Finally got around to reading this!! I've been meaning to read your other projects but I keep getting busy with things orz
This was so heartbreaking... I wasn't sure exactly how it would end, but even if I knew it likely wouldn't be happy, the ending still felt like a gut punch. I couldn't help but hope that Tsubaki would finally step in, say something, do something, especially when everyone cut Kojima's hair. I kept hoping something would be the final straw, but I guess that's the tragedy of it all, that til the end, Tsubaki was too afraid to be honest with herself in front of anyone else.
Seeing Kojima go from laughing about how God must have a reason for her to suffer this much, to just so bluntly repeating that she wants to die, hurt so much. She reminded me a little of Aiko, at first, with her firm belief in in a higher power, so to have it revealed that she clung to these beliefs out of necessity rather than being groomed into it by someone else was a different sort of heartbreaking. To see the mask shatter so completely, to reveal that all of this pain truly has been getting to her and that she's not just some 'weird' girl who accepts the beatings happily because it's God's will, was so painful...
I love how your writing flows, how it always kind of feels like a stream of consciousness, something written down in a notebook in one go. It makes the characters feel so real whenever I read it.
I'm looking forward to hopefully reading your other projects soon!!