

In the last episode, when Kaede got her memories back, Sakuta went out
screaming and crying, and his wound started bleeding again. What was the
reason of that bleeding?


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Why did Sakuta's wound start bleeding again?


I haven't read the light novel, so I can only offer speculation based on the
anime. From what I can see, Sakuta's chest wounds seem to appear whenever he's
faced with a really shitty situation that he can do nothing about.

It was mentioned in the anime that his wounds first showed up when Kaede was
getting bullied and had bruises suddenly appear on her body. And the instance
that you quote is similar, Kaede reverts to her original self, probably
permanently, and there is nothing Sakuta can do about it. He thinks it's all
his fault and hates himself for letting it happen.

So my best guess is that the wounds are his version of Puberty Syndrome, and
are representative of his self-loathing.


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While the speculative [answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/50407/31815)
by [@najayaz](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/35449/najayaz) is
excellent, the movie _Seishun Buta Yarō wa Yumemiru Shōjo no Yume o Minai_
(Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl) provides a different explanation.
Not surprisingly, it involves Sakuta's first crush Shoko Makinohara —
specifically, it ties in with why there are apparently two of them, and why
there's apparently a connection between Sakuta's wound opening and the
appearance of the older version of Shoko.

> The younger Shoko Makinohara will receive a heart transplant in the near
> future, and that heart will actually belong to Sakuta. Due to Shoko's
> puberty syndrome, an older version of her exists due to some time-travel /
> relativity shenanigans. Sakuta's chest wound exists — and opens up whenever
> the older Shoko is nearby — because of the paradox of two of his hearts
> existing in close proximity.

How this situation is resolved forms the plot of the movie.


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