already pointed out each and every last ableist thing about the chasing tails webtoon on here so that i don't have to 🙏 thank you. Not feeling alone in "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT SHIT?!!?!??!" Is healing every time. I can just get out my frustration and move on instead of stewing and writing to try to get some solace.
To every single person i just spammed with likes if i reminded them of this ickyness i'm genuinely sorry. I really appreciate y'alls posts existing, it's really helped me process /gen
