It wouldn't make sense for Aoi to have her memories, much less fake her engagement with Teru, because we see Aoi at the start of the world reset and she is acting as if everything is normal, with no worries at all.
While Nene was confused and consumed by a sense that "something isn't right" and Teru was punching Akane in the student council, begging for answer, Aoi's only goal was enjoying the festival with Nene, which would be an extremely weird reaction to suddenly having her numb hand working again and being in a whole new world.
Plus, Aoi already knew Nene would be the star of their class play, something we and Nene, who are only familiar with the old timeline, had no way of knowing was the case.
So Aoi's memories and priorities do not match ours or our protagonist's right now.
The final thing that make me sure the engagement isn't some grand elaborate plan is that Aoi explains to Nene of all people that Kou is "Teru-Kun's brother" acting as if she is more familiar with Kou than Nene and using first names when there is no one to put on a show for.
Teru was as confused as Nene, everything Akane had explained the readers had been news for him too. He was scrapping for answers, even the most basic ones about the situation.
He is still prodding for more information. He does not have the upper hand here.
Even in the very wild possibility that Teru found Aoi first while searching for Nene and both awakened her memories and convinced her to have a marriage plan, it still wouldn't make sense? Cause Aoi had called Kou "Teru-kun's brother" from the very start.
Aoi also brought her mom into this marriage.
She never mentions her mom in the original timeline, so her mom will only visit the festival in this new world (once more, she is living in a different reality from the one we know.)
She is not the old Aoi, she acts way too different: determined to ignore Akane, clingier with Nene, and openly showing her anger/displeasure with Teru.
So I can't see her 'pretending' to be amnesiac. Or Teru pretending to be confused.
This feels genuine:
Teru only becomes smug when he notices the news has a giant effect on Akane, before that, he was just plain confused.
Which brings me to the second part of the ask.
"do you think this is the plot way to force Akane to join forces" and I don't think so. At least, not yet? It's hard to say with the minimal information we were given on the situation.
On the broad strokes Nene, Teru, and Akane are already on the same team the three don't like this reality. They don't want to be here. They miss their old world.
These two panels are after the 'Aoi engagement with Teru' reveal but this has been his mental state from the start. There are a lot of gags about the engagement and I do adore how pathetic Akane is in it, but he doesn't suddenly hate this new world because Aoi can't be with him.
He had hated it from the start.
The way he never includes himself when talking about how this timeline could be 'better for some people' is telling enough.
I have no doubt Aoi's engagement is one hell of a motivator but he had explicitly told us "I didn't have a choice on this, the only choice I had was to stay a clock keeper and hold on to any power I can" from the start.
But you may be asking if this is a plot device for him to have a proper team up with Teru and Nene, a true join forces and become a unit case! Not just a 'similar goal' type of deal.
Which... I find it unlikely.
Aoi's getting a big involvement will make Akane worried, will make him want to protect her, but I just can't see him asking for help, he trusts Teru to keep her safe, so no need to be glued to her side, and he is the kind of idiot who tries to do everything himself, even when his situation is unfair.
(Aoi still doesn't know he made a contract with the keepers to save her life, and he had kept his double life secret from his classmates for years, not letting it slow down his class rep duties, for example.)
So I can picture him hunting Tsukasa alone (and not mentioning to anyone, because that his duty as a clock keeper and of course he wouldn't shove it on someone else, especially when everyone is so angry with him for ruining their present.) but maybe the plot make his hunt cross paths with Nene storyline (which we know will involve hanako) or the wedding somehow (Akanes and Minamotos have history that involves sacrifices and their marriage begs the question of "what changed? why are they united in this timeline?") AND THEN a proper team up happen?? Honestly i have no idea.
It's too early for me to have a clear idea of what Aidairo intends to explore with Teru and Aoi's engagement but my hope is that it serves to flesh out Aoi and Teru's character and their home situation.
(Honestly, I just want Teru and Aoi to have a proper talk. It's a crime that the best teru and aoi conversation we have is from a spin-off. )
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It might sounds crazy what I'm boutta say...
I think this whole new timeline is just another elaborate plan of Tsukasa, which is needed in order for them to destroy No.1 Yorishiro.
It's a trap to deceive the clock keeper into changing the original timeline into an "ideal" timeline. Which is exactly what Tsukasa needs in order to give a trigger to Yashiro in destroying the yorishiro...and returning their timeline again. Tsukasa is confident in her.
I think something we might have not considered before, is that Yashiro is the actual rotten root. Not Tsukasa. Which is why it's highly possible to return to the original time line.
Tsukasa is just a bait so that the clock keeper focuses on him, and does not meddle with Yashiro.
Amane might be part of this elaborate plan as well, since he's probably the one spreading around the school mystery rumour of Tsukasa in this new timeline.
It is unknown how he would know of this (or if he has his past memories) but I speculate it has something to do with the thing or entity that is inside Tsukasa. It probably has devoured enough creatures to be strong enough or even resistant against the law of time by clock keeper.
We have seen the thing inside Tsukasa meddling with the timeline before, which is the red house. So it could be possible!
Oh now that leads to the question,
Will Yashiro destroy the yorishiro before they return to the original timeline? Or after they return?
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Heyy I found something, I always thought the twins' birth year was 1956 because their 4th birthday fell in 1960, but apparently the correct year for the 4th anniversary is 1959!!
This is the original, fuck- why would they change the year????
(Sorry to bother you, but I wanted to share the information-)
Maybe they changed it in the official translation, but if you found the original, then this really must be the correct one.
I saw some people making calculations based on the date that appears on the school panel when we see Amane from the past, but we have this part where Nene says that she went back 50 years in the past, when she meets little Amane, and well, unlike the what people say, the year they are in is not 2015, because
1964 + 50 = 2014
hmm….. Amane's age also counts
I remember you once asked me about this and I said that we could only know from the original, because for some reason we don't know, they changed the date in the translation…
I would like to know why….
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