What the mc meant by "candy bullets don't rlly pierce thru anything" is that sugar coating the harsh reality you face won't change the outcome of it.
At the beggining of the story the MC only seeks out bullets. That means she want to face reality (unlike her shut in brother). That is why she wants to apply for the task force.
The seafoam girl comes along and creates stories about being a mermaid in order to cope from the abuse she faces at home. Everything she says about being a mermaid is just candied bullets.
Towards the end of the story the MC started realizing that and she also chose to seek out a candied bullet, a childish idea, which was to run away even tho the seafoam girl was never going to leave her father or be able to escape from him. She was always going to die and I think she may have known that.
Some things that foreshadowed her outcome: The story she tells about the storm on the beach every 10 years and then repeating that story like twice later on. When she tells the MC about her father, she says she loves him and later on in the story the MC's brother talks about stockholm syndrome. Her killing the rabbits as an act of love, bc that's what her father did to poochie the dog. She has a skewed view of love bc of her father.
On a side note... I think the brother was assaulted by his classmate and as a result he became a shut in? It's only mentioned once but the mc doesn't know exactly why. "He was popular among the girls in his class and one day one came to his room and he changed." I found that he and Mokuzu paralleled each other in the aspect of escapism.
genuinely what the fuck bro im crying i dont even know what to say i have so much to say but i cant think of anything, like i kind of expected all of that to be just cover ups but i didnt expect the foam and storm to mean that 10/10 would never read again
there were so many signs but no one noticed, no one was able to save mozuku, she was doomed from the start. this is such a sad story about child abuse, i didnt expect id be crying at this.. this was my doomed yuri
This story was so damn touching. Like Mokuzu's death hurt even more, why? Because she could've been easily saved. There were many signs!! There were marks of abuse, people heard him being abusive to Mokuzu!! But the sole reason she died is because people didn't take proper measure and because of the negligence of the town people. IDC what anyone says, every adult in town is responsible for her death, not just the father.
how did i not see this coming smh... i was just actually believng her lies not realizing its abuse. its so sad because dont alot of abused children associate their abuse with some kind of happier fake reality to cope?! jeez i feel so sad like it was so obivious its abuse AND NOBODY REALIZED NOT EVEN MYSELF
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What the mc meant by "candy bullets don't rlly pierce thru anything" is that sugar coating the harsh reality you face won't change the outcome of it.
At the beggining of the story the MC only seeks out bullets. That means she want to face reality (unlike her shut in brother). That is why she wants to apply for the task force.
The seafoam girl comes along and creates stories about being a mermaid in order to cope from the abuse she faces at home. Everything she says about being a mermaid is just candied bullets.
Towards the end of the story the MC started realizing that and she also chose to seek out a candied bullet, a childish idea, which was to run away even tho the seafoam girl was never going to leave her father or be able to escape from him. She was always going to die and I think she may have known that.
Some things that foreshadowed her outcome:
The story she tells about the storm on the beach every 10 years and then repeating that story like twice later on.
When she tells the MC about her father, she says she loves him and later on in the story the MC's brother talks about stockholm syndrome.
Her killing the rabbits as an act of love, bc that's what her father did to poochie the dog. She has a skewed view of love bc of her father.
On a side note... I think the brother was assaulted by his classmate and as a result he became a shut in? It's only mentioned once but the mc doesn't know exactly why. "He was popular among the girls in his class and one day one came to his room and he changed."
I found that he and Mokuzu paralleled each other in the aspect of escapism.
genuinely what the fuck bro im crying i dont even know what to say
i have so much to say but i cant think of anything, like i kind of expected all of that to be just cover ups but i didnt expect the foam and storm to mean that
10/10 would never read again
How did you even find this in 2026??
somebody on tiktok edited it and they told me this was the manga!
If you want something sad and very special this one definitely hits the mark!
there were so many signs but no one noticed, no one was able to save mozuku, she was doomed from the start. this is such a sad story about child abuse, i didnt expect id be crying at this.. this was my doomed yuri
Made me h Ed ckin cry
Had to call bestie on face time to show my tears
this was my doomed yuri
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This story was so damn touching. Like Mokuzu's death hurt even more, why? Because she could've been easily saved. There were many signs!! There were marks of abuse, people heard him being abusive to Mokuzu!! But the sole reason she died is because people didn't take proper measure and because of the negligence of the town people.
IDC what anyone says, every adult in town is responsible for her death, not just the father.
how did i not see this coming smh... i was just actually believng her lies not realizing its abuse. its so sad because dont alot of abused children associate their abuse with some kind of happier fake reality to cope?! jeez i feel so sad like it was so obivious its abuse AND NOBODY REALIZED NOT EVEN MYSELF
Wait she's only 13?? damn her thoughts were so complexed I thought she was like a 15-16 at least