I have had a tough time the past couple chapters keeping up with how often we hop to different time periods. I am guessing this new monster-but-not-hiruko thing is going to connect back to the past somehow, but I don’t see how yet.
Yeah - same here. There’s no break of any sort really - just from one panel to the next we go from one timeline to another.
There’s actually been quite a lot of that that throughout the series and it wasn’t until late, when character connections started to be revealed, that I realized it. And I suspect that there’s been even more of it than I realize - that there are still things that haven’t made sense yet because I haven’t fitted them into the timeline.
And I also sort of suspect that the confusing timeline isn’t just a storytelling quirk and is actually going to be plot-relevant eventually.