User blog comment:Genista882/Mitsuru and Kokoro 2/@comment-26567684-20190507210542/@comment-38094676-20190508115151

Yeah, it certainly felt strange to see the two acting like total strangers with each other, I can't begin to express my dismay when I saw those episodes.

I don't remember which episode it was, but Goro or someone else mentioned that not only were MitsuKoko's memory wiped, they were also given false memories. I don't even know how this is possible but let's say they have the technology for it, the two of them may have false memories that aren't exactly endearing, but placed there to have the opposite effect. I think those false memories contributes to the apparent coldness/indifference between the two.

Then there's this, many years ago in another fandom, someone told me that to the Japanese, what comprises the soul is our memories, so if this got wiped, this person essentially loses their soul. Can't verify this so it could be all headcanon for all I know lol. (The topic about memories and soul came up in that fandom because one of the endings have the MC lose all his memories so he could live his remaining life in peace. It was labeled the bad ending, for the reason given above.)

MitsuKoko had a partial memory wipe, so if going by that belief, then I'd say their souls were partially 'rewritten' as well, so they're not the same people we knew before. Ugh.

Kokoro must have been feeling the changes in her body due to pregnancy. Any girl will say how those hormones can mess up your mindset, your mood and alter your thought process as well. In other words, not really the best time for Kokoro who probably was still trying to cope with all that's happened.

So yeah, things aren't very 'inducive' for a relationship, unlike in Mistilteinn, they had a full month of leisure, to spend time together to grow close naturally. Now, everything is tense, they know there's a big battle ahead unlike any other they've faced. It wasn't really the time to be thinking about relationships when they could die in their next mission.

We could say that it was only after Papa and the adults left that Mitsuru finally allowed himself to reflect on his relationship with Kokoro. So this was when we see him showing signs of concern, but he didn't know how to approach her outside a 'professional' relationship, I kinda see it as a boy with his first crush haha, so awkward, so hesitant.

Kokoro...I think she was hurt when he said that he can't see himself developing such feelings for her. I guess, she may not know the reason why, but it must have affected her to the point that she has raised up barriers against getting hurt again. So she kept an emotional distance.

Both of them kept their rings. whether instinct or partial restored memory, I think somewhere inside both of them hoped to recapture what was lost. If the two of them had been attracted to each other before, it isn't really hard to see them developing the same, given enough time.

But time wasn't what they had, Kokoro was already pregnant, and it kinda accelerated things, as in, they have to decide what to do.

In the end, these two demonstrated that love isn't just about being attracted to each other, but also being committed to make the relationship work. If Ai is the 'glue' that initially binds them again, so be it. I have no doubt that they fell in love again,  People had more flimsy reasons to stay together...like money. lol >_<

I've always liked that scene, "I keep telling you to call me 'mama'." Because only he and their children have that right to call her that, it's like an exclusive thing. It also shows how much comfortable she's become once more with him. :D