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Posted by AKK at 10:04:46 03/06/2008.
Thank you for your review. I'll try to answer your questions without spoilers. :)
> Though, there are several things that confusing me. Maybe you could enlightened...?
In brief: both scenes seem to be confusing, because you missed the importance of Subaru using Kali, one of the fiercest aspects of divinity, to call upon his family kami the Sun goddess. By calling his own kami through Kali, he opened himself to Kali - thus from that moment on, he basically struggled against Kali's perception of the scenes and gradually lost.
> 1. In Romiro's death scene, did the one who kill him was Subaru, or The Sakura? This part is confusing me... @_@ Is The Sakura possessed Subaru to use him as medium to "punish" Romiro?
A bit of both + Kali.
Subaru's power (and the Sun goddess) are normally untouchable for the Sakura. But Kali is enticing to the Tree (not untouchable at all). Subaru is lucid enough to realize that the Tree connects through him and directs him to Romiro.
Kali is a goddess known to take extreme measures to solve a problem. Killing Romiro is such a solution (one the Tree certainly agrees with). Subaru knows that it's wrong, but - under Kali's influence - doesn't care. All he can do is keep from following Kali's desire to dance on the corpse, but it gets more and more difficult for him.
> 2. At the end scene. This part is the most confusing one. I've got the idea that Subaru went to Ueno Park to meet The Sakura, but after that... I lost it. Did Yue appear? Where was Seishirou, or did he even there? With whom Subaru had an intercourse, or did it just his imagination? And more importantly, I've got this feeling The Sakura just acknowledged Subaru as Seishirou's heir, but correct me if I'm wrong.
He went to Ueno Park, because the Sakura has Seishiro taken in to heal. But it is no longer a truly conscious decision on his side. Kali takes precedence. The scene itself is confusing on purpose, because the chaos reflects Subaru's state of mind. At this point, he himself doesn't know for sure what happened - and he will need quite some bits of chapter 16 to find out (and even longer to come to terms with it).
Yue appeared only at the end, he wasn't present in the act.
No, the Tree doesn't think in terms of succession at that point. It thinks in terms of the Dao. It doesn't make sense for one source of the Dao to take the place of the other.
> PS: I always love footsie stuff between Seishirou and Subaru under table :) Subaru seemed already got used to it, compared with when this first occurance happened in 36 degree :)
Well. he had four months and a strong incentive (the stress from the marks ease with direct contact) to get used to it.
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