"This Communication" was really something else...

I've read an incredible work. I've never read anything like it. I couldn't take my eyes off Deluha's words and actions, and my heart was constantly stirred by the unfolding events. I think the quality of the work is also A-rank.

For now, I'll write down the summary and my own thoughts.

Summary

Humanity is on the verge of extinction, driven to the brink by mysterious creatures called Iperit. Meanwhile, at a certain facility, six orphaned girls are being modified to carry out defensive battles.

The girls' teamwork is terrible. After all, they are still young, and there are issues with their origins. Naturally, there are casualties in every defensive battle. However, they lose their memories from the hour before they die and are resurrected. Relying on this resurrection ability, they repeat reckless and dangerous defensive battles.

A soldier named Deluha drifts into this facility. He is a devil-like existence whose supreme goal in life is to "continue to secure three meals a day," and he will stop at nothing to achieve it.

Deluha decides that cooperating with the girls to defend the facility is the best way to secure his meals, and he begins to communicate with them. It's okay if the communication fails. He can just kill everyone within an hour of the failure and redo the communication...

The meaning of the title

The title "This Communication" has a double meaning. Let's start with that.

"This" communication

Originally, communication is something that cannot be redone. "If only I had said that back then." "Why did I say that back then?" Everyone faces the uniqueness of communication while harboring such regrets. However, between the "girls who lose their memories before dying and are resurrected" and "Deluha, who doesn't mind killing his comrades," the uniqueness of communication is lost.

If Girl A says something that saves Girl B's heart, just kill them both and reset. After resurrection, wait for the right timing and have Deluha say those words to Girl B, and her favorability will skyrocket.

Communication that has lost its uniqueness, like a part of a save-scumming game. I suppose this is what "This Communication" means.

Deluha, who tries to create the best human relationships with a cool face while killing the girls over and over again, is a devil himself. But the director continues to employ Deluha, prepared to fall into hell together. After all, if the defense fails even once, everyone dies and it's over.

"Respect each other, have thorough discussions, take time to find the best solution, and reach a consensus..." You can't say things like that in an emergency. If you were in the same position as the director, wouldn't you have no choice but to keep employing Deluha, prepared to fall into hell?

Discommunication

Furthermore, this title is pronounced the same as "Discommunication." In other words, this work is also a story about the failure of communication. In fact, communication between Deluha and the girls is full of difficulties. Sometimes they are unintentionally hated and fall into a crisis during a defensive battle, and sometimes their favorability rises more than necessary.

Most vivid of all was the final communication between Deluha and the girls. That discommunication left an unintended miracle in the world.

...Well, I'm not sure how to put it. That was an incredible scene.

Communication can have its meaning distorted to fit the desires of the receiver. I suppose that means it's both a difficulty and a source of hope.

Deluha's devilish nature and competence, the rapid pace of the plot, the sheer dizzying speed of it all. It's a masterpiece that manages to shake you up while providing top-tier entertainment.

*Also, Itsuka-chan is the cutest.