Sooooo much emotional heavy lifting happens in this volume while also suddenly changing the landscape of the Yona & Co Hiding Out While Saving Kohka storyline and it’s so good. It’s just so damn good. I teared up multiple times, and mostly because of HUGS.

The Yona & Hak chapter here was lovely, the depths of their love for one another keeps being explored without either of them realizing the other’s feelings.

Also, the more we see of Suwon, the more emotionally and politically complex the story gets. I’m never gonna stop crying about how Suwon destroyed his best friends for a reason that makes more and more sense as we learn more. It gives the trio’s complicated feelings for each other and their past so much weight.

THIS SERIES IS JUST SO GOOD