hello, did you realized that bortz was smiling to cinna and prolly dia thought "they never did that with me??" cuz I can't recall bortz smiling in any other circumstance. Also PHOS BABY LOOKS LIKE A VILLAIN
BORT IS SO BABY AND PHOS IS TOO AND SO IS SHINSHA I’M SO WEAK THIS CHAPTER
ahem, yeah. they almost half-smiled during the shiro arc (when dia says ‘the distance helps me see how much you mean to me’) but still not even close to how often they’ve been smiling/half-smiling these past chapters
i find it amazing how, the instant ‘war’ was out of the picture, bort started smiling.
even a character who was described as a battle-maniac and as someone who actually enjoyed fighting turned out to be negatively affected by centuries of war (duh).
now they’re happier, more carefree, and they can choose the path they like most and not the one that’ll be most useful to society. it’s very sad it took this long to get here and it’s very sad it took for phos to go through what they’ve gone through, but i’m glad miss ichikawa is making a case for pacifism.