^ Yukio a villan to the bitter end it's too predictable therefore unlikely, imo. His dying or not or even his reconciling or not with Rin it's not (always imo).
I don't want Yukio to die. That'd be like letting the current him win, since he doesn't fear death. He actively welcomes it. If he dies, it'll mean that he has succeeded in running away from his life and problems for good. No. I want Yukio to be dragged through the dirt, beaten and bloody. I want him to have to go through the pain and shame of living with what he's done. I want him to suffer and learn how self-destruction has hurt people around him. I want him to learn the fear that Rin has to live with every day -- the cost of going out of control. I want Yukio to be proven wrong.
I said he doesn't feel love, not that it isn't in him. It's buried deep, along with the tears and grief he's separated from himself for so long that he can't even feel anymore.
Yukio has never cried in the story so far despite everything. Katou's been saving that for something big.
And let me hug you too, earthy.
So many ideas that can be fanfiction.... maybe I should try to write it. I just don’t have confidence in writing
I understand completely (and I got a problem with confidence in writing a fanfic (in -English- in particular) too) but if you're good at it (and I guess so from your comments (sorry, I don't know where are you from)) I totally encourage you to.
Back to the chapter, let's change topic a lil. Back in chapter 96 we had this angry/mad/raging Rin trying to slice Yukio up (who worried me big time) and I still thank Kato-Kami-sama for that bless in chapter 97 which was having Rin conscious enough after his berserk attempt to still be able to understand/hold a lil conversation with Yukio (and Satan!) for a while before shet went bad. I focused so much on the negative vibes I got from this chapter, I put the positive ones aside. But now that I'm kinda over the negative ones, I'd like to comment on the positive ones again.
The very first panel of chapter 97 gives us a perfect view of Rin's face. And I'm glad about it. We can literally get the feeling that Rin's TOTALLY out of it. Maybe this was the real problem I had with chapter 96. Rin's expressions in the last 5 pages didn't struck me as "completely blinded" so I got this STRONG feeling Rin was very serious about his "trying to kill Yukio" attempt. But that first page made me feel like I was wrong.
Well, okay. The sword breaks and Rin is sent backwards to the floor. And, he finally regains consciousness. At first reading, I was kinda mad at him for not commenting what he just did/risked to do and worried about his sword first. But, after reading the chapter again, I think this sequence is acceptable (ummmmm).
Let's say Rin didn't have time to actually process what he just did and/or comment it (I was expecting something like "Did I just charge Yukio?"/"What did I just do?"/"Was I really trying to kill him?"/"Is Yukio okay?" etc etc) and the first thing he noticed when he lifted his gaze was the half sword at Yukio's feet. Rin even heard a voice while charging Yukio but said nothing about it eith- oooookay, I don't want to make a fuss over this, so stop.
The BIG MOMENT I've (and a lot of us) been waiting for ages: Rin finally hears Satan's voice. Oh, my. Rin's reaction is the most obvious one ("Is Yukio possessed?"). I can't remember how many times I tried to imagine how this scene would happen (if it ever did (Kato-sama, you were making me -seriously- worry this moment could've never come)) and it was a dream come true to finally see it. Even if I expected a more "shocked" reaction from Rin. But the scene is good the same.
And, it turns even better (imo). 'Cause... seriously, Rin trying to talk to Yukio through the pain it's all I could wish for to raise my hopes Rin, at least so it seems or I like to believe, already got over his rage status toward Yukio. Be it 'cause discovering about Satan being somehow connected to Yukio made him believe there's prolly more behind Yukio's behaviour after all or any other reason, I don't particularly care.
I kinda don't like the feeling I get from Rin being unable to add anything else 'cause of the growing pain. It kinda leaves the situation a lil "ambiguous" imo. I mean, Rin does try to call Yukio a couple times (it's all he can manage to say) but, even if I have the feeling he's not mad at him anymore, I think there's too lil to really tell if he's ACTUALLY not.
I mean, it looks obvious, maybe. But I still don't feel 100% sure about it. If I want to keep thinking positive, well, I think I should focus over the fact Rin looks like he's screaming at Yukio to not go. But I also get the feeling he may be calling him as in: "We're not done talking yet!" and Rin's still angry and... okay, I think I'm exaggerating. *stop stop*
I also have the tiny feeling this lil panel here could be the key to interpret Rin's feelings toward Yukio's declaration before he leaves and his leaving in general. But I got more than one interpretation to it:

Moral: what do you think about Rin's possible "mood" toward Yukio once he'll be feeling better after what happened in this chapter?