On the chapter page, Yotsuba stands on a brick walk, flowers in one hand and a gun in the other. She's wearing a suit and hat, sort of the stereotypical '20s gangster look.
Yotsuba calls out to a young woman, warning her to look out. The woman turns her head, and a man shoots her. Yotsuba screams... then we see she's watching TV with Koiwai and Jumbo. Yotsuba points at the TV incredulously, but Koiwai tells her to sit down and watch. She does. He drinks some Asahi
. "I know what you did," a character says. "Please wait!" pleads the other. "I was only—" "Save your excuses for hell!" the first one interrupts. Yotsuba stands up and runs off.
She returns, and points a squirt gun at her father. Feigning fear, he says not to shoot. "Save your excuses for hell," she tells him, and shoots him in the face. He yells, and falls down, "dead". "KOIWAAAIIIIIIIII!!" Jumbo yells, and turns to Yotsuba. "How dare you!" he roars. "You oughta treasure your life," Yotsuba replies, and shoots him, too. Jumbo yells, and falls down... on Koiwai.
Yotsuba spins, and kneels beside them. "Daddy!! Jumbo!! NOOOO!!" she says. "Who did this to youuuu!!?" Jumbo asks if she's someone else now. Yotsuba swears revenge. She sticks her gun into the front of her shorts and says she'll be back. Not Quite Dead Jumbo tells her to promise to come back alive. She promises that, even if she dies, she'll come back alive.
A doorbell is rung. Who comes to answer but Mrs. Ayase. Yotsuba points her gun and demands to be let in, and is let in. She goes inside, and, being done with Mrs. Ayase, shoots her. Ayase plays along, saying she's been murdered. Yotsuba asks where Ena is, but Mrs. Ayase asks if she (Mrs. Ayase) isn't supposed to be dead. Yotsuba says she's half alive. Mrs. Ayase says that Ena is in her room, and is shot in the face again. "Now you're full dead," Yotsuba informs her.
Up in Ena's room, Ena is playing with her teddy. Awwww. She talks about picking a different color, such as red. Yotsuba kicks her door open, gets on her hands and knees, and does a somersault. She gets up and points her gun. "Don't move!" she tells Ena, adding, in English, "Non-stop!" "I know what you did, Ena," she continues. "You deserve to die." She shoots Ena a few times. Ena asks what she's doing, but Yotsuba asks is she's still alive, and shoots her again. "I DIIIIED!!" Ena says, in a different font. Yotsuba stand over her, and headshots the teddy bear. "I don't kill women and children," she claims, even though, as Ena claims, clutching her teddy, she just "did".
"Next comes Fuuka." She's asleep, the Q-teen summer fashion guide open beside her. (She's wearing a "16 years old" shirt. Remember that when this blog gets to Volume 6, Chapter 35, because it involves a very similar shirt.) Yotsuba stands over her, points the gun at her nose, and shoots, giving Fuuka a rather rude awakening! Yotsuba laughs and giggles, because water came out her nose. Fuuka hits her on the head with a pillow, "WHY YOU LITTLE..." she says in an angry font. Yotsuba starts firing like mad until she sees that Fuuka is really angry, and "excape"s as the pillow is hurled after her. Close call.
Now "the only one left... is Asagi." She's lying on the couch, talking on a mobile phone. Yotsuba puts the gun to the back of her head. "Huh?" she says, turning her head. "Keep it zipped," Yotsuba warns. The person on the other end of the line asks what's wrong, to which Asagi replies that she has a gun to her head. "Keep it zipped!" Yotsuba reiterates. It's the other person's turn to say "Huh?" Asagi relates that she's being told not to talk. Despite Yotsuba's "DO AS I SAY!!", the two continue their conversation, so Yotsuba says, "WHY, YOOOU!!" and pulls the trigger.
Nothing.
She tries a couple more times. No water comes out. "How unprofessional," Asagi remarks. "Always check your ammo supply."
Yotsuba goes into the kitchen to get Mrs. Ayase to reload it. She does, and gives it back. Yotsuba goes back into the living room as Asagi finishes up her call. She raises her gun... and Asagi knocks it out of her hand and picks it up. Yotsuba is stunned at this turn of events.
"Bye-bye, little assassin," Asagi says, and shoots her in the forehead. Yotsuba screams and flops on her back. Asagi squirts her a few times, and empties it onto her belly for good measure. Now Yotsuba's "dead"... for a few seconds, until Mrs. Ayase comes in, offering slicéd watermelon. Of course, Yotsuba can't stay dead for that!
Later that evening, Yotsuba returns home. Jumbo asks how her vengeance went. "I died!" Yotsuba reports, with a big smile. Jumbo gives her the lesson that vengeance never solves anything.
On the chapter divider, Yotsuba is trying to shake her daddy. He seems not to have recovered from being fallen on by Jumbo yet...
Next time: Chapter 10!
