>>34137384Emerald was a damn mess but that scene really fucked me up. You can see how Maxie is terrified by the thought of having to kill Archie, and Archie does too but he quickly goes full Mind of Steel on him. "That's the kind of person I am" he even says when retelling the whole scene.
>what the fuck was on Kusaka's mindProbably the thought of making Archie the biggest edgelord in the manga. Really, the manga loves to make the villains almost literal opposites to their game versions. Even Cyrus got a redemption and a change of heart in the manga while in the games he didn't even consider it until the RR episode when RotomDex talks to him.
