Kikiskeeter

First things first, Samus that is a wonderful figurine definitely the best you shown us yet. And uh, wow, you really are a girl. That would make you the first lady to communicate on the internet that is actually proven to be a woman. (I'm old school internet, you know back when every 18 year old blond with big tits was a 48 year old balding male living in his mother's basement. To think people really did hook up back then, scary.) As for the the next chapter I feel we will see some attempt by Reiji maybe test the waters with Rin, there was another preview panel that had Rin dressed very much older looking and very much Aki-ish, Reiji maybe purchased her a whole outfit for a "date" maybe? Of course maybe we see Rin spoil it by having Aoki show up.

Here is a link to that pic:http://watashiya-kaworu.cocolog-nift...post-f3a6.html

That was why I said early I thought it was time for another of Rin's Birthdays.

Newnonimous

Yeah she does look much older. i guess this proves that K.W. intends to keep the story going as time passes in it. This would give us some major results in the characters maturing rate. As for Reiji, he may finally move in with his plan when Rin reaches 16, so we'll see.

Kikiskeeter

This also could be Rin trying to look older for Aoki and it ending up a double edged sword not just catching Aoki's attention but Reiji's too. Seeing he more than likely figured out Rin is getting interested in sexual things and a change in wardrobe could make him think she is trying to catch his eye unless she lets it slip that it is for someone else. I could in the future see Rin doing a contrived plot to make it look like to Reji she is interested in one of the class' boys due to Reiji threatening to report Aoki to the board of education again after she gives a little too much info by accident.

Newnonimous

It may sound like a good idea but the part that concerns me is that we don't know how jealous Reiji is with other males that she may be interested in, he may even be against her seeing boys her age and may tell her that they may try to rape her(not that he would put it in words like that). It's just Reiji only wants Rin to love him and him only, nobody else and if Rin does tell him that she loves someone else he may do something drastic.

Kikiskeeter

Well, then if he does attack this person it would only push Aoki into a definitive course of action. Any way I would have Reiji just chalk it up to her youthful mind forming temporary crushes on boys, Aoki, then somebody elae and could cause him to try and get her to form one on himself so he could act on it and make the whole ordeal look like it was none other than Rin's idea from the start. This is just off the top of my head no real proof that the story could head in this direction. I see Reiji figuring out the more he tries to make her his more she will separate herself from him. She already stated if things don't change she realizes she can't continue to live with Reiji. And he will let his desires flow in a different direction.

Newnonimous

That would be completely irrelevant. Reiji doesn't have the strategic mind to develop a loop hole on Rins plot. He also isn't exactly prudent when it comes to Rin fully aware of what his motives are. And as others feared, if Rin decides to leave him he will go for Mimi but i still find it difficult to occur as he hasn't planned any backup plans.

Samuraisedge

For starters, that's a great figure you've made 'Dark Samus'. It must have taken alot of painstaking work to craft. Thanks for sharing. As for my theory to what will happen in Chapter 58, my guess is that Reiji is certainly going to dig up information to what Rin was doing on the porn websites. I think when he finds out about what we already know, it could go one of two ways. He'll either try to accelerate his plans of molding Rin into being Aki's replacement (which seems the most likely path) or he might try to get her to cease and desist. What's the more pressing question is how Reiji will react if he finds Rin has been fantasizing about Aoki. This could send him into a blind rage and cause him to go after Aoki personally, or try to take legal action against him. On the opposite end, if Aoki suspects Reiji is going act out on his hair-brained plan, he might take action of his own in spite of his promise to Rin not to. Either way this has the makings for a fire storm. As for Rin, if she thinks Aoki might be in harms way, she could act one of two ways. One, she could tell Reiji that it's a boy in her class (like Kikiskeeter said) to get Aoki's head off the chopping block. Or two, she could pretend that she's interested in Reiji, if for no other reason to calm the waters. Scenario two seems a bit of a reach, but then again, she did plan to marry him at one point so that Reiji wouldn't be lonely. Rin has a knack for putting herself on the front-line when it comes to protecting people she cares about, so anything is possible. This is just my theory.

Kikiskeeter

Well, all I say at predicting were the guys are going is hard. She pretty much has the guy fleshed out as being almost complete idiots at times, so how Rin would manipulate the scenario could go any direction. But the more it goes on the more I feel there will be a epiphany for Reiji and realizing what Aki really wanted from him: To raise Rin right and see to here happiness even if it is at the expense of his own happiness.

Also if you go over to K.W.'s blog, volume 7 was hit with a mature label in Taiwan.

Samuraisedge

Actually, naive would be more the word than idiotic. Aoki is naive because he doesn't take Rin seriously and tries to down-play her actions as just a mere phase. Reiji is naive because he doesn't get that Rin sees him as a father figure and nothing more. He lives in denial and tries to make Rin something she's not, and that's Aki. But because Rin is starting to look more like Aki as she get's older is what's feeding his delusions. Reiji is going to have to face reality that Rin is not Aki, no matter how much he wishes for this. Also, as you said, Rin's happiness has to be of her own making and not his. We'll see what chapter 58 reveals to us.

Newnonimous

Wrong, Aoki is taking Rin seriously he just grew acustomed to the way Rin behaves with him as she strives for attention and he just accepts it. Reiji deep down still goes with his plans but as we've been seeing he's beginning to crack from the time when Aoki told him that Rin does not want to be his wife, she doesn't see him that way. They're not that hard to figure out maybe i don't know exactly what the two are thinking in the future chapters but each of their actions begin to be clearer. Remember Reiji never had a relationship with Aki only satisfaction, he knows that doing it to someone else can really get him in trouble so he uses someone in his family as a refuge while recieving pleasure. the next maybe important this time or not we'll see.