(The picture is of Fuuka in jeans and a light-colored shirt with a heart shape between... you know. On the heart is the katakana for "ra-bu-pa-wa".)
The beginning of the chapter sees a Yotsuba with a stick and a net, trying to catch something in the gutter. A pair of legs come up behind her. Their owner asks what she's trying to catch. The legs' owner is Miura, wearing jeans, a Dodgers shirt, and a cap. She greets Yotsuba, who identifies her, and says she saw a real big one. Miura wonders if it was a crayfish she saw, or what. No, her quarry is a frog. (For this panel, by the way, Miura's shirt says "Dogers".) This startles Miura, who tells her she shouldn't go catching things like that. (Yeah, she should catch a crayfish, and name it Seymour.) Yotsuba, however, is distracted by a dragonfly, and chases it.
But then, she sees something, and tries to hide behind Miura, who is confused by Yotsuba's behavior. Yotsuba claims that "he's looking at me." Miura looks over... and sees a bird-scarer. You know, one of those things that looks like a bullseye. Kind of. (It could well be the exact same one that scared her in chapter 5, but this is not provable.) Miura confirms that it is indeed the bird scarer that she's afraid of, and seemingly has an idea.
At some point, Yotsuba goes back to what she was doing. Miura says she's going home, but that they can go to Ena's afterward. Miura again instructs her not to catch any frogs, and leaves. Yotsuba doesn't take her advice. She spots it, and crawls on the road...
Later, at the Ayase home, Yotsuba lets loose an enthusiastic "GOOOOD AAAFTER... ...NOOOON!!" The one to greet her is Fuuka, wearing a t-shirt with the kanji "fuu" (wind) on it. Yotsuba asks if Ena is there; she's upstairs. We see that Yotsuba is carrying a bag, and Fuuka is curious about the contents.
Yotsuba offers to let Fuuka see, but it's moving around, and Fuuka declines... though she still doesn't know what it is. Yotsuba goes upstairs.
In Ena's room, Ena asks what she brought. Yotsuba reaches in, and extracts... a large frog.
Now, if you haven't read anything about Ena, you might be tempted to think she's going to be afraid or disgusted, right?
Guess again.
She thinks it's really cute.
Her reaction makes Fuuka think maybe it was a kitten, so she pokes her head in to see... and promptly has the expected reaction. Miura hears it and doesn't know what happened. She ignores it, and opens her bag.
Inside, Koiwai is reading, when he hears the bell. He opens the door to find... a kid in sneakers, jeans, a Dodgers shirt... and something painted up similar to a bird-scarer. (There's no lighter ring around the inner black ring, however, as there was on the one Yotsuba saw.) The kid asks if Yotsuba is there, and Koiwai confusedly tells her that Yotsuba is at the Ayases'. The kid says she'll look for her there, and apologizes for troubling him.
(Remember, even if you're in a disguise intended to terrify someone, be polite to the people you interact with along the way!) She leaves, a still-confused Koiwai wondering who it was.
In Ena's room, the frog is in an empty aquarium. Ena figures they'll put it in the field later. Yotsuba wants to make it hop around first.
There's a knock at the door, which Ena responds to. A creepy voice (not, unfortunately, typed in the Creepy font) asks if Yotsuba is in there. Yotsuba opens the door.
Guess whoooo...
Yotsuba starts screaming. Ena is confused. Miura comes in, and says "Yoootsuuubaaaa!!" Yotsuba runs around, running into things. "I have come for youuuu," says Miura, approaching her. Yotsuba, on her hands and knees, starts growling. She gets into a fighting stance, and kicks Miura in the knee! It hurts Miura a bit, and she says, "You're going to get it nowwwwwww!" This makes Yotsuba cry. Ena tells Miura to stop it, but she claims not to be Miura, but "Hanako the eyeball", who came from the field over there.
Ena remembers something important about Miura. She brings out the large frog.
Now it's Miura's turn to scream as Ena holds it up to her. Miura is now on the floor, with Ena placing the frog on the floor in her direction. She makes the frog hop toward Miura, who now has her arms around Yotsuba... but because Miura is still disguised as Hanako the eyeball, Yotsuba is still scared by her, so both are screaming. Yotsuba selects the closest object to hit "Hanako" over the head with... and it happens to be Julietta the teddy bear. Ena tells Yotsuba to stop, because she's hurting Julietta... but it's too late; Julietta's arm rips, making Ena scream, as well.
And the frog is still coming, and the girls are still screaming...
Meanwhile in Okinawa...
The sky...
...palm trees in silhouette...
...the sea...
...the beach...
Asagi and Torako, both in bikinis, relax on lounge chairs partly in the shade of an umbrella. Asagi makes an observation...
"It's so quiet."
The end-of-the-chapter sketch is that of a teary Ena sewing Julietta's arm back on. Awwww.
Next time: Chapter 14!
