Shi ni Aruki Chapter 34 Discussion

LastLuminescence said:
Natsuki died when Tokiko decided to be by her side (damn ninjas cutting onions :c)

LastLuminescence said:
Curious thing, if the Kurosu family really had killen Tokiko. Maybe they would have lived (If Aoya did not kill them later c:).

"Every time Tokiko made a decision prioritizing herself."

So...

Tokiko's soul was compensation for giving her body life.
Her friend from the orphanage died when Tokiko decided to leave the orphanage or when she decided not to take any memories of it.
Her classmate who witnessed the teacher's murder (which honestlym the victims from the serial killer seem to me to be a case apart from the curse) died when Tokiko decided that she would not commit suicide.
Tokiko's father died when she decided to pursue her own happiness.
Her brother Hiroaki died when she decided not to take the elevator to probably not be with her family because they were a nuisance (like she did with her classmates at first).
Her sister Haruka died when she decided to apologize and who knows maybe she thought to say a few words about the death of her family or maybe the truth of what happened.
The next members are complicated, maybe Kinue died because of Tokiko's decision to not let Kinue kill her; Ayako probably died because of Tokiko's decision to call her family, so as to not to go see her sister-in-law die and leave; her brother Takahito died because she decided to express her true feelings for her family (although she couldn't).
Rina died when she decided that she wanted to learn to cook from Miyuki (not because her sister offered to teach her but because she decided to learn, different to her usual her).
Miyuki committed suicide when she took back her decision to seek her own happiness.
Detective Yashiro died when he decided to go against her "friend's" decision and tell the truth.
Aoya died when she decided that she wanted to live.
Natsuki died when Tokiko decided to be by her side (damn ninjas cutting onions: c)
When Natsukidied, Tokiko realized that she had nothing left so she decided to die, her compensation? Kisaragi.
Finally when she wrote her will and told the detective about it, her compensation was her own death.

I have mixed feelings for Natsuki but I'm glad to realize as I write this that Tokiko, although she didn't do it as the others hoped, she wanted to live and, sincerely, that the detective Koga felt sorry for her and saw her as a person made it better.

The detail of the blood where they died was a plus.


The only thing that tears me apart is to think that Tokiko always lived for others or at least that was what she had always thought, first for her father, then for her sister Miyuki and finally for her friend Natsuki and when they died she had nothing.
And, in the middle of that, if she wanted something, someone would die for it, Tokiko you are beautiful.