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Originally Posted by sunsown

@houkoholic Thanks for the summary.

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The last picture in volume 10 with a teary eyed myuu held by akatsuki, what is the conversation between them?
In one of the coloured pictures akatsuki is shown to be shrunk in front of kuzuha. Does this happen or is it an imagination?
What is the situation that resulted in the coloured bath scene with myuu?
What is the aim / goal of cocoon1?
How was akatsuki's sister's story said? Was it told by akatsuki to the girls or was it a recollection? If it was narrated by akatsuki what was the situation that made him tell the story?

Spoiler:

That was Myuu apologizing to Akatsuki after listening to his story of how the real Miu died because she realised that Akatsuki had at least projected some of Miu onto her (including the regrets that he couldn't save and protect her) and the many times before she tried to throw her own life away like Miu did (especially the time when Myuu jumped off the cliff when Phil was chasing them) which must have triggered those painful memories for Akatsuki.

Akatsuki did shrink - it's a side effect of him using too much Renkankeikikou so the body physically shrinks to a size where it doesn't require as much ki to maintain his body functions until the body's ki reserves are fully replenished. In this state a secondary personality with its own memories and mental age suitable to the age appearance of the body (so that of roughly a six/seven year old) also surfaces to take control of the body while the primary personality (the normal 16 year old Akatsuki) resides in the background but fully aware of the situation. Since this happen after Kuzuha kissed Akatsuki it led to Kuzuha thinking that it was her fault.

The bathroom scene is when Myuu Listy and Haruka took the shrunk Akatsuki for a bath, let's just say some of the habits from the primary personality don't go away even with the secondary child personality in control, or maybe that's just animal instinct in every male's DNA upon seeing a nice pair of boobies and lots of naked bodies of pretty girls.

I guess if you speak in very general terms, COCOON's goal is making a world with peace and absolute order free of pain and suffering but with misguided totalitarian methods, quite typical of your RPG antagonist.

The story of the death of the real Miu was told by Akatsuki to the girls, he had decided to tell them the full story since last volume when the girls had professed their determination to follow him so he knows that he owns them the real story.

Originally Posted by bludvein

Is that really all there is to the whole backstory with Akatsuki's sister?

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Because I really have to say Akatsuki doesn't have the moral leg to stand upon and blame others. His brother's plan may have not been all that nice, but considering it was a last resort and Akatsuki had nothing.....Even the bit with Gouki is a misunderstanding of sorts, although I can see how it got to that point.

Spoiler:

The part about needing to wipe Miu's memory was pretty selfish on Sakuya's part because it was only to protect his identity as a vampire and his potential position as the leader of COCOON (all COCOON members adopts an alias to protect their real identity, not even fellow COCOON members knows each other's real name), also in the process Sakuya would also wipe Akatsuki's memory as well which means he would no longer remember his sister nor Miu remember him. The dilemma is there.