Chapter 7: Penultimate Letters 2

God doesn't think This Shit is a noble title...

**Penultimate Letters 2** is the seventh chapter of YES and of Joey's Special Experience.

## Summary

The chapter starts off with a flashback of God and Dariusz (as indicated by the cut corners of the manga panels). The exact timing of it is unknown, though it is probably after Dariusz’s revival. God visits him to ask for drugs, but despite now living with Joshar, he is still bankrupt and Dariusz refuses to give God anything. He tells God that drugs aren’t medicine and to buy an elixir stay alive. Dariusz once again states he is going to Hell before falling asleep. God, reflecting upon this, feels he does not deserve to live.

Sometime after this, God disguises himself and meets a man downtown, having the money to buy something from him. The man remarks that God reminds him of someone from his home country of the United States who happened to be “only” 183 years old. God received a drug from the man that is “an invention of the future” that is “completely effective.”

Cut to the present. As Joost thinks about how bad the letters between Dariusz and Joshar are, God prepares to kill his “father” Joshar. Joost questions the drugs God is preparing, wondering if it is a thing he does often for some nice father-son bonding. But Joost is not so naïve this time. They try stopping God from giving the drug to Joshar, causing God to question their friendship. God gives an anti-drug speech to Joost as she begins to talk like the lawyer she is (as revealed in Chapter 6). Despite claiming his innocence, Joost says that God is Joshar’s husband and that they need to get divorced. The adopted siblings fight as Joost claims Joshar or Dariusz killed God.

On the floor bleeding, God once again wishes to die, while talking about Eastern medicine - perhaps the drug he bought in the flashback? Joost says he won’t date God because he is only 7. Joost also does want to try the drug and go to jail. God swears to himself that he will die in the next three days. Joost is just thinking about the next food competition - pasta is on the menu this time.

## Appearances

### Main characters:

* Joost
* God

### Secondary characters:

* Dariusz (flashback)
* Van Chan (debut) (flashback)

### Minor characters:

* Kira (mentioned only)
* Joshar (mentioned only)
* American with a moth (mentioned only)

## Lore notes

* Despite living with a rich family, God is bankrupt. However, considering he is able to buy a drug later, he may have just been lying to Dariusz to get the drugs for free.
* Dariusz suggesting God to drink may suggest that alcohol is much cheaper than drugs - maybe even free.
* God crossdresses using his “woman dress.”
* God may have been dying from an illness, needing medicine to survive (actual medicine, not his beloved drugs he tried on others). Alternatively, he is looking for a way to become immortal and never die. The drug he eventually buys may have been what allowed that man in the US to live to be 183 years old (with a possibly longer lifespan, as he is “only” 183). Dariusz may want God to be immortal to continue reviving him and/or share some of the elixir.
* Dariusz confidently proclaiming he is going to Hell implies he did in fact end up there when he died initially.
* The US is still considered another country during the flashback. Future chapters, especially Chapter 18, imply that this is no longer the case after the timeskip (1888).
* Joost is supposedly a virgin. This may just be God lying though. What would he know?
* Onlookers question what happened to the world. This may be referring to Joost’s stand - or just that these are the next generation of people.
* God has a business and considers getting into crypto.
* God has suicidal thoughts, despite possibly being immortal from that drug he bought (though he may not have taken it). That drug was peer pressure from Dariusz, he probably didn’t want it.

## Best Panel Vote

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