Chapter 10: Shady Business
Cookie negotiates with Team Executor to let her Combagals win the Masato Championship for their debut match.
While Muko is waiting for the meeting to take place at Monyan, Cookie and Nyarai are already talking to Team Executor about the two teams' first match. Knowing that they must win at any cost, Cookie resorts to desperate measures to convince Team Executor to let her Combagals achieve victory.
- Added Alliterative Appeal: The headline of the Spotter article is "Cafe Carrots Chaos".
- Call-Back: The Spotter article that Harry and Mellow mentioned about the incident at Cafe Carrots in Chapter 7 appears. It paints Muko as a perverted amateur who destroyed the place with her antics.
- Cheshire Cat Grin: Nyarai gives Cookie a huge grin after she reads the Spotter article. It evolves into a Slasher Smile with the panels.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Adelgund occasionally pays more attention to a stripper than to the meeting. She only stops ignoring the meeting during serious moments.
- Gem-Encrusted: Nyarai has a phone that is covered with diamonds. Cookie finds it tacky.
- Imagine Spot: Cookie has pages of these detailing her current financial troubles and her hopes of having Muko and Nyarai help her out of them.
- Jobber Cookie describes the term "jobber", explaining that her Combagals (Muko and Nyarai) can't lose their first match or they'll be forced into fights where their objective will be to lose.
- Loan Shark: Cookie had to resort to asking a loan from them to bribe Dinedon. There's even a Visual Pun of them represented as sharks about to eat Cookie.
- Noodle Incident: Dinedon mentions an incident about Cookie's past called Trilamity Day. Nothing is elaborated on, but Team Executor, Cookie, and Nyarai get somber when the incident gets mentioned.
- Oh, Crap!: Cookie has this reaction upon seeing the Spotter article, especially showing pictures of Muko knocked out.
- Smack on the Back: Adelgund smacks Nyarai's back as a friendly gesture. However, her size makes the gesture painful for Nyarai.
- Smug Smiler: This is Nyarai's default attitude during the early meeting.
- Storming the Castle: One Imagine Spot Cookie has involved Muko and Nyarai dressed as knights breaking through a castle.
- Tears of Joy: Nyarai believes that Cookie is shedding them when Dinedon agrees to have the match after Cookie bribes him. Subverted because Cookie is crying because she didn't like spending that much money after getting in more debt with loan sharks.
