Also it would also be interesting if there ends up being a connection between this inner monologue and the memories that Paku shared w/ the founding members at the end of yorknew. Her death scene ends with "Pakunoda did this because..." & then trails off
chrollo, someone who sees people as interchangeable puppets, thinks of troupe members as replaceable parts of a whole and had no issue replacing the other dead troupe members... will not replace paku.
Within context this monologue is about chrollo being a fake idgafer. Don't assume that he's not emotionally affected by her death. even the fact that we have seen his grief for everyone else he's lost and haven't rly seen his grief for her yet is sus to me
i'm not saying you can't wilfully ignore canon to your heart's content, but i am saying some people could use a closer look at canon because i fear we may collectively be losing the ability to interpret source text and extrapolate out from it
I realized that on top of chrollo's silhouette being visible through the page, him and paku are the only ones wearing black in the reverse panel, which makes the translucent effect seem even more deliberate. plus all the white space to make it easier to notice