Funny / SPY×FAMILY

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"Hit like a little girl?" Yeah, you wish you could.

SPY×FAMILY is one of the most gutbustingly charming manga series in a good long while. Pretty much every chapter is guaranteed to have something that'll put a smile on your face!

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Volume 1

Mission 1:

• Twilight/Loid's first reaction to finding out his assignment? Spitting out his coffee without changing his expression. Especially considering that only a few moments ago he'd declared himself a Celibate Hero, before he got an assignment that requires him to act the exact opposite.
  • He shows more emotion regarding the short deadline than the absurdity of the assignment he's just been given. Specifically, he loses his composure enough to exclaim out loud "I have to produce a child in seven days?!" as if he was directly arguing with whoever sent him the mission. Cut to wide shot of the other train passengers staring at him.
• Loid's internal monologue implying that if his Master of Disguise status stretched far enough for him to impersonate a little kid, he'd do so.
• Anya's Establishing Character Moment as a Cheerful Child agent of chaos who is as adorable as she is exasperating. Such as unknowingly taunting a crime lord Loid recently scammed over encrypted radio, panicking whenever he wonders if she's more trouble than she's worth, and repeatedly trying to play hide and seek with him when she refuses to stay in the apartment.
• This exchange (overlaps with Heartwarming):
  Loid: So please make sure that you address me as "Father".
  Anya: Papa!
  Loid: Close enough.
  • Loid makes it clear to Anya that they need to act as if they've always been family. When meeting a new neighbor, Anya cheerfully announces, "I've always been papa's daughter!"
    Loid: (Thinking) Didn't need to say that.
• The first thing Anya does when first arriving at Loid's apartment? She turns on the TV and a cartoon called Spy Wars starts playing, much to her delight. Bonus points for its main character Bondman looking a lot like Loid.
  Loid: Of all things...
• When Anya reads Loid's mind and hears that he's having second thoughts about adopting her, what is her response?
  Anya: (crying) Please don't get rid of me! Please! I'm a good bargain!
  • Loid's attempt to stop Anya crying and causing unwanted attention? He tells her that he'll buy her some peanuts. It works immediately.
• One moment from the first episode stands out in particular during Loid and Anya's shopping trip.
  Anya: Papa, I want a pistol with a silencer!
  Loid: (deadpan) Sure, if there's one on sale.
• Loid, while disguised as one of the henchmen that kidnapped Anya, tells her that the criminal and his thugs are professional tag players.
  Anya: (thinking, in awe) Papa's a liar.
• After Loid manages to get Edgar off his back presumably for good, he finds Anya still outside, watching some ants. He comes up with the excuse that he tried to go shopping at the abandoned supermarket Edgar was hiding out in.
  Anya: (thinking again) Papa's a liar.
• During the Eden entrance exam:
  • Anya tries to read the minds of everyone else to get the answers, only to realize they're as clueless and panicked as she is, with one even using "eeny-meenie-miney-mo" to guess the answers.
  • Anya is forced to think back to the actual studying she did with her father, and she passes on her own merits. Loid is so proud of her and relieved that he relaxes (something he apparently normally never does) and the accumulated stress over the entrance exam causes him to faint.
• The ending scenes involve a series of funny quips from Anya reacting to events: Loid faints from stress? "Papa died." A mailman asks Anya to give a letter to her mother or father? "My mama doesn't exist." The letter demands that both parents attend the Eden College interview? "But mama doesn't exist."

Mission 2:

• Franky attempts to pass as a woman for the interview. Both Loid and Anya after some Visible Silence agree it's not going to work.
  Anya: Anya cannot accept this mama.
• After Franky is rejected from the mission, Anya offers Franky a peanut as consolation.
• Franky points out how specific Loid's requirements for his wife are: refined appearance, won't care about marrying a single father with daughter, and willing to get married in 48 hours; "If such a goddess exists, I'd sure love to meet her!"
  Franky: Meanwhile, I have no standards whatsoever, and I can't even get a single date!
  Loid: That's pathetic.
  Franky: Don't call me pathetic!
• Loid brings Anya to a tailor to get her measurements, where she gets the wrong idea. In the anime:
  Anya: (Worried) I'm being sold to traffickers!
  Loid: (Deadpan) Not if you behave.
  • When she comes back from getting said measurements, in some translations, she happily declares, "I know how long I am!"
• Yor is worried about asking Loid to be her fake boyfriend when Anya shows up because this makes her think Loid has a wife, and thus said wife would try to kill her... although she then muses that she'd probably kill said wife first, before quickly trying to dismiss the notion (as it could get her outed as an assassin). Later, her reason for reconsidering asking Loid to play her boyfriend is she's still worried about the chance of bloodshed from a jealous wife.
• Anya's reaction to realizing she could have a spy and assassin as her parents.
  Anya: I'm... so excited!
  Narrator: The little girl was starving for entertainment.
• Anya, realizing that the above misunderstanding is sabotaging her chances of having a spy father and assassin mother, starts bemoaning her lack of a mother and how sad this makes her out of nowhere, because of course that's the best idea she can come up with to "subtly" broadcast to Yor that her dad is in fact single. In the anime, her tone of voice is so fake it's hysterical.
• Franky is not happy that Loid dragged him along to retrieve some stolen goods... until Loid tells him that nobody would notice if one or two pieces go "missing." Cue Franky being all too eager to help. The following gunfight has Franky complain about the two of them facing off against a small army, and Loid counts 38 angry smugglers now after them. After fleeing, both begin to help themselves to the stolen goods.
• Loid's very abrupt, and very late, entrance to the party: slamming open the door, blood running down his face from a potential concussion, and accidentally announcing himself as Yor's husband (she had only asked for him to play her boyfriend). His excuse for the blood is that one of his patients had a psychotic relapse.
• Yor was able to save a plate of gratin by extending her leg out, and with a couple kicking motions to steady it, catch it on the side of her heel without changing expression (unintentionally splashing Camilla's nose with some burning hot gratin for her "trouble"). Loid just points out that while he appreciates her trying to save the food, doing so with her feet could be seen as shameless, to which she notes that she didn't realize. Both then proceed to eat some of the gratin and comment on how delicious it is as if nothing happened.
  • Meanwhile, when Loid comments that using her feet might be considered shameless, one of the other guests mentally exclaims over the fact that that's his only reaction.
• Camilla attempts Slut-Shaming on Yor by referencing all the men she's met at the hotel. But this goes completely over Yor's head because she can only think of what she actually did with those men - namely, assassinating them. She then tells Loid "please don't get the wrong idea", as if the notion she had been killing men at the hotel would be the first one to enter Loid's head instead of the more obvious one.
• At the end of the party, Loid takes Yor home in the same minivan he just used for the heist earlier. In a dual case of Failed a Spot Check, Yor completely fails to notice (and/or care) that the passenger's side is all smashed in... and Loid also entirely misses that a normal person would at least point this out, or more likely hesitate to get into such a vehicle in the first place.
• Loid claims that the smuggling ring trying to kill them are his psychiatric patients, and that physically knocking them out is a new form of therapy. Yor just muses that being a doctor must be tough.
  Loid: (thinking) She actually believed it!?
  • After beating up the smugglers she asks if it's okay to beat his patients.
    Loid: Yeah, it's okay. I'm using a cutting edge technique known as the Concussive Recovery Method.
    Text pops up: This is fiction.
• Despite Loid's exasperation over Yor, he immediately buys her ridiculous excuse of having "taken a few self-defense lessons" when she kicks a man fifteen feet and dents a wall. He's even impressed by it enough that they share a moment of brevity laughing about how far Yor sent the man flying.
  Yor: *gasp* Sorry, I'm not a doctor, so I shouldn't try to treat your patients!
• Yor casually suggests to Loid they should just get married, causing Loid to immediately fall on his face. Keep in mind she says this while they are being chased by a smugglers' ring (though Yor admits that it is a poor time to ask).
• Loid dropped the diamond ring he stole to propose with somewhere along the way. So he accepts Yor's proposal by slipping the pin of a grenade over her finger instead. He says his vows while the grenade blows up the smugglers chasing them. Yor also never brings up that he essentially obliterated his "patients". It's equally heartwarming, hilarious, and awesome.

Mission 3:

• In the anime, Anya claims she helped Loid with the cleaning and baking. Both times, Loid points out she just got in the way, and she goes wide-eyed in shock.
• Loid and Yor get all of her boxes to her room, and Loid walks away to give her time to unpack. He's only five steps away before she's done (with Anya having watched the speedy offscreen unpacking in awe).
• Yor is worried about Anya holding a particular box because it contains her weapons and poison strong enough to kill an elephant. Anya is completely paralyzed with fear when she reads her mind on that.
• In the anime, Loid and Yor have a chat over Loid's cookie-baking skills. While they do so, Anya periodically pops in from offscreen to grab a crescent-shaped cookie before popping back out.
• The anime adds a few lines to the mock interview where Loid asks Yor how she intends to pass, and she (mis)understands it as talking about passing as in death:
  Loid: Why did you choose Eden College, and how do you plan to pass this exam?
  Yor: (anxious) How do people usually pass? Um, pass, passing... Perhaps because of cardiac arrest, or excessive bleeding? Or compound fractures throughout the body? Oh! Maybe their skull was caved in.
  (Anya goes pale in horror)
  Loid: Kill me now.
  • Followed by Loid's Thousand-Yard Stare afterwards:^note The manga has it come up later when they're having dinner at the restaurant instead.
    I've been a spy for over a decade. I've completed countless missions, and this is the first time I've felt it was hopeless.
  • After hearing Yor's parenting style answer, in the dub, Loid proceeds to wonder how her brother didn't become a total psychopath. Later considering his actual job at the SSS and his eagerness for Cold-Blooded Torture, the Briars aren't exactly the clean model citizens they present themselves as.
• When walking and holding Anya's hand, Yor cheerfully reminisces about doing the same with her brother when he was little. Then she recalls the time she accidentally broke a few of his ribs when hugging him. Anya, hearing these thoughts, panics and runs away from her, leaving poor Yor looking crushed.
• When the family goes out to experience high society:
  • At the opera, Loid is enjoying himself whereas Anya fell asleep and Yor seems to be working as hard as she can to understand it (with steam coming from her head).
  • At the art gallery, Loid is enjoying himself whereas Anya points out the artwork has naked ladies and Yor admires the artwork of a man in a guillotine a bit too fondly.
    Anya: Papa! I can see her boobies!
  • While having dinner Loid is enjoying himself whereas Anya is only eating the nuts from her dinner and Yor is caressing her dinner knife, blushing and breathing heavily.
    Loid: (thinking) In my ten-odd years as a spy, I've undertaken countless missions...but this is the first time I've ever felt truly hopeless.
    Anya: Don't worry about it, Papa.
    Loid: WHAT...?
• From the anime: When Anya has fun drawing at the children's area during their day out, she draws her dad as a spy and her mom as an assassin, only to panic when Loid and Yor come over to see her work, thinking she's just outed herself as a telepath. Except it's just a simplistic, barely-colored-in scribble, and they simply assume it's the characters from the TV show she loves. ^note Though, Freeze-Frame Bonus and eagle eyed viewers may at least see a passing resemblance to Yor in the drawing that they assume is of a princess.
• Loid mentally states "A spy should never stand out" just after he very publicly took down a purse thief by leaping off an overhead walkway. He just takes back the wallet and nervously points out loud that someone should call the police to have the man taken in before he hurries off.
• When Loid is thinking about how nice it is to be thanked for helping once in a while, Anya thinks that he is being a Tsundere.
• After Loid and Yor share a heartfelt moment, Anya kills the mood by asking if they're about to kiss (manga) / stating that they're flirting (anime), causing them both to blush and snap that they aren't.
  Loid & Yor: (shouting) No we are not!

Mission 4:

• Anya's use of "verbal etiquette" consists of adding "please" to her sentences in various awkward-sounding ways.
• Henry repeatedly mistaking the Forger family's actions as elegance.
  • The Forgers salute the statue of the founder, where in reality Loid knows to do this because they are being watched, Yor just follows what Loid is doing, and Anya thinks he is a bald teapot.
  • After Loid saves a kid stuck in a grate (deliberately so as a Secret Test of Character), Henry says to dismiss them since they got mud on themselves, only to be shocked to find out they brought another outfit with them.
    Henry: WHO WOULD THINK OF THAT?!
  • When Henry is too busy being impressed with Loid, another faculty member reminds him they are testing the daughter.
  • When a stampede of animals charges through the area, Henry is baffled by this and thinks this is another Secret Test of Character, only for his staff to state no one ordered that. This leaves him shocked as the school could get in serious trouble if any of the families actually get hurt.
  • Just the fact that the highly sophisticated Eden Academy apparently has a farm, and with the way Henry phrases it, they may have used the stampede as a test in previous enrollments.
  • After the Forgers stop the stampede, Henry is so shocked by their elegance he rushes down to "admit my defeat".
  • Henry states the Forgers should go home to change before having their interview, only for the Forgers to reveal they brought a third outfit with them. Henry states their action is beyond elegance and finds these people terrifying.
• Yor stops a rampaging cow by hitting pressure points on her body. She states she learned about them in yoga class. The look on Anya's face makes it clear that even she, a naïve child, knows just how dumb of an excuse that is.
  • Speaking of looks on faces, the one on Yor's the instant she realizes that Loid and Anya saw what she did is absolutely priceless!
  • Also, the animals slowly stepping away from Yor after seeing her knock out the cow in seconds.

Mission 5:

• The mental picture as Loid describes how he and Yor met. Basically, it's how they really met in the tailor shop, followed by a scene of them and Anya running and laughing like a picturesque family.
• Henry asks Anya what she thinks it would take to reach the top of this school. She states how one needs to put all of their effort into each task as if your life was on the line. Loid recognizes this is actually a line from her Bondman show. However, Henry is genuinely impressed by her answer.
• When Walter asks what her father's job is, Anya nearly states he is a spy, before stating he is a "specialist in mental health". You can almost feel the tension in Loid when she nearly ruins his mission right then and there.
• After the family believe they failed the test, they try to cheer themselves up with a toast, only for their family picture frame to fall. They take it as a bad sign.
  • When we first see Loid after the Forgers return home, he has a Thousand-Yard Stare because he's sure he failed his mission.

Volume 2

Mission 6:

• In the anime, the bad omens do not stop - Yor's bracelet breaks, a black cat strolls over their path, and Anya steps in poop (which is pixellated), to the Forgers' escalating This Is Gonna Suck reactions.
• Early on in the anime, the chief of WISE reviews Twilight's file (taken from his profile in Volume 1), with one tidbit of information listed in it that wasn't blacked out being that he wears black underwear.
• Henry shows the family the waiting list and states the reason why Anya is at the top was because Loid saved their lives by killing the mosquito, claiming it was a deadly beast. Even Loid tells him that is ridiculous. The best part is you can't tell if Henry's doing this as a flimsy excuse to make up for the interview, or if he honestly, truly believes what he's saying.
• Yor's imagining killing an Eden student's parent to get an opening for Anya. She has to remind herself she cannot kill innocents, and even apologizes to the fictional person she killed. Even better? The name of Yor's fictional victim is named Zachry Feiss.
• Anya's "prayer dance" as she dances with her Mr. Chimera doll while chanting in a most adorable way.
• When the phone rings, Loid, expecting it is the school calling, rushes to the phone so fast it causes Anya to spin.
• Franky arrives to celebrate with the Forgers about Anya getting into the school... seconds after they found out themselves.
• Franky and Yor getting drunk, particularly the latter. In the anime she spends much of the episode showcasing a series of Funny Background Event gags as she chugs full glasses of wine, holds onto the wine bottle like it was a teddy bear or just happily waves at Loid during his efforts to rescue Anya, all while wearing a blissful smile. This also conveniently prevents her from really questioning things, sparing Loid and Franky any need to explain most of this stuff away.
• Yor spends about half of the episode carrying around the bottle of wine with her. No one mentions this as she appears from scene to scene, from the apartment, to the airplane, to the introduction before the "mission", to the ride to the final confrontation.
• Franky is able to guilt trip Loid into renting a castle for Anya, getting every available agent to furnish it and act as guests, all to play rescue like in her favorite show.
  • Keep in mind, the agents were gathered to the castle because WISE sent out the information as an SS+ mission for Operation Strix. There is literally a montage of agents running through the woods, parachuting from the skies, and taking speedboats from all over Ostania making it look like they're The Cavalry in a Grand Finale. All of this because this mission was labeled as "COMPLETE AT ALL COSTS".
  • You'd think that with all the agents urgently answering Loid's call for backup, his reputation would be dented when they realize it was so he could play games with his daughter, right? Nope, they're all just thrilled to see the legendary Twilight in person. One of them even debates asking for his autograph!
  • Also, the Background Music playing in this scene is essentially a botched version of the Bond Theme... on the Recorder!
• When assigning roles, Anya isn't able to think of anything for her mom (since her dad is the hero, and Franky is the villain), so she simply says "Mama... can do whatever", to Yor's vocal shock.
• Franky hamming it up to high heaven as "Count Scruff Head" in the anime, Chewing the Scenery left and right, and ending his sentences with "scruffy, scruffy, scruffy, scruff!" in the subbed version.
  • And right next to him, Anya's adorable attempts at shouting "Oh save me, Loidman!" lines, as if she's reading them straight out of the script of her Spy Wars show.
• In the Anime, part of the game involves challenging Loid to a quiz that Anya made up. The final question: "What does Anya want right now?" Loid thinks carefully, trying to remember everything he knows about her:
  Loid: Bondman's spy gear!
  Franky: What's the correct answer, Princess Anya?
  Anya: Right now...I'm thirsty, so I'd like some water, please.
  Loid: HOW THE HELL WOULD I KNOW THAT!?
• Yor, still very drunk, nearly kills Loid in hand-to-hand combat even though it's supposed to be pretend. Only for her heel to snap, whereupon she hits the ground and passes out. Loid is shocked... because she was supposed to be playing a witch, and witches don't fight hand-to-hand.
• Franky tries to put up a tough front, only for Loid to knock him out with one punch.
• Upon "rescuing" Anya, all the other agents break out into applause, and some are even moved to tears in the anime.
• WISE is shocked by the massive bill Loid sends them for everything. In the anime, the Chief's secretary is visibly struggling to contain her reactions before handing it off to him.
  WISE's Chief: ...Are these numbers real?
  Secretary: They are, sir.
  WISE's Chief: But—
  Secretary: They're correct.

Mission 7:

• After the seamstress states how the other students will probably look down on Anya for not being rich and that she's likely to be kidnapped for ransom as students of said school are usually from wealthy families, Anya states she now no longer wants to go to school. She then looks out for kidnappers.
  • The wording Anya uses in the anime to voice her fears later is notably funny and deadpan.
    Anya: I am in fear that I will be kidnapped.
• The Forgers go out to eat at a restaurant, where the chef gives Loid a message on his food. Loid states he wishes they would stop doing it this way because he finds it unpleasant.
• In the anime, when Loid gets the call that Anya's school uniform is done, Anya immediately goes over to him from her chair. But instead of just walking, she gets down onto the ground and starts rolling toward him in an adorable attempt to imitate being a cool spy.
• Handler calls out Loid for spending so much in the last chapter. His only response is to casually give her the latest bill for Anya's school supplies, and say that they're all "necessary expenses", to which she notes he's got guts to brush the matter off so casually right in front of her.
• After Handler states Loid needs to make Anya a model student, he is not enthusiastic about those chances.
  "Hello, anxiety, my old friend."
• Anya repeatedly shows off her new school uniform to Yor and asks if she is cute while Yor happily replies that she is time and again. The seamstress asks in exasperation if they could just go home already.
• Anya keeps showing off her uniform to everyone she meets, complete with a "Ta-da!" every time she does so.
• Yor goes grocery shopping, and she drops a line that would foreshadow her rather cavalier take on cooking.
  Yor: I'm not sure what any of these are, so I'll just buy all of them.
  • In the manga, she grabs some carrots thinking that they'll be great for work.
• The chapter ends with Yor training Anya how to fight (declaring to Loid that she is "preparing her for school"), leaving Loid to repeat he sees nothing but anxiety ahead of him.

Mission 8:

• Yor tells Anya that when someone is mean to her, she should just try to smile to de-escalate the situation. When Anya gets harassed by Damian Desmond, the son of Twilight's target, she accidentally gives the perhaps smuggest face in all of manga and anime, which only enrages Damian more.
  Anya: (still smugly smiling; to herself) Mama's a liar. Smiling didn't help a bit.
• Damian's response to Anya's smug face ends up being him just calling her 'ugly uggo' over and over, prompting Ewen to comment that he should work on his vocabulary.
• While her smug expression doesn't change, Anya's growing anger at Damian's insults is represented by a tiny flame appearing in her pupil.
• Then when she decides to decisively stop Damian's abuse, she punches him right in his little face (but not before turning to check if Henderson is watching). She claims she was stretching and he ran into her hand, but her deadpan Bad "Bad Acting" doesn't do her any favors, and she almost digs herself in deeper when she tries to ask if they have proof, only for Damian's friends to point out the angry red mark on his face is proof enough.
  • The Art Shift of Damian's contorted face mid-impact, looking like something out of One Piece. The icing on the hilarity cake is that instead of the usual shounen manga "rage face" that accompanies such "catharsis punches", Anya's expression remains sweet-and-innocent, drawn in her usual soft-and-adorable art-style even as her fist is drawn with enough speed and impact to resemble one of Kenshiro's steel-shattering punches from Fist of the North Star.
• Whenever Anya thinks back to Yor's lessons, she gasps and looks at the memory as if Yor is talking to her in the present.
• Then at the end, when all the families of the admitted children are taking a class photo, Loid has a Thousand-Yard Stare, Anya is on the verge of tears, and Yor is pulling double duty with her Face Palm.
  Photographer: Could the family on the far right try to smile a little more?

Extra Mission 1:

• Loid, realizing that his late nights are causing rumors with the neighbors that he is having an affair, suggests to Yor and Anya they go out to the aquarium that weekend for a family trip. However, he realizes he needs to finish up the missions he's currently assigned to by then. Cut to the next scene where it's the day of the trip and he looks like he's about to die of exhaustion.
• Anya backing up Loid's trip idea, but the way she says it makes it sound very suspicious.
  Anya: My papa always takes me fun places and sure gets along well with Mama! They're both nice, and I love how normal they are!
  Loid: (mentally) That sounded a tad forced, but I'll take it.
  • Then when they're about to head out:
    Anya: Wait for me, nice and normal Papa!
• Loid turning down a mission is so shocking to the agent it seems like she is unable to accept he turned it down and continues briefing him on it. It doesn't help that his mission also is taking place at the very aquarium he is taking Anya to. In the end, despite trying to decline multiple times, he ends up accepting the mission.
• After being forced to accept the mission, Loid thinks that at least his neighboring Gossipy Hens believe he's out spending time with his family, so he can complete the mission without needing to be around Yor and Anya constantly... only for those rumor-mongering neighbors to be visiting the aquarium at the same time by sheer coincidence, followed by Yor offering them to join their group out of her own perspective on maintaining good relations with their neighbors, meaning he very reluctantly has to both complete the mission and maintain their "happy family" facade, forcing him to run himself even more ragged.
• Loid had to go undercover as an employee to retrieve the film from inside a penguin, and he does such a good job that the actual employee (a newbie he left knocked out in a closet) ends up getting a promotion.
• Yor kicking the terrorist straight through the ceiling gets an audible "Wow!" from Anya; the funny bit comes when Loid, in disguise as an aquarium employee, walks by and has the exact same reaction.
  • The way Anya gets Yor's attention to dispose of the terrorist is both awesome and hilarious: she grabs a hold of the guy's jacket as he runs away and then screams "Mama! I'm being kidnapped!", when in actuality it's the other way around. Then only after Anya is safe in her arms does Yor worry about having kicked the guy too hard, hoping she didn't kill him.

Mission 9:

• Becky might act mature for her age, but she's still a six-year-old girl.
  Becky: (dragging Anya away) Don't even talk to them, you'll catch their stupid!
  Anya: But world peace!
• Loid's first thought on seeing the heir of the Blackbell military conglomerate (Becky) dragging Anya away is that she is under orders to disrupt any reconciliation with Damian. And then he remembers that she's six.
  Loid: No, calm down Twilight, that's stupid.
• The rather ludicrous and clearly desperate lengths Loid goes to throughout the chapter to remind Anya to apologize to Damian. One of them is an edited version of her textbook that is just a card clearly just taped onto the page and another is what is essentially a "Kick Me" sign on someone telling her to say sorry. At one point, he gives a message by reflecting sunlight from a rooftop and Anya assumes that it's a message from God.
  Anya: Is that you, God?!
• After Anya apologizes, Damian starts to clearly develop a crush on her from how cute she looks, though he's unable to accept this, literally punching the "doki doki" away. Or in the anime, him mentally trying to grasp his pounding heart to stop it, even as his hand is actually grasping his shirt fabric.
  • After being thoroughly charmed by Anya, the anime adds a scene of Damian going through his memories of Anya and retroactively viewing her◊ far cuter and with massive shoujo eyes. Oh, and Becky is out of focus. Even with her apology itself Damian's perspective adds Dramatic Wind to Anya's hair.
  • As he runs off, Damian is so embarrassed and frustrated that his entire body is turning red.
• Loid gets frustrated by Becky's persistent sabotage of Anya's apology efforts, so he uses the school intercom to move her out of the way. After the apology, we cut back to an angry Becky in an empty student hall.
  Becky: Who was it?! Who the heck called me out here?!

Mission 10:

• Anya's getting stressed out by her math homework, so she tries to do it faster by reading her parents' minds... except she gets overwhelmed by Loid's hyper-detailed focus on his mission and the sheer speed of his thoughts, then freaked out by Yor's weird train of thought, and decides Screw This, I'm Outta Here.
  • Loid thinks so many things so quickly that the text for it all can't even fit on the screen.
• Anya talking in her sleep reveals she is having some rather... interesting dreams.
  Anya: No, Mama. You can't kill Papa...

Mission 11:

• The teacher calls on Anya for the answer to a problem. Anya stands up and confidently declares it's three thirds, to which the teacher's response is "That... is incorrect in every possible way." Anya goes completely blank-faced and staring as the school bell tolls.
• For all Twilight's skill at lying, he really has trouble trying to pretend Anya's a good student:
  Handler: Can we expect an improvement in your daughter's academic performance? We would like you to aim for acquiring eight Stella Stars within the next four months.
  Twilight: (The teacup he's holding loudly clattering against its saucer as he visibly shakes in terror trying to drink it calmly.) F-four months.... heh... yes, that... should be no problem.
  Handler: You used to be a much better liar, Twilight.
  Twilight: (thinking) Eight Tonitrus Bolts in two months should be doable, though...
• We're introduced to the Ostanian State Security Service with scarred tough guys dragging a bureaucrat away for interrogation, with young Yuri looking notably out of place. When Yuri's seniors discuss how a baby-face like him managed to get into the Service, their boss had this to say:
  Boss: He's like some cute little puppy.
• Loid and Yor setting up the house to make it seem like they're a pair of Sickening Sweethearts, which includes sharing a cup that says 'LOVE' to hold their toothbrushes, multiple edited pictures of them as a couple, and last but not least, a shared bed with a big heart on the covers and pillows that say 'YES.' The end results leave them awkwardly staring at each other, the silence only interrupted by Anya:
  Anya: Papa and mama are flirting.
  Loid/Yor: (blushing) No we're not!
• Yuri getting worked up over Loid and Yor’s marriage. It gets to the point where not once but twice does he start chugging down wine- first from the glass, then straight from the bottle.
• After Anya figures out a fraction problem using the example of bullets in Bondman's gun, Loid realizes the Spy Wars series may be useful to help her learn. Cue him and Anya later reading some kind of Spy Wars manga together. Also heartwarming.
  • Anya, with a oddly serious/proud expression, states the "he has two eighths of his bullets left" revelation three times, including in response to Yor arriving home.

Volume 3

Missions 12-13:

• Yuri's first visit to the Forgers is pretty much one long string of these:
  • Yor somehow places the huge bouquet of flowers Yuri got her into a small, skinny vase.
  • Yor's explanation for why she didn't tell Yuri she'd been married for a year, something she assures Loid will be the "perfect" excuse: she forgot to tell him. Cue Yuri just looking so done, Yor smiling with confidence, and a stunned Loid dropping something in the kitchen.
  • Yuri asks why Yor didn't mention she had a husband when he called her in Mission 2. Her answer: she'd forgotten that she'd forgot to tell him. Cue still stunned Loid dropping something in the kitchen again.
    • The colorized version tops it off by having Loid turn grey each time he drops something.
    • For extra humor, Yuri used the exact same excuse when his coworker asked why he 'hid' such important evidence till the last minute.
  • Followed by Yuri looking down, then looking back up and going "Well, that explains it then," to Loid's astonishment. The narration explains "The man lost all reason when dealing with his sister."
  • Yor's description of how they met: "He made quite the impression; a total stranger staring at me!"
  • Yuri's frustration as he struggles to find any legitimate reasons to dislike Loid, instead internally listing the things that honestly make him an amazing catch: he's a great cook, a doctor, handsome, considerate, etc.
  • Yuri gets himself worked up over Yor and Loid's apparent casual First-Name Basis familiarity, chugging down a glass of wine because he can't handle this. The narration explains "The man lost all reason when etc etc."
    • The English dub narration of the above event in particular is especially snarky.
      That thing earlier about logic flying out the window? There it went.
    • On top of that, the English dub makes Yuri look even more needy and hilarious in regards to his sister:
      Yuri: What do the two of you like to call each other?
      Loid: I call her Yor?
      Yuri: Yor?! But that's our thing!
    • The entire reason he brought the wine was to make Loid drunk and get information out of him. Yuri ends up drinking most of it, but since Loid has trained himself to not get drunk while consuming alcohol, it wouldn't have worked even if Yuri hadn't touched the stuff.
  • Yuri's flashback of a happy young Yor coming home from her part-time job covered in blood, much to young Yuri's horror. Yor thought to herself that it was no big deal since it wasn't her blood. Yuri though explains he thought she was "working herself bloody".
  • Loid declares he loves Yor as much as Yuri, if not more, and would protect Yor from anything, from spears to meteors (anime) / knives to nukes (manga). Yuri (possibly due to his drunken state) takes him literally, wondering how Loid could be powerful enough to protect Yor from such before trying to say that anyone can claim exaggerations like that. Even the narration comments on how much of a liar he's being.
  • Yuri demands Loid and Yor prove they're a couple and kiss. Yor's reaction when Loid starts to move in? Chug down a bottle of wine, because there's no way she can do her first kiss sober.
    • Loid demonstrates again why his mind is so hard for Anya to read, pondering how best to proceed and psyching himself up to kiss Yor all in the span of 0.1 seconds.
    • Of course, both chapter and episode end exactly on Loid moving in for the kiss and Yor's flustered panic. She squeaks and twitches when Loid touches her back, and gives a drawn-out, exaggerated, embarrassed cry as Loid is shown moving in slow motion to kiss her.
    • With how the episode ends, many viewers reacted as if they were just Rickrolled.
  • Even when she's panicked, Yor's mind can still wander. Namely, she recalls hearing that one's first kiss tastes like lemons, then thinks to herself how the taste of the kiss will go great with the marinated fish Loid made.
  • Yor's complete 180 after chugging the wine, going from a stuttering, blushing maiden to a seductive Femme Fatale who throws a fork past Yuri's head (embedding it in the wall) when he tries to stop them. Even Loid is left momentarily stunned by her sudden personality shift.
  • Yuri flips out because it's getting too lewd for him, and he can't cope with seeing Yor kiss another man in his presence. Then Yor flips out because it's too embarrassing, and ends up accidentally giving Yuri a full-power slap in the face, sending him spinning into the air and crashing into the bookcase, leaving him bleeding. Anya wakes up, wondering if it's a nuke (manga) / the end of the world (anime) / both (anime dub), and then goes back to sleep.
  • Yuri declares Loid's won this round and that his sister's lips are his. An embarrassed Yor slaps Yuri into the table, and when he stands back up, he's now spurting blood from his head. Loid wonders if this is normal for them.
  • In the anime, upon leaving and declaring that he'll be back if Loid hurts his sister, Yuri runs smack dab into a wall because he's still stumbling from a cocktail of wine and concussion sustained from two consecutive slaps by Yor, while screaming like a jealous lunatic. Yor, ever the sweet and caring big sister to the end, calls out after him to not be too loud and wake up the neighbors.
  • After all that, Loid and Yor forgot they'd left out the embarrassing bed from Mission 11.
  • Yuri tries to go home, visibly staggering from concussion and still bleeding profusely, asking a couple of thuggish-looking men which way goes to the station. The men reply in shock that he needs to go to a hospital instead.

Mission 14:

• Anya is so disorientated when she wakes up that she mistakes a plant for her father.
  Anya: Papa, you're so green today.
• Anya completely forgot who Yuri was, despite him being the reason she tried to stay up late.
• When Anya reads Loid's mind and finds out her uncle is a member of the Secret Police, she is shocked at first, then wonders what that term means, concludes that it's something exciting and finally shouts at Loid for not waking her up to meet him.
  Anya: Why didn't you introduce him to me? Give me back my excitement!
• Yor's unique "cooking" makes its official debut, and we see this particular dish consists of mushrooms, fish heads and tails, and fish bones. It all seems to be burnt as well.
• In a bit of subtle comedy, Anya huffs and grumbles as she goes up the school bus's steps, said steps clearly having been made for someone with longer legs than her.
• Yuri goes to work and talks with his superior about meeting his sister's husband, with the latter noting the bandage on his face. After Yuri realizes he forgot to bug the apartment, then realizes bugging the apartment might mean hearing what Yor and Loid do in bed together, he repeatedly hits his head against his locker. The superior wonders if his injuries from before were self-inflicted.
  • Even better? In the previous chapter after Yuri leaves, Loid noted that Yuri didn't leave any bugs in the apartment, which makes the above also double as a Brick Joke.
• Yuri states he will make Loid pay if he causes his sister to cry. Cut to his sister crying, but it was caused by Anya stating she was a bad cook.
• When Yor is stopped by the Secret Police, she tries to use her new cover to disperse suspicion:
  Yor: (waving her hand in front of them) I-I'm already married!
  Franky: We're not hitting on you, ma'am.
• As if to poke fun at Franky's odd appearance, his SSS disguise is literally just his face art-shifted to look consistent with everyone else. He actually looks dignified and capable of being taken seriously, much to Loid's chagrin when Franky warns the spy about developing feelings for Yor.
• After realizing Yor really doesn't know Yuri is in the Secret Police, Loid and Franky need to find a way to end their deception of interrogating her over an alleged letter in code. Cue Franky declaring they read the note in the "wrong" code, and it's actually about her boss having hemorrhoids with Loid declaring he must have been so embarrassed he's writing to his doctor in a cipher. Yor buys it, but Franky mentally notes how this script makes no sense.
• Franky wanted to use his disguise to pick up women. Then we get this exchange:
  Twilight: Using deception to get women is wrong.
  Franky: YOU'RE ONE TO TALK!

Mission 15:

• In the anime, Yor's instruction on how to throw the ball ends up with it speeding forth, the first time rebounding across trees like a pinball and hitting hard enough that one of them breaks and falls over, and the second time looking more like a comet than a speeding ball. Anya can only watch these throws happen with terrified awe.
• Anya knows that becoming friends with Damian will help her dad with his mission, but as she puts it...
  Anya: But he's always so mean to me, so I hate him.
• The sheer Lampshade Hanging of Bill Watkins being Younger Than He Looks (he's six but looks like a muscular teenager or young adult). Plus, Becky's confusion on the fact there are kindergarten sports tournaments. Even better when you realise he's the same oddly-large student from the anime whom Loid stuck a "Sorry" sign on his back.
  • The anime ups the ante by giving him a deep baritone that puts most adult men to shame.
• Dodgeball is such Serious Business for Bill in the anime that he trained himself using wooden silhouette targets, shattering them and managing to bend a metal street lamp as collateral.
• While it's heartwarming to have the anime show that Bill loves his father, hearing Bill affectionately call him "Daddy" in his deep voice is...incongruous, to say the least.
• The anime adds shonen-like drama when Damian and his friends' attempts to take down Bill, including flashbacks to them training on the playground, but in their imagination they're in Dragon Ball locales (including Damian "catching" Frieza's Death Ball on Namek). Even Emile's Taking the Bullet is treated as if he died by Ewen, shortly before he's also hit, because the game was still going on and Talking Is a Free Action isn't in effect.
• Bill has a minor breakdown after Anya dodges all of his throws by reading his mind.
• The return of Anya's smug smile.
  Anya: Heh.
• When Anya is the last one standing following Damian's Heroic Sacrifice:
  Anya: I can't let sy-on boy die in vain...
  Damian: (from the sideline) I'm not dead!
• Just the sheer Epic Fail of Anya throwing the ball. It's down to just her, and so there's an entire page with her preparing to throw the ball, then a two-page spread showing her actually throwing it with all her might, complete with calling out her attack ("Killer shot! Star Catch Arrow!") and astonished reactions from the other kids, then... she ends up slamming it on the ground. In the anime the attack is given a bunch of flashy colors and epic music which immediately peters out following the aforementioned slamming. Everyone, including Anya, is so stunned by how badly she failed that once the ball rolls over to Bill he is able to casually hit her out.
• The chapter ends with Henderson pointing out to the class that despite the rumours, the school wouldn't hand out a prestigious Stella Star for a short game of dodgeball, but docks Bill with a Tonitrus Bolt for shouting "Die!" towards another student. He then starts thinking that the losing team should get a Stella Star, finding that them being willing to put aside their differences to help each other was Elegance. Only for them to immediately start bickering with each other and him rethinking that decision.
• The very last line is Anya making a mental note that she needs to stop asking her mother for advice. Or, as the anime puts it:
  Anya: Everything Mama teaches me is useless.

Extra Mission 2:

• Yor gets shot in the butt, and spends the whole chapter trying to hide it, such as standing up everywhere she goes. At one point, she even falls asleep in a bookstore while standing. There is also the fact that she still stopped on her way home to pick up the milk and eggs like Loid asked, despite having literally just been shot.
  • On that note, poor Yor's over-the-top pained faces thanks to her injury. She also thought one good night's sleep would heal her up, but even Yor's inexplicably superhuman body needs more time than that.
  • In the anime adaptation, rather than the expected blood-curdling screech of agony expected from being shot in the backside with a M1911 pistol by the surviving Red Circus terrorist, all Yor lets out instead is an adorable little "ouch" as if she has just stepped barefoot onto a stray piece of Lego.
• Loid somehow believing Yor's expressions of pain from her gunshot wound are because she's upset at him for making her go pick up milk and eggs on her way back, resulting in him panicking. Anya thinks how off he actually is.
  • He later takes her out on a date, coming up with 862 date plans, just to make sure he doesn't fail. How many of those plans get killed just because Yor didn't want to take a cab and would rather walk? 794.
• The way Anya tells Franky she wants to tail her parents is depicted as some kind of epic moment complete with Dramatic Wind around the tiny girl. Cue Franky being very enthusiastic about the idea, if only so he can spy on Twilight's dating techniques.
• To account for Bond's presence in the anime adaptation (as it takes place further in the series), Anya tasks Bond and her stuffed animals with guarding the house. Bond is given a pair of spy sunglasses, but seems to just be napping through it all rather than taking things seriously.
• Anya and Franky's... "inconspicuous" disguises as they try to tail Loid and Yor on their date.
• Franky and Anya think they are completely hidden from Twilight, cut to Twilight's point of view:
  Twilight: (thinking) What are they doing?
  Narrator: Spotted within seconds.
• While tailing Loid and Yor into the cinema, Anya predictably falls asleep in boredom like a young child would when watching a romantic drama; Franky on the other hand is so moved by the love story that he's crying like a schoolgirl.
• A bear at the zoo is scared out of its wits simply from the upset aura Yor is emitting.
• At the restaurant, Yor appears to finally have to sit down, only to be shown to manage to through sheer muscle strength and endurance hover in mid-squat a millimeter or so above the chair. She holds this position for at least a few minutes before an unexpected event lets her truly sit.
• Anya's Imagine Spot about Loid discovering Yor's true identity if an assassin comes after her:
  Loid: Y-You're a hired killer? I want a divorce. The Forger family is no more! Also, let's abandon Anya.
• Anya's 'Seriously?' face after Yor getting poisoned only serves to numb her pain.
  • To put more context why this is funny, one of the employees at the restaurant Loid and Yor went to is a surviving member of a terrorist group that was killed by Yor. Wanting to get revenge on her, the man decided to try and kill Yor by squeezing poison out of a puffer fish into her cocktail (puffer fish having some of the strongest poison of any animal). When Yor drank that cocktail... all it did was numb the pain from the bullet wound and feel a bit tingly. It's then noted Yor has built up immunity to poisons in general... except for alcohol, somehow.
    • To which, as a "wink-wink nudge-nudge" to the absurdity of Yor's survival, the narration box immediately reminds readers that: "Blowfish venom is actually a lethal toxin; do not attempt to utilize it for medicinal purposes".
  • Then it turns out the poison only numbed the pain temporarily, so she's back to being in pain the next morning.
• Speaking of absurd, one has to wonder how Anya managed to set up the traps so quickly when the guy decided to kill Yor with a bomb: filling a hallway with olive oil to make him slip, setting up a bucket to fall on his head when he entered the storage room, and finally making a (non-lethal) peanut bomb with the ingredients she read off the guy's mind.
  • Following that, while Anya making excellent use of telepathy to scare the guy into leaving his life of crime (like letting him know she knows he's from the Red Circus and has a girlfriend named Catherine) would count as an awesome moment, the fact that she was aiming at him with a colorful toy gun turns the scene hilariously absurd as well. The poor guy ends up thinking Anya is Yor's assassin apprentice and an Enfant Terrible.
• The anime dub adds a small conversation to what was originally a quiet moment, after the blowfish poison cocktail had 'no effect' upon Yor:
  Loid: I wonder what Anya's doing right now.
  Yor: Torturing Franky?
  (Loid chuckles)

Mission 16:

• Anya's reaction faces this time: her sweating face knowing exactly why Loid's looking at her after seeing her grades, and her devious smile as she plans to find out which of her classmates is good at which subject so she can read their minds and ace the tests.
  Loid: Young lady, we need to have a talk...
  Anya: Uh... Not now... Anya's kinda busy... (watching TV).
• Anya futilely flees as Loid reminds her she promised to study, outright hissing in fear after he picks her up.
  Anya: You demon! Papa is a demon!
• Loid tries to teach Anya responsibility by taking her to the local hospital to perform volunteer work... emphasis on tries. When she and Loid are asked to organize the books in the library, she just sits in one place and happily reads the comics available there, the predictable result of asking a young child to do such a task. Repeated mishaps and messes lead to Loid and Anya outright being told to leave by the frustrated nurse, meaning Anya got fired from volunteer work.
• Anya is in such a hurry to save the drowning boy that she gives her excuse while running away, leading to her voice getting fainter and faster as she goes full Motor Mouth before she turns a corner.
• Yor hugs Anya so tight she starts choking her.
  • That or Anya is remembering how Yor hugged Yuri.
• To celebrate Anya getting her Stella Star, Yor states she will make a special dinner for her. Anya replies she'd rather have Loid's cooking.

Mission 17:

• Anya has gotten a bit of a big head from earning her first Stella Star, now asking Becky to refer to her as Starlight Anya. At one point, she even refuses to acknowledge being talked to until she's called such, while Becky can only think "What a pain" after this fact.
• In the anime, the parts where Anya's imagination is shown are made better by how all the voices are Anya's imitation of the characters' voices.
• Anya hopes her Stella will help her make friends with Damian for the mission so Loid can meet his father and they can have World Peace... only for Damian to immediately crush that dream by telling her not to get a swelled head just because she got a Stella. Anya's mental reaction?
  Anya: That didn't go as planned. The world is in peril.
• Anya spends most of her time going to class with her smug face.
• We see how spoiled Becky is when she states that aside from a cute dress and gem-studded tiara, she hasn't received much else that was good from her parents. Said other gifts include: a diamond-studded doll, a small house in the yard, a cake at least 4 times taller than she is, a pink war plane and a pink tank. Anya thinks her family secretly rule the world.
• The first thing Anya thinks about as her prize for doing well? Lots of peanuts.
• When Anya thinks that getting a dog would get her closer to Twilight's target, she tells him that she "needs a dog for peace". Loid thinks she means "peace of mind".
  (Anya's thought process)
  Damian: Well, I bet my dog Max is cuter than your dog! Bring your dog to my house and I'll prove it! Your parents too!
  Donovan: Good day, Mr. Forger.
  Loid: Let's stop this war, Mr. Desmond.
  Narrator: And the world was saved.
• When thinking over what kind of dog to get, Loid thinks about a buff muscular dog while Yor thinks of an attack dog with the visual image of said hypothetical dog mauling Anya to death. The manga then clarifies this is the only type of dog Yor has encountered.
  • Then when Anya clarifies that she wants a cute dog, specifically a small one, Yor thinks of a cute dog with a knife between its teeth to cut Anya's throat.
  • Then there's how Anya has the misfortune of reading her parents' minds during all this.
• It appears that the oddity of this family is about to get bigger with the addition of a dog that can predict the future.

Volume 4

Short Mission 1:

• Anya introduces her mama as "strong, but fails at everything else", to Yor's shock.
• In order to pacify Anya after she threatens to run away following Loid yelling at her for trying to peek into his and Yor's rooms, Loid and Yor proceed to use the penguin plushie and a robot toy respectively to act as agents with Anya. Anya then creates a new mission for them to go to the candy store... all while her parents are acting like the agents, clearly embarrassed about being seen in public.
  • The anime makes it more hilarious with the embarrassed tones Loid and Yor use to "voice" the toys.

Mission 18:

• This chapter's Anyaface: her look of absolute disgust at Loid's attempt to claim three delinquent-looking dog candidates are cute.
• Anya ends up reading the minds of some of the candidate dogs.
  Dog 1: Me strong
  Dog 2: Me gots big muscles
  Anya: I don't like these dogs at all.
  • On closer look, the dogs are flexing as if they were human bodybuilders showing off their spectacular muscles.
  • And while they may not have the most appealing appearance, the three dogs are as friendly as any normal dog. One wags their tail excitedly, another tries to give Anya a affectionate look, and they flex to try and show off to her.
• Anya 'helps' Loid's cover story when he's suddenly called away:
  Loid: Sorry, but I'm... having some bowel issues right now. Why don't you two go on ahead? The shelter's right by the station. I have to find a restroom.
  Anya: ...
  Yor: Loid, are you okay? We'll just wait here for you!
  Anya: Papa takes a real long time to take a crap, so we should go.^NoteSome subtitles replace "crap" with "shit", hence Loid's line after this.
  Yor: Oh, I... I see. I guess that's fine, then...
  Loid: Watch your language, young lady. (thinking) I appreciate her backing my play, but... uh...
• When Yor and Anya go to the shelter's adoption event, Anya is excited to see tiny dogs... then immediately is distracted by kitties and bunnies. In the anime, Anya is audibly and visibly hyperventilating with happiness after running to each cage of said adorable fluffy animals.

Short Mission 2:

• Franky meets with Twilight for an important mission: he has fallen in love. Twilight just glares at him with a look stating "you're wasting my time with this?".
• Franky threatens he will sell Twilight's secrets to the SSS if he doesn't help him. Twilight gives him one heck of a Death Glare that manages to combine his shock that Franky would dare to make such a threat with the clear message that it was very stupid to do so. Franky quickly admits he was only kidding.
• Franky gets Twilight to hear him out by offering him a gadget free of charge next time.
• Franky tells Twilight about the girl, which includes every possible detail about her from her job to her childhood nickname. A stunned Twilight just states he is a stalker. Franky tries to claim he is being a hypocrite since he does a background check on everyone he meets, but Twilight cuts him off by reminding him that's his job.
  • In the anime, Franky is screaming at Twilight, only for a subtitle stating "They are whispering" to show up.
  • Twilight crafts Franky a ginormous conversation flow chart in a few minutes, suggesting he memorize it and select the appropriate answers, something which is an everyday occurrence for him. Franky's reaction is entirely understandable:
    Franky: How am I supposed to do that, you dumbass?! That's tens of thousands of possibilities!
  • Finally, since Franky doesn't want to practice talking with Twilight in a romantic way and doesn't want to have him listening in on their conversation either, Twilight simply disguises himself as the girl so they can practice more easily.
• Franky states he feels confident in asking her out after Twilight gives him some tips, but Twilight can already tell he is going to fail miserably.
• While out with Yor and Anya the next day, Twilight catches sight of Franky and asks him how it went. Franky replies with a blatantly obvious lie that she accepted but had to delay the date. The truth that Anya reads in his mind is so pitiable that she pats him in sympathy.
• The chapter ends with Anya and Yor at the park, with Yor clearly enjoying herself more than she should on the playground to the surprise of the other kids.

Mission 19:

• Yor's imagination runs wild again, thinking that a giant dog ate Anya, with the next Imagine Spot of her being kidnapped by a child-trafficker in a tacky punk-rocker jacket with a bad '80s Hair mullet; both made more hilarious in the Anime adaptation, with Anya flatly whispering "Ouch" and "Oh no" in the same deadpan voice that she used when she told Mr Henderson "I was stretching my arms and his face happened to be there" after hitting Damian.
  • While trying to frantically find Anya, Yor resorts to casually leaping up and back to hang from the ceiling via the rafters to get a better vantage point. She does it so quickly and quietly that nobody seems to notice, except for one startled passerby when Yor jumps back down to the ground. In the anime, said passerby can be seen behind Yor watching her in confusion as she paces over the idea Anya has been kidnapped by traffickers.
• When Anya tells the dog to run to the police station to get help, he turns the corner twice and runs right back into the bad guys. Anya's expression goes completely flat.
  "We're right back where we started!"
• Thinking the terrorists were child traffickers trying to marry Anya, Yor yells at them that she's too young to get married. Keith responds with a confused "wha?"
  • The Anime ups the hilarity by having Yor adorably blushing in embarrassment while adding "I've barely just gotten married myself.", making the amateur terrorist even more confused.

Mission 20:

• Yor makes such a Nightmare Face, she scares away an attack dog and terrifies Anya more than the terrorists did. She even growls at the dog when she turns around.
• After Anya explains what's going on about the bomb dogs, Yor inspects the dog Anya brought to make sure he doesn't have a bomb attached.

Mission 21:

• Despite the high stakes, Anya's still a very young child. She has to ask a bystander for help reading the clock tower to tell how much time she has left to stop the terrorist plot (it's thirty minutes), and almost immediately forgets how much time she has left while caught up in the excitement.
  Anya: Which means it's going to happen in... <Beat> I can't read the clock!
• Anya is about to open the door with the bomb, only for "Doggy" to bark at her to remind her not to do that.
• Anya reveals that she doesn't know what fingerprints are, but dons gloves anyway to reenact her spy shows. Only too late does she realize two things: 1) she doesn't have anything to cut the wires with, and 2) her "experience" from TV with cutting wires does not match up to reality.
  Now let's see, red wire... red wire... GA~GAAAN!! (SH~SHOCK!) All the wires are BLACK!!!
  • That said, she still manages to save her dad and change the vision... by drawing a warning on the door with ketchup. But due to being a young child, her art and language skills are lacking and she could only write a big "NO" and draw a crude bomb underneath it. Loid's teammate initially thought that drawing was of an eggplant.
• "Doggy" licks the ketchup off of Anya's cheek.
• Twilight is short on time to save the target, so he just mugs him and acts as him to trick the terrorist since he needed his clothes to fool the dog. The target yells at Handler about this treatment, who, after explaining Twilight's actions, tells him to leave for the conference, but reminds him to put some clothes on for Westalis' national dignity.
• Keith the college terrorist is baffled how an untrained government official in his 60's (actually Twilight in disguise) is able to move around with such agility.

Mission 22:

• Yor stops the fleeing Keith by diving off an overpass, and driving a side-kick into his car's left-flank, causing it to skid out of control and crash into a lightpole, with an angry but still adorable pout, as if she just finished spanking a naughty puppy.
• Yor's rather unconvincing cover story when she calls the police is to casually claim that she is just a normal housewife who in the course of one day happened to come across unconscious terrorists twice. She then hangs up and continues running around the city calling for Anya as if the car kicking never happened.
• Loid has to play up the idea he was in the bathroom this entire time, causing Yor to think it was caused by her cooking.
• "Doggy" actually blushes when Loid thanks him for protecting Anya.
• Anya threatens to "go bad" and quit school entirely if they don't get to keep "Doggy", which causes two expert spies to relent.
• Each family member has a thought on how they helped save the day:
  • Yor is cheerful that she was able to stop the terrorist and amused that no one will ever know.
  • Anya is happy she was able to stop a bomb to save Loid and save the world.
  • On the other hand Loid is completely exhausted after narrowly stopping the assassination and now actually has a stomachache. The anime shows that he's so tired he's visibly staggering.
    • The adorable little coda in the Anime as the family of heroes walk home thinking to themselves:
    Yor: Giggles
    Anya: Giggles
    Loid: Grooooaaaan...

Mission 23:

• Anya makes a sinister smile on thinking about using Operation Friendship that scares some nearby students.
• The overly dramatic way Anya informs Becky of her family getting a dog.
  Anya: Hear me, Becky. A dog has appeared at Anya's house.
• Anya's absolutely horrified face when Damian doesn't play by her script after she tells him she has a dog, and rather than trying to compete with her, he's completely uninterested.
  Anya: (thinking) The world...is doomed!
  • In the anime, Atsumi Tanezaki uses her normal voice when Anya gasps in horror, causing the little girl to momentarily have a grown woman's voice as her hopes and dreams collapse.
• Damian asks Anya what her dog's name is:
  Anya: ... Dog.
  Damian: You are wholly unfit to own a pet.
  • The anime moves the beat after Anya gives the name, the three dots included.
• Anya asks Becky for tips on how to name the dog. Becky suggests giving him a name based on his appearance.
  Anya: Furry!
  Becky: Maybe you should let your mom and dad handle this.
  Anya: Am I... bad at this?
• When Anya gets home Doggy tackles her to the ground and licks her. She begs for help and claims he's trying to eat her.
• Yor interprets Loid saying dogs prefer plosives as dogs preferring explosives, and imagines asking the dog which assassination method she should use:
  Yor: Do you want me to stab this target?
  ("Doggy" shakes his head)
  Yor: So poison, then?
  ("Doggy" shakes his head)
  Yor: C-4 again? You always want to use C-4!
  • The Japanese version of this involves dogs not being able to tell consonants (子音, shi'in) apart well, with Yor thinking that dogs can't tell causes of death (死因, shi'in) apart well. Cut to Thorn Princess asking "Doggy" how he would like to die.
    Yor: Would you prefer to bleed to death? Or perhaps be crushed to death?
    ("Doggy" shakes his head)
    Yor: Stop being so unreasonable!
• Anya races off around the dog park... only to realize the dog's not following her.
  Anya: (agitated) DOGGY, YOU BE EXCITED TOO! It's not called an Anya park, you know!
  Doggy: ?
• Anya throws her shoe for the dog to fetch. He just looks blankly at it, and she has to go hopping along on one foot to get it back.
• Before they leave the park, Anya realizes she lost her gloves, and finds that a bulldog belonging to an old woman took them. She tries to get them back, but the bulldog growls as it jumps at her and (mentally) says "I found them! They're my treasure!" scaring her. Then, he realizes that Anya's dog is looming over him, and immediately drops the gloves in terror.
• Anya tries the newly named Bond's dog food:
  Anya: ... I've had worse, and I've had better.
• At the end of the chapter, the dog that Loid brawled with and threw in a dumpster from the previous chapter emerges from it confused as hell. The footnote assures the reader that they were later adopted by a kindly agent.

Volume 5

Mission 24:

• The chapter opens up with Loid noticing that Yor is coming home later than usual, a dark expression on her face and her hands covered in cuts, as she privately thinks she messed up so bad this could cost her her marriage. It is all set up as if she has been taking more assassinations and the latest one was botched. It then immediately turns out she is learning how to cook and just really terrible at it.
• Why did she want to learn how to cook? Because she thought her last meal caused Loid to be on the toilet all day.
• Anya demands Bond to show her the future to see what they will be having for dinner.
• Yor learning how to cook from Camilla:
  • Yor arrives to Camilla's house holding what looks like a bloody bag. Turns out it was just tomatoes and Yor squished them in transit.
  • Yor, for some reason, bought rope and a cactus with her cooking ingredients.
    Manga Note/Camilla (in anime): What is this even for?!
  • Due to not being used to this particular "weapon" (the potato peeler) she ends up mashing up the potatoes and cuts herself repeatedly, resulting in a bloody mess.
  • She cuts meat as thin as hair.
  • Yor's strength proves to be too much for the simplest tasks like cutting celery (she cuts through the celery and the cutting board multiple times!)
  • Camilla starts to insult Yor for how terrible she is doing, which causes Yuri to consider making her disappear. However after Camilla tells Yor she should just divorce Loid, he suddenly approves of her.
  • Yuri is invited to try her cooking. He claims it's amazing while puking and projecting blood out of his nose. Camilla and Dominic try it to find out whether it's good or bad, and end up collapsed on the floor.
  • Yor's second attempt is a "meatball" that's somehow bleeding and making squelching sounds.
  • What Yuri says as he's eating Yor's second dish while barfing:
    Yuri: It's so good that I'm breaking out in a cold sweat! Whoa, with each bite, more childhood memories flash before my eyes! Huh? Mom, is that you beckoning me on into the light?
    Dominic: Stop! Yuri, put down that fork!
  • In the anime, Yuri turns blue as he eats the "meatball". In the English Dub, he even explicitly says it's making him turn blue.
  • Camilla has a Pet the Dog moment toward Yor when she remembers that Yor and Yuri grew up without parents which meant that Yor had to cook Yuri's food for him...which she expresses by telling Yor she can hardly be blamed for having a skewed sense of taste when "this train wreck was the only one eating your food".
    Yuri: "Train wreck"!?
  • Meanwhile, Dominic is thinking "Yuri...thank goodness you grew up healthy!" when considering what Yuri grew up eating.
• Yor gets home and announces she's going to be making dinner tonight. Loid and Anya are terrified; so much so that the normally serious Loid finally adopts his wife and daughter's shared Running Gag of shouting "Ga~n!!" ("Clang!!" or literally "Sho~ck!!") in unison with Anya.
  Loid: It doesn't smell toxic.
  Anya: So this is my last meal.
• Loid and Anya are surprised that the dish Yor made actually tastes good. Yor is so happy that she makes something else. This dish causes both of them to collapse on the floor, in the exact same poses that Dominic and Camilla had after sampling Yor's earlier cooking attempt.
  Yor: OH NO.

Short Mission 3:

• Anya and Bond are watching a tv show where a bunch of animals are in a military, ending with the penguin dying of a gunshot wound. Loid even comments how morbid that cartoon is.
• When Anya is informed that her stuffed penguin's "wounds" are caused by claws and teeth, she immediately looks at Bond who just as quickly turns his head away from her. She then reads Bond's mind to find out if he attacked her penguin:
  Bond: (Thinking) Penguin bad. Hate him. Took my Anya. Jealous.
  • In the anime, it's shown that Bond internally has a very deep and gravelly voice, which gives the mental image of an elderly man getting jealous over a toy. Tyler Walker's take in the English dub for example makes Bond sound like a grizzled old cowboy while throwing an internal tantrum.
  • When Anya tearfully yells "Stupid Bond, I hate you!", the big pooch barks The Trademark Forger Family Exclamation of "Gw~aan" ("Shw~ock!")
• Yor's Epic Fail attempt to repair Anya's penguin.
  Yor: Oh dear, I somehow tore his head off...
  Anya: AAAAHHH! NOW HE'S EVEN DEADER!
• The fact that Loid remembered a line from Anya's Bondman show.
• After Anya and Bond make up, Loid wishes East and West relations could be mended just as easily.

Mission 25:

• Anya attempts to get Damian to become interested in Bond by "accidentally" dropping a family photo in his path. Damian and his cronies completely ignore her.
• Becky finally sees Loid in Anya's family photo and immediately develops a Precocious Crush on him, even asking if the clearly married man in the family photo is single.
  • Anya is rather overwhelmed by Becky's... enthusiasm.
    Anya: PAPA IS MARRIED TO MAMA!
• In the anime, when Damian's told that he and Anya are paired up together?
  Damian: (mentally) God damn it!
• Despite being told to make animals with their crafts project, Becky makes a doll that looks like Loid. When Henry reminds her that the instruction was to make an animal, she just replies that in the end, people are also animals. Henry is left shocked by the fact she is right and lets her carry on. To top it off, Becky decides it would be rude to label Loid an animal and promptly destroys the paper doll, opting to make a crocodile instead.
• Damian and Anya are left speechless after discovering Damian's mess of an art project (courtesy of Anya's attempts at helping) was given first prize by the trustees, who assumed its ragged appearance was a metaphor of Ostania rebounding from the war and Anya's hastily-made little Griffin was its deceased child. At the end of it all, even Henderson is just as stumped about that interpretation, wondering if times have really changed that much.

Mission 26:

• Damian imitates Anya's smugface to lord his score on a history quiz over her.
• Anya's unsubtle Evil Laugh upon realizing that it's Damian's mind she needs to read in order to cheat on the midterm exams. Noticing Anya chuckling by herself in the middle of remedial class, Mr. Henderson decides to give her extra work as punishment.
• Anya, desperate to know what's going to be on the midterm test, asks Bond to show her the future. When he shows her hamburger steak (which is what they will have for dinner), she gets really excited and enjoys the rest of her night. It isn't until she wakes up the next morning that she realizes she completely forgot to find out what's on the test.
• Yuri, being good at studying, is invited to help Anya with the test. The moment he appears, he and Loid clash again. Anya is immediately angry with him because she reads his thoughts, in which he belittles Anya and her lack of knowledge and is jealous of her for spending time with his sister. She decides to shut him up by answering the test he makes up (which is far too difficult) perfectly, then realizes that she appears to be too smart to need supplementary lessons from him.
• Anya eventually realizes that Yuri is a siscon, so she tells him that she wants to study so she can take care of Yor. Yuri, who is overwhelmed that Anya could love his sister so much, is then resolved to help her study, in the hope that he can hear his sister telling him that she loves him.
• In the manga, Anya mistakes Yuri saying "the whole enchilada" for him saying it's "a swole chihuahua", visualising a chihuahua doing a bodybuilder pose. ^ExplanationThe joke in Japanese was "Chiwa wa chikara." ("Knowledge is power."), which Anya misheard as "Chiwawa chikara." ("Powerful chihuahua.").
  • The anime translations use various alternatives, having Anya mishear "Knowledge is power" as "No leash is power" (Crunchyroll & Hulu), "Chihuahua power" (Netflix), or "Knowledge chihuahua" (Bilibili).
  • The anime also adds a brief sequence featuring a chihuahua transforming from its normal, cuddly appearance into a musclebound dog.
• Now motivated, Anya tries to see just how much she might be able to accomplish with enough knowledge.
  Anya: If I study, I'll be able to make medicine?
  Yuri: That's right.
  Anya: And make rockets, too?
  Yuri: Of course!
  Anya: And conquer the world?!
  Yuri: That's, uh... well... sure. Wait... you want to conquer the world?
• After an exhausting lesson, Anya and Yuri lie sweating on the floor.
  Yuri: (smugly smiling) Huff, huff... Well? Have you mastered that grammar now?
  Anya: (smugly smiling) Huff, huff... What's a "grammar"?
  Yuri: OKAY, THIS WAS A MASSIVE WASTE OF MY TIME!!
• Just as Yuri angrily leaves the apartment, Yor gets disappointed as she just made cookies for them. Yuri quickly returns, shoves the cookies down his throat and leaves again.
  Yuri: Mmmmh, so good! BLLLRRF!
• The crumbs are then eaten by Bond. On the next page, when Loid returns, Bond can be seen collapsed on the floor in a similar pose to the victims of Yor's cooking from Mission 24. In the anime you hear a offscreen strained "borf" from Bond right before he is revealed to have fainted.
• Anya decides to crack down on studying for her midterms to help Loid on his missions. Unfortunately, it turns out foreign language, one of the subjects she's studying, isn't on the midterms, much to Loid's dismay.

Mission 27:

• Loid's Imagine Spot of Anya, who has a very derpy look on her face while raising her arms and saying "I got this", which just makes Loid worry about her test scores even more.
• We are introduced to Daybreak, the world's most incompetent, but very lucky, spy. It says a lot when it's clear that Anya already is a better spy than him. His feats include:
  • Lots of unnecessary movements.
  • Avoiding two security guards by acting like a flag on a post. Twilight is amazed it actually worked.
  • Breaking a window in broad daylight in a secured area. Twilight covers for this by placing a soccer ball next to it to create the pretense that it was an accident.
  • Apparently he did little research when it came to his job, as he didn't think there would be a guard by the vault that holds all of the school's valuable documents.
  • Twilight has to all but force a cover on him to not get himself caught, even nearly rejecting the ID Twilight was trying to give him.
  • Wrote down detailed mission statements on his hand, including part of his shopping list. The code for the vault door was also misremembered, which he only realized after inputting it didn't work.
  • Was planning on placing evidence of his work on the papers he altered. Something Twilight thought was so stupid he couldn't help but call him out despite pretending to be knocked out.
  • When Twilight, still disguised as the professor, promises not to tell anyone if he spares him (while wondering if he would need to kill him in self defense), Daybreak instead orders him to tell everyone of his actions.
• Twilight is in such disbelief over Daybreak's idiocy that he wonders if the whole scenario is some kind of trap.
• The main reason his codename is Daybreak is because he thinks of himself as Twilight's rival.
• When Twilight realizes Daybreak was hired to alter the Desmond kids' tests, Twilight worries that his agency put way too much resources on getting a guy who would hire such an incompetent spy. ^note It is later revealed he was paid to make them fail their tests.
• Yor is proud of Anya getting over 100 points... with all of the test scores combined.
• Because Twilight undid Daybreak's work, his employer thought he failed his mission and fired him. So he was usurped by his "rival" without even knowing it.
  Daybreak: But my legend has only just been born!

Mission 28:

• Becky still has a massive Precocious Crush on Loid, even thinking "monster mode Loid" sounds really hot.
• Damian doesn't act much different from Anya after getting his first Stella Star.
• Becky still thinks Anya has a crush on Damian. When she focuses her attention on George Glooman, Becky concludes that Anya is just boy-crazy in general.
• It's revealed that George hired Daybreak with three months of his allowance to mess up Damian and his brother's scores.
• During the big musical sendoff for George, Anya's just watching it all, completely unimpressed.
  Anya: Becky... for real?
• George's classmates give him various gifts to see him off. Anya's is... a leaf she found on the road. In the anime, it's one of the leaves the students had to sweep up while cleaning the school grounds earlier that day.
• We switch to the Forger home, where Anya has just finished explaining the day's events to her parents. She bluntly sums it up as "so, yeah, that happened," while Yor gushes over how sweet a story it was.
• George comes home to learn his family isn't going bankrupt but in fact the Desmond group saved their company by buying them out thus he can stay at Eden. Cue the next day, an incredibly embarrassed George walking through school as Becky and Damian demand he pay back all the gifts he got while Anya gives him a friendly pat on the shoulder.
• Following the events of the above in Episode 19, Yor goes through some anime-original hijinks when she realizes Anya forgot her gym clothes and rushes to Eden ASAP. Highlights include:
  • Yor's Imagine Spot of Anya being expelled and becoming a delinquent, complete with pompadour and fishnet stockings, and using a tricycle as a getaway vehicle - with Yor reaching out to the imagined image as if it were really happening.
    Yor: Oh, no! Miss Anya, you mustn't! Loid will be so sad!
  • After a (seemingly reflexive) display of incredible speed and flexibility while trying to figure out what form of public transportation would get her to Eden fastest, Yor wordlessly realizes that it would be fastest for her to just parkour her way through the city. She manages to do just that, her superhuman displays going largely unnoticed.
  • The aforementioned display happens because an old woman in a nearby building accidentally drops a plant pot from her window. Yor spots it, catches it with her feet and kicks it back up, landing back on the window completely intact. The old woman doesn't even notice what happened.
  • Accidentally freaking out an Eden student by appearing as a ghost story figure, the "Spider Woman" (fittingly enough, Yor was climbing the walls like Spider-Man). Her intense, intimidating gaze through the window is helpfully captioned with "She's looking for Anya".
  • With her initial efforts at the school failing to locate Anya, Yor considers infiltration disguised as a teacher, only for another Imagine Spot to ambush her frazzled mind, wherein she is swarmed by children asking her questions from their textbooks. Being Book Dumb, Yor decides to not try this after all.
  • She runs into the farm animals from Mission 4, where the cow backs up respectfully... until it steps on a pig's tail, causing a chain reaction of loud, stampeding animals that leads Yor to flee (fearing she'll get caught).
  • At the end, Yor does catch up with Anya. It turns out Anya doesn't have gym class that day.
  • For some reason, Yor engages in Gratuitous English twice, thinking "Ohmygod!" before avoiding the crowd of Eden students, and despairingly going "Oh, nooo...!" after Anya says she doesn't need her gym clothes today.

Mission 29:

• Anya is assigned to investigate a job that interests her, and turns to her parents for help. First she asks Yor, who starts having an Imagine Spot about showing Anya her real job. Ending with her stabbing her target in a way that's "painless" while his blood bursts out and drenches Anya (who is dressed in a mini Thorn Princess outfit), and saying that if Loid asks, tell him they got messy at a "Tomato Festival". All the while, Anya is reading her mind with the most unamused expression before finally telling her she'll investigate Loid's job instead. The anime colors the blood neon pink, making it look as if Anya is watching a Danganronpa execution first-hand.
• Rather than showing her explaining the assignment to Loid, Anya is simply depicted saying:
  Anya: Papa! Blah, blah, yadda, yadda.
• Smug detective Anya.
• Anya returns from her adventure in the secret passage, only to realise that Loid is about to return to the consulting room where he left her to play. In an effort to make it seem like she was playing with the sand diorama he gave her, she tips all the figures into it. Upon seeing the state of it, Loid immediately assumes that Anya's mental state of one of disenfranchised chaos and that he's been a terrible father for not noticing her "misery".
• Anya makes many notes about Loid's work, except most of them are actually based on his inner thoughts about the spy-related reasons behind his psychiatry work. She panics when Loid tries to read her notepad, only to find that her handwriting is so bad that even he can't decipher it.
• Back home, Yor asks Anya if she got to witness Loid's "concussive therapy," boasting about how impressive it is while Loid hastily claims he only does that in emergencies. Anya can only remark "Papa is filled with violence."
• Henry's horrified "Loid Forger?!", complete with monocle dropping off, when Anya mentions Loid's "concussive therapy". Meanwhile, Loid gets a nasty cold shiver all of a sudden, and he later gets summoned to the school about this. All we're told is that he talked his way out of this with his "incredible equivocation skills".

Mission 30:

• Yor has managed to somehow seriously mess up making fried eggs.
• Fiona (AKA Nightfall) is another WISE agent, who arrives to give Loid some information. She is always completely stoic, showing no emotion, and her coworkers complain that she's trying to steal the wife position in Operation Strix for her own ambition. Even Loid is worried when she shows up. Anya, realizing that she's a spy, reads her mind to see what she's like... and we get a full splash page of her silently declaring her love for Twilight. After a Double Take where Anya apparently needs to rub her eyes a bit in sheer shock, she reads Fiona's mind again. This time around she declares her love like some Smitten Teenage Girl complete with hearts that clashes heavily with her stoic appearance. Cue an extended Imagine Spot where she shows how much of a better wife than Yor she'd be to Loid and they get married for real in an overblown wedding. Anya can only stare at Fiona in utter disbelief for a long period of time. In a series that is full of Hilarity Ensues chapter premises, this one takes the cake.
  • In the anime, Fiona's initial mental declarations of love for Twilight are so intense that Anya sensing her is depicted as if the little girl were engulfed in the light of a massive explosion, leading to the Imagine Spot of Fiona's dream life with Twilight.
• Fiona assumes Loid's taking milk with his coffee as part of his facade. In truth, he's hoping it'll lessen the damage to his stomach, and thinks about asking Yor to switch him to decaf.
• As Anya finds out how spartan Fiona would be if she were her mother:
  Anya: Every fiber of Anya's being does not want this mama!
• In an attempt to stop Fiona from becoming her "new mom" due to seeing how Fiona would train her to get Stella stars, Anya tries to acts all lovey-dovey to Yor. Like a house cat, Anya affectionately rubs her head against Yor's legs, and when Fiona tries to offer some imported cocoa, Anya hisses at her.

Volume 6

Mission 31:

• Nightfall continues to have thought bubbles filled with hearts and having fantasies of Twilight while said scene still shows her as stone-faced as ever. Her thoughts routinely end with a sudden mental declaration of "I love you!"
  • In some translations it's taken even further by making those declarations along the lines of "I LUUUUUUUUUUUV YOU!".
• The entire premise: A secret underground tennis tournament is the best way to get close to a target. Twilight spends most of the arc wondering why everyone is taking it all so seriously.
  Twilight: (remembering his colleague warning him about Nightfall acting rash) I hate this mission already.
• Their cover story for the underground tennis tournament is they are a husband and wife team. Twilight wonders why that is their cover story whereas Nightfall is giddy that the people think they are married.
• Upon meeting their rivals - a hardened pair of ex-tennis pros - the following exchange occurs:
  Walson: We've spent months in the mountains training ourselves bloody in anticipation of this day.
  Twilight: Heh. Well, let's all do our best and have a great game!
• After a rival tennis team takes a Super Serum developed with help from the government, they go from skinny to being built like a brick house. Even the announcer is startled by their appearance.
• Yor considering if she should "take care of" Fiona if there is any possibility of her taking the position of wife in the family, looking like she is about to crush the tennis ball in her hand, only to inwardly freak out (while shaking her body about adorably) that she really shouldn't think such things. Anya watches disturbed, just wanting her to hand over the tennis ball.

Mission 32:

• The newly hulked-out rivals start insulting Twilight, first suggesting he's peed his pants in terror and Nightfall should change his diaper, to which Nightfall's reaction is to privately think she'd be happy to, then calling Twilight brainless, which causes Nightfall to snap and utterly annihilate them on the tennis court, hitting them with every single smash.
• Daybreak makes a reappearance in the tournament, using a table tennis racket. What makes it even funnier is considering Twilight and Nightfall face him following the Bolic twins, that means Daybreak somehow was able to both afford the expensive entrance fee and managed to win enough matches to make it to that point despite said racket.
• Nightfall appears to experience a variation of The Immodest Orgasm when Twilight grabs her hand, in the sense that she is only loud in her thoughts (her free hand spasming several times while she loudly moans in her mind), believing for a few seconds that he wants to ravish her.

Mission 33:

• When Twilight and Nightfall pretend to be drunk to cover their weird moves to dodge bullets and yet do amazingly, the announcer thinks it's the legendary Drunken Fist Style of the Far East.
• Campbell's touched by seeing Twilight encourage his son to redeem himself:
  Campbell: I may have lost the tournament, but... I gained something too. Look at how my little boy has grown!
  Guest: Do you understand how much money you just lost?
• Nightfall summarizes their chosen prize as a "strange pot and bad taste rings." Twilight suggests they give them to Handler as a gift. When we next see Handler, she is openly wearing the rings.

Mission 34:

• Anya mixes up her sports terminology.
  Anya: I hit so many home runs!
• Yor accepts Nightfall's request for a tennis match because she believes there would be dire consequences if she didn't:
  (In Yor's mind)
  Loid: I wish I'd married a strong tennis player. I report weak ones to the SSS.
  Fiona: Is that right? I'm good at tennis.
  Anya: (Reading Yor's mind with a shocked face)
  • Nightfall's Imagine Spot in the anime:
    Yor: (crying) I didn't know my place. I will let Fiona take my place as your wife.
    Loid: (cheerfully gives thumbs up) Okay!
• Yor starts off the serve, an intense look in her eye, only to appear to completely miss the ball as it hits the ground. It quickly turns out she did in fact hit the ball, but she hit it so hard the ball sliced through the strings on the racket and split into several pieces seconds later.
  Yor: (Thinking) Darn it, Yor, you did it again.
  Nightfall: (Looks shocked)
  • The utterly mournful look on Yor's face while she's mentally apologising to the recently-diced "Ball-san".
• Loid's nonchalant reaction to Nightfall's loss, combined with his attempt to dissuade her from challenging Yor to tennis, heavily implies Nightfall's result was a common occurrence when he was training with her for the tournament.
  • Made explicit in the anime:
    Loid: That's why I said 'don't.'
• After losing the match, Nightfall speeds away with tears in her eyes claiming she will never give up. Anya thinks she has a lot of energy. Handler later tells Twilight that she left for the mountains to train.
  • What makes it funnier is that Nightfall, who was almost always shown with a stoic face before, is showing far more emotion than she ever did before, looking as if she's close to bawling her eyes out.
• The driving plot of this arc was WISE's pursuit of a dossier left behind by the late Colonel Erik Zacharis, which is said to "reignite the flames of war". They thought it was the war between East and West which could kick off again if Erik was harbouring very nasty secrets between the two nations, but in fact, it was the war between Zacharis and his wife over his obsession with his hobby. Meaning this entire mission was completely pointless. Twilight even angrily checks over the dossier several times for some kind of legitimately dangerous secret so that he wouldn't have wasted a lot of time chasing a merchandise stash.
  • Even better, his hobby was an obsession with young musically inclined starlets. Basically, he's an idol otaku in fictional Europe, or its equivalent of a Takarazuka Revue fan (which does sell collectible pictures of its young actresses and has many expensive and rare merch items).
  • When the Handler says that he should have burned the photos if he loved his family so much (after seeing a photo of him and his family), one of the other spies eagerly comes to his defense, claiming she didn't understand and that the rare photos were valuable, implying that he's a fan too.
• The chapter closes out on Nightfall in a forest angrily swinging a boulder attached to a stick, with the animals watching nervously behind her.

Mission 35:

• Yor is so out of it at the start of the chapter she walks face-first into a light pole.
• Franky's arguing with Loid about always being the one to babysit Anya. Loid offers him some money for it, and Franky flips from being insulted to taking Anya for a walk on the spot:
  Loid: Fine. Here. (holds out money)
  Franky: Not everything is about money, you know. The nerve! (turns around) Okay, guys! Who wants to go to the park?! Let's have some fun!
• When Yor lacks the courage to bring up the issue of Fiona and whether or not Loid would prefer her as his wife (thinking that if so, it would be better for her to bow out gracefully), she decides to trust in Liquid Courage, downing her own drink in an instant and then grabbing Loid's bottle of scotch as well. Unfortunately she forgot that she's a lousy drunk and almost immediately begins shamelessly, furiously and loudly accusing Loid of having feelings for Fiona or even carrying on a relationship with her, capping off her tirade with a miserable "GOD DAMN!"
  Yor: Oh, alcohol! Give me strength! Open, throat!
• The bartender's reaction to the drama.
  Bartender: Being such a hot guy must be rough.
• Loid for a moment is shocked as he realizes Yor may have romantic feelings for him, but calms himself in a tenth of a second with the stoic declaration "I am Twilight."
• Loid tries to pull a honey trap on a drunk Yor and take advantage of her romantic feelings for him, asking her to marry him for real. However, Yor's so drunk and embarrassed (represented by a "racing heart meter" that rapidly fills and bursts) that she kicks him in the chin, sending him flying.
  • Loid manages to seemingly recover from the kick, but then begins bleeding from the mouth and is so horrified by Yor's kneejerk reaction he reasons that he must have completely misread the situation, which leads to him having an internal mental explosion thinking he's been duped in a triple-layer honey trap, wonders briefly if Yor is actually a spy, and collapses.
  • Five minutes later, he wakes up on a drunk Yor's lap while she's singing his childhood lullaby, but she's forgotten the rest of the lyrics. Turns out they got kicked out by the bartender because of their antics. There's also the funny implication that Yor had to carry the unconscious Loid from the bar to the park bench.
  • Twilight is in shock that he was unconscious for five whole minutes, noting no one has been able to knock him out like that since his instructor (probably Handler ten years ago) got too rough with him in training. Instead of fully realizing how powerful Yor is, he instead concludes he must be going soft.
  • Then when Loid and Yor come home, Loid has a massive lump on his chin from where Yor kicked him. Franky can barely hold back his laughter and tries to help Anya touch it.
• In the end, Yor has almost no memory of the night before due to being drunk, and wonders what happened to Loid's chin - it's noted Loid had to again reassure Yor out of her insecurities via repeating basically the same conversation from before. In the English dub, despite having forgotten the night before, Yor still subconsciously remembered Anya's term of "chin monster", and calls it that as well.

Mission 36:

• Anya's dramatic scowl when thinking about how she's all but given up on collecting Stella stars.
• One of Damian's minions brings up Loid "beating up his patients".
• Becky still mistakes Anya's desire to help her father by being friends with Damian as a crush, even after she flat-out rejects the idea.
• Becky invited Anya shopping with the chance to meet Loid, then is depressed when he had something to do and didn't get to meet him.
  • She also states that Yor was prettier than the picture, and claims she will be a tough rival. Her maid Martha internally comments on how homewrecking is a no-no.
• Loid ends up giving Anya a good chunk of dalc bills because he sees it valuable to forge a relationship with the Blackbells, and thinks the agency will see value in giving a six year old that much spending money. Yor is shocked by the amount, while meanwhile, Becky thinks it's not much.
• Anya's dumbfounded reaction to the high-class department store Becky took her to, particularly in the anime, which shows her practically short-circuiting.
• The increasing number of bags and boxes Martha ends up carrying as the trip goes on (which are all Becky's). It gets to the point where there's a literal wall and Martha comments that Becky bought too much. Becky meanwhile thinks Martha disappeared.
• By the end of their exhausting shopping trip both Anya and Becky have forgotten why they went shopping in the first place.
• Loid's reaction to finding out the keychain Anya bought was almost 1000 dollars^note 300 dalc ≈ ¥100,000/$1,000.
• Bond still doesn't like sharing Anya, as he immediately pays attention when she talks about her friendship with Becky.

Mission 37:

• Damian flips out over thinking Anya's following him in order to suck up to his father:
  Damian: YOU STUPID COW! GROW SOME LEGS, RUNT! YOU'RE A CREEPY STALKER FREAK! KEEP AWAY FROM ME! (runs away)
  Anya: I think I should probably punch him again.
  Becky: No, Anya, you'll get expelled.
• Anya tries giving Damian a rousing speech to encourage him to meet his father, but, well, she is still young...
  Anya: You're afraid that your father is gonna find out how bad you did on the test. I know exactly how you feel. I got a 17.
  Loid: (listening in disguise) ...
  Damian: Don't compare yourself to me!
  Anya: I don't really know if my papa likes me or not, so I'm a little scared too. (His mind is so complicated.) And he gets mad at me a lot. But...
  Loid: (thinking) Anya...
  Anya: ...I believe in him. Because I love him. And so... I am going to summon all my courage... to tell him I failed!
  (Loid, Becky, Damian, and his minions are left utterly confused.)
  Anya: Wait, what was I talking about?
  Becky: No idea.
• It's revealed that Loid made an exact replica of Anya's 300 dalc keychain, with only 10 dalcs' worth of materials.

Volume 7

Mission 38:

• Despite how focused he is on the task at hand, Loid can't help but take exception (at least in his thoughts) to Damian calling him "old man."
• Loid prepares for a harsh battle with Donovan when he brings up Anya punching his son, only for him to almost cheerfully state it's fine.
• Loid honestly stating how exhausting Anya can be, to the point Damian and his friends are genuinely sympathetic to his hardships.
• The fact that Loid, who picks up on every little thing around him, doesn't pick up on the fact Anya is trying to help him with his mission.
  Anya: (Sleep talking) Papa, wait! We'll fight the super boss together...
  Loid: (Thinking) And as usual, I have no idea what she's blabbing about.

Mission 39:

• Damian falls into the river while canoeing and his friends jump in to save him. Then they realise they can't swim, and panic momentarily, before deciding saving Damian matters most. It's all very touching and heroic... up until Mr. Green points out the river's shallow enough to stand and there's barely any current, leaving them all standing sheepishly in the middle of the river. To top it off, all three kids were wearing life vests so they weren't going to sink regardless!
• At Mr. Green's behest, Damian and company lift up a rock to find worms to use as bait, and Damian's reaction upon seeing the worms is to freak out and run for his life. His friends look at each other, smile evilly, and chase after him with worms in hand.
  • Damian does get some payback later, as Emile and Ewen are shown with large lumps on their heads while they're fishing.
• When Mr. Green delivers the kids' written reports to Henderson, the old teacher seems pleased, and then takes a look at Damian's, remarking that he needs to work on his ortography. Cut to Damian sleeping in his bed and sneezing before the Iris Out.

Mission 40:

• The entire plot of this chapter is set off by Bond having a premonition of... nothing. Bond's imagination runs a little wild with what the future might have in store for him. He comes to the conclusion that he's going to be killed by Yor's cooking so he dashes off to help Loid come home early and make him some real food. As it turns out, he may well have been right, because getting Loid to do his meal changes the vision. The anime pretty much confirms it by giving him a scene where he has a vision of her preparing something purple and bubbling for his meal before the static cuts in permanently, causing him to turn pale in terror.
  • Among the possibilities Bond thought up, he imagined getting caught by the scientists who used to experiment on him and being put down by them, and the family's reaction to that outcome. Bond is mentally prepared to die that way knowing he's lived a good life with his family, but the notion of dying to Yor's cooking frightens him to try and avoid that future. Bond considers getting executed a more dignified way to die!
  • Bond considers the idea of simply not eating what Yor makes for him...until he remembers Anya warning him that "If you make mama mad, she'll murderize you!" Leading to him picturing a scenario where Yor tearfully stabs him for refusing dinner.
• The mere fact that despite having been given a list of foods that dogs can't eat (and knowing Loid this would be an exhaustive list), Yor still somehow would have managed to make something deadly.
• What does Bond think Twilight does every day for work? Go spear wild boars like some sort of hunter-gatherer caveman, while still wearing a spiffy suit. He imagines killing one of the boars himself to speed up Twilight's "work."
• After Bond catches up with Loid on his newest mission, Loid recalls a rumor that the lab he's about to break into has connections to Project Apple and thus the experiments done on Bond and thinks Bond wants to help him to get some payback. Bond's reaction just screams Sure, Let's Go with That.

Short Mission 5:

• This short chapter focuses on Sylvia and some odd moments she had with Loid.
  • The first is when she met him to exchange information on Desmond, and he notices that the coat she bought to disguise herself still has the price tag on it, and he's too embarrassed to bring it up.
  • The second is a different meeting where she asks about progress with Operation Strix, and he tells her in a very serious tone that Anya can now jump over two vaulting boxes and jump rope five times in a row. Prompting her to think "You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!".

Mission 41:

• Yuri is shown to have some kind of odd reflexive response where he twitches whenever he hears a word that sounds close to Yor's name (in this case, "fjord"). His superior remarks it means he is working too hard, and Yuri replies that actually it "always happens."
• Though a mostly gloomy chapter, some levity comes at the end. First with Yuri referring to Anya as "Chihuahua Girl", then when Yor pats his head and compliments him, he happily screams her name and his thoughts are a constant string of YORYORYORYORYOR, causing Anya to retch in disgust and Yor to warn he'll disturb the neighbors.
  • A glowing handprint is left on Yuri from where Yor patted him on the head, as if he had been blessed by some deity.

Mission 42:

• The title page shows the school cast as playing cards: Becky is queen, Damian is king, and Anya, of course, is the joker.
• During their lunch break, Anya and Becky play with the sheep key chains for their bags that they got during their shopping trip in Mission 36. However, the story each tries to act out is radically different, with Becky wanting a romance of a sheep meeting her beloved prince sheep, while Anya thinks the sheep should be clones as they look the same. As they're not getting anywhere, Anya proposes a new story, with twins separated at birth who must battle each other, but Becky shoots it down, apparently having learned any battle play with Anya will lead to their toys getting torn up.
• Becky and Anya compete with Damian and his friends to get their hands on the Pastries of Knowledge, rumored among Eden's student body to make you smarter, which are currently in the form of macarons:
  • As Anya and Becky run for the cafeteria, the anime pops up a message saying "Please don't run in the hallway".
  • Anya is using a Ninja Run while the other kids are all running normally.
  • The two groups race against each other to get their hands on the last macaron... only to be beaten to the punch by George.
  • Becky and Damian, needless to say, are not happy, and start guilt-tripping George over what they did for him back in Mission 28. Anya chimes in to say she's still mad about the leaf.
  • The macaron is actually a set of five macarons, so they decide to split it between them, only to realize there's one person too many (including George) and start side-eyeing the other group. They opt to play Old Maid to decide who will not get a macaron.
• Believing that her telepath secret is at risk, after Damian thinks to himself the only way she could be so good at matching cards without cheating is if she could read minds, Anya starts treating the game with the intensity of a desperate gambler, complete with sweating profusely as she tries to make a plan.
• Anya may be a girl of many faces, but one face she can't manage is a poker face, being entirely too expressive to hide her emotions. Anya, however, has her own interpretation of why her poker face is seen through.
  Anya: Could it be that Second Son can read minds, too?!
• Anya eats a macaron and suddenly starts blazing with power and growling, throwing herself into her studies for the upcoming quiz. Cue the return of her quiz results... and she still failed most of them. The faces on everyone involved wouldn't look out of place in Nichijou.
• At the end Yor states she is going to try to make some desserts, to the horror of Bond.

Mission 43:

• Franky asks for Twilight's help to find the cat of a girl he likes. He walks away and keeps walking even when Franky offers intel.
• Franky's inventions he hopes will locate and catch the cat:
  • The first are a few replica cats that work as listening devices. The cats end up destroying them all, seeing them as strange cats encroaching on their territory.
  • The second is a box that releases the smell of catnip over a wide area, in particular dousing Yor and Franky, which prompts an entire stampede of cats to swarm the two. Some of them grab onto Yor, leaving her spinning for a good while as she doesn't want to accidentally hurt them. The cats also cling to Franky, one stuffing itself into his shirt and poking its head out happily.
  • The third is a grabber, that misses the agile cat.
  • The fourth is a camera-shaped net launcher, but the cat is smart enough to know it's a trap and doesn't let Franky get close enough to use it.
  • The fifth is an untested exoskeleton power suit that will supposedly give Franky superhuman speed and strength. However, it needs 15 minutes to warm up so the cat runs away, only for Yor to effortlessly tear off the engine-backpack of the metal-suit like it's made of cardboard and toss it like a missile ahead of the cat, blocking it and using the moment of distraction to leap at and grab him. The cat's reaction to seeing Yor closing in is as if Death herself is descending, and it becomes catatonic for some time afterward. Franky bemoans he'd been working on the now trashed suit for ten years.
• Turns out the girl Franky was after has a boyfriend. All that work and he never had a chance with her. He plays the disappointment off quite coolly, only to duck into an alleyway and start releasing sparkling tears.

Mission 44:

• Anya learns the raffle is rigged by the holder so that a specific person (his girlfriend) gets the cruise. When she learns where the winning ticket is by reading the raffle holder's mind, she pulls it out and gives a Death Glare to him.
  • So what are the other prizes? The manga mentioned the 6th and 7th prizes are pot scrubbers with different handles. The anime have them put up a prize list—and everything that's not the cruise are pot scrubbers.
• Anya's angel has all the willpower of a dead jellyfish, talking herself into going on the boat rather than give up on it and not make trouble for Yor, then joining in with Anya and Anya's devil to shout about how Anya wants to ride the boat. The darkness of Anya's shoulder devil outright gets shown covering up her angel.
• Loid expected that Sylvia would point a gun at him and tell him he's going to work until nothing's left of him but bones if he asked for time off. In reality, she was totally okay with it. Another agent whispers to him noting:
  Agent: HQ may or may not be trying to cut back on our shady overtime practices.

Volume 8

Mission 45:

• Anya is super excited about everything on the cruise ship... until she sees the size of her and Loid's room. She claims they confused it with the jail cells and tries to run off, only for Loid to grab her.
  • Then she gets excited about the fact she has never slept in a bunk bed before and picks the top. Loid just tells her not to fall off.
• Anya states they need to look at everything the ship has to offer before it sinks, startling some of the other passengers.
• Loid grapples with his new mission of rest and recreation:
  Loid: (thinking) I'm supposed to be enjoying myself! I have to reorient my efforts toward attaining optimal recreation!
  Loid: (out loud) Let's go watch a show!
  Anya: (thinking) Papa's so serious.
• When she is offered to hold the baby, Yor thinks to herself how she must be careful to not break his bones. The baby, seeming to sense this line of thought, starts screaming his head off.

Mission 46:

• The chapter opens with Yor's co-workers jealous that she got to go on a luxury cruise and enjoy fancy dinner. Cut to Yor being really nervous at dinner to the point where she can't taste said fancy food.
• Olka notes Yor really doesn't seem like someone involved in the underworld of Ostania. Yor's response simply proves Olka's point.
  Yor: Huh? Oh, I'm terribly sorry! I'll try harder.
• Anya's sole appearance in the chapter involves her stuffing her face with buffet food.
• Anya notes it's been awhile since they ate dinner without Yor, and Loid agrees, noting it feels a bit lonely. Anya notes his choice of words and that it must mean he feels lonely without Yor, leading Loid to claim in embarrassment that he only said it because Anya brought it up.
  Anya: Papa is so lonesome.
  Loid: (blushing ever so slightly) I am not!
• The director subdues a would-be assassin and asks him a series of questions, ordering him to answer only yes or no. The first time he delays in giving an answer, the director breaks his arm and warns he gets only two seconds to answer. The second time he delays, the director breaks his leg... only to immediately realize the question he had just asked wasn't a "yes or no" question and to basically go "My bad".

Mission 47:

• There's something darkly comedic about Yor earnestly chastising another assassin for shooting into a room with a baby in it, given said assassin is currently in his death throes from Yor nailing his head to the wall with one of her stilleto daggers.
• After dealing with the first assassin, Director's cover story for why the room is in such a state is that the client and his wife had a "little spat", a fight that somehow resulted in the door having several bullet holes and a large piece torn out of it.
• The Assassins are having a meeting on how to deal with the target, flat out stating no infighting due to having to deal with the Garden protecting their target. One guy just states they should be sure and kill every woman with a baby on the ship, only to be instantly killed by two other assassins for suggesting such a thing. The guy comments that he just said they can't have infighting, but since he wasn't with them he won't count that.
• While they're in the ship gift shop, Anya notices a keychain that she suddenly needs, badly. When she asks Loid to buy it for her, he instantly shoots it down, which prompts a full-on temper tantrum from Anya (the first we've ever really seen), including stomping her feet and shaking her fists.
• As Loid is noticing the bugs and suspicious groups in the area, he notes he and Anya need to be on their best behavior to stay out of trouble. Cut to Anya rolling on the floor crying out "I need it!" over and over towards the keychain.
  Loid: (Clearly exhausted) Our best behavior...
  Random Person: Maybe you should just buy it for her.
• Loid later starts stressing if he should buy her the gift, wondering if he would look suspicious if he didn't. He even has an Imagine Spot of the SSS figuring out he was a spy if he didn't. Anya, reading this, then calms down and states she doesn't really need it that badly, with the narration stating she now feels a little guilty about it.
• Anya misunderstands a hitman thinking he's going to flog his targets (the mother and baby Yor's protecting), assuming he's going to frog his targets - that is to say, attack them with frogs.^{(in JP)}he thinks about his prowess as a kusarigama (chain-sickle) user, with Anya misinterpreting gama (sickle) as the homophonous word for 'toad' Cue the Imagine Spot Running Gag about Loid discovering Yor's true identity if the frog-wielding hitman comes after her:
  Loid: Y-Yor... You're a hitman? And you hate frogs? I'm leaving you. The Forger family is over! And I'll abandon Anya too.
• Loid ends up buying the keychain Anya wanted. He plays the decision very dramatically, declaring the keychain will be a precious memory of their cruise as angelic light shines behind him and he gives his best fatherly smile.
  Loid: I am a normal father. A good father.
• However, Anya, so wrapped up in the assassin about to attack Yor, just yells at him about why she would be interested in that now and tells him to stay away. Loid proceeds to try to figure out why Anya is acting like this, concluding that Handler assigned this "vacation" as a secret mission due to the darkness in Anya's heart that he must heal her from.

Mission 48:

• In order to distract Loid from seeing Yor, Anya convinces him to try on every possible outfit in the store. Loid takes it with all the seriousness of being assigned a task by a commander.
  Anya: I pray that you come out looking cool.
  Loid: Leave it to me.
• Loid convinces himself that putting together an exciting outfit "is the right move" in order to accomplish the mission of keeping Anya mentally stable. Anya tries to use this to escape, but then remembers he's a quick-changer, and starts desperately trying to come up with a new plan. Only for Loid to look at himself and start to question what he should wear as nothing seems to match, and that he'll need to reconstruct fashion from first principles. Anya, hearing his thoughts and realizing he will indeed be in there for awhile, just quietly leaves after all.
• Anya manages to convince all the passengers that the man and woman trying to kill each other with chains and knives are circus performers. Yor goes for it and is very grateful that Anya failed to recognize her under the (tiny) domino mask she is wearing. Anya, meanwhile, has a rather deadpan expression with Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes on her face, clearly thinking "this is one of my stupidest plans but it's working."
• Having seen Yor fight seriously, Anya is reminded of how terrifying she can be and resolves to try to listen to her more in the future.
• At the end, Loid comes out dressed in his "tourist" get-up. A spiral-cone shell hat (think Slowbro's tail), sunglasses, a lei, a toy sword, a squirt gun, a tote bag, an inner tube, swim trunks with little octopi, striped socks, and pointed octopus shoes.
  • Anya simply says "So uncool" as Loid looks shocked◊ with Color Failure (which somehow really stands out even in a black-and-white manga).
• The Assassin Leader is sneaking back to the "Greys"' original cabin as two sailors finish their makeshift repairs. One of the sailors comments on the violence that must have gone on and says they're lucky nobody actually got murdered, totally unaware that at least three men have already died on the ship. We also learn the excuse the Director came up with for the damage to the room (namely the bullet and dagger holes) is that "Shaty" went crazy with an ice pick.

Mission 49:

• "Snoops"' dry disappintment at the fact any of the assassins onboard would be foolish enough to openly discuss betraying him when they know he has bugs all over the ship.
  Snoops: I guess stupid people really are just everywhere.
• A sleepy Anya stumbles about in a daze, declaring her adventure has only just begun, but proceeds to fall asleep standing up.
• Zeb tries to put up a tough front to show he will protect Olka and her son, only for a light knock on their door to cause him to freak out.

Mission 50:

• The chapter opens with Franky taking Bond out for a walk through the park, clearly not thrilled about it. He starts complaining until a passing young woman walking her puppy comments how cute Bond is. They talk for a bit and after the woman leaves, Franky asks "Hey, would you like to live with me?" Bond then gives a "Seriously?" groan and snorts.
• Twilight has a long, introspective inner monologue about his experiences as a spy, the nature of fear and the unknown, all set against a gorgeous sunrise over the ocean. The comedy comes in that all this has been brought about by the strange faces and behavior Anya exhibited the previous day, which have helped him realize there is still so much in the world he doesn't understand yet.
• In an attempt to distract Loid, Anya suggests they play a round of mini golf (she doesn't get the appeal, but thinks all adults love golfing). Not only does the distraction fail because Loid gets a hole-in-one on every hole, but Anya herself ends up getting distracted by her own failure at playing the game.
• Anya's further attempts to distract Loid end much the same way. They go to a library but Loid's already read all the books in it while Anya gets caught reading manga. Anya suggests a puzzle only for Loid to be able to do it in two minutes. Then she ends up being distracted by how much fun she's having doing things like watching a magic show and going roller skating, falling for Loid's "trap" as she puts it. By the end of the day, Loid's on the receiving end of one of Anya's death glares, much to his confusion.

Mission 51:

• While Zeb climbs a ladder to the upper deck, Yor opts to speed things along by picking up Olka and baby Gram and jumping with them a good ten feet up to that deck with ease. Zeb can only look on in shock and remark "wow".

Short Mission 6:

• Child Yor is told that herbal tea with honey is good for colds, so she rushes off to the mountains to gather the ingredients in the wild. She returns with a smile, her face swollen from bee stings and the carcass of a wild boar she fought and killed being dragged behind her. Yuri is convinced he can't get sick again or his sister will get herself killed.

Mission 52:

• As Yor carves her way through the assassins, two of them try to do a whole dramatic introduction. Unfortunately for them, Yor is not a believer in Talking Is a Free Action. One of them doesn't even get to finish his introduction.
  Esmerelda, Master of Wire: Now you face Esmerelda, Master of Wire!
  (cut to next panel with her lying on the floor and a hole in her head)
  King of Chakrams: I am the King of Chak-
  (cut to next panel with him lying on the floor and a hole in his head)
• The director cleaning up the assassins' corpses as fast as he can right behind her. He even reminds Yor to try keeping the bloodshed to a minimum to make the later cleanup easier.
• How does the chapter end? With Yor tearing up a little as she jammed a finger after she just got done killing over 20 assassins in hand-to-hand combat. The remaining assassins can only gawk in stunned silence while the director sighs as he cleans up the blood from one of the corpses.

Volume 9

Mission 54:

• The whole bit with Anya and Yor's dagger.
  • Anya tries to return Yor's lost dagger by throwing it back to her, complete with the dramatic mental declaration "O lightning bolt, deliver my aid! Riiising Hoooope!". It lands well away from the fighting, where Yor can't see or hear it. Cue scowling Anya.
  • As it turns out, she's just set off a chain of favorable Disaster Dominoes: when two surviving enemy assassins try to eliminate Olka and escape while Yor is occupied, one of them slips on the dagger and falls, hitting his head on a pipe and knocking himself out. He involuntarily fires his gun and hits his partner in the leg, which causes him to smash into the wall and also knock himself out, on top of said dagger planting itself on his butt. The gunshots from the commotion catch Yor's attention, allowing her to retrieve her dagger. Anya tries to pass it off as "exactly as planned", but even she's not buying it.
  • After Yor is finally done, she wonders how her dagger ended up in that place. She ultimately decides "the wind must have blown it away" and walks off.

Mission 55:

• Anya discreetly tells a shiphand about a bomb hidden in a clock on the upper deck by claiming that she saw someone rub a booger on it, which works since, while he doubts this is important right now, he has to be on guard for potential bombs. Anya also dons a tacky Sunglasses at Night type disguise despite the shiphand not knowing who she is regardless.
• After disarming all but one of the bombs, Loid doesn't have enough time to disarm the clock bomb, so he decides to rip the clock off and throw it overboard, while a ship hand begs him not to since the clock is an antique. He also accidentally blows up the Assassin Leader and Snoops brawling outside of the ship.
• In the anime, after all the craziness has ended, we get a little view of the Forger family during the third morning before they arrive at the island. A sleepy Anya rolls over, and literally falls off the top bunk before she's caught by Loid, just like he'd warned her against two days ago.

Mission 56:

• Yor's excuse for her swollen face is that the supposed department store representative and his wife had a fight, which blew the branch offer out.
• Yor keeps spinning on the zip line. Loid meanwhile has his arms crossed, only holding on with his leg strength, and looks completely unamused.
• Yor manages to power a tandem bicycle by herself, freaking out Loid and Anya.
• Anya's sandcastle is pretty much a mound of sand. Loid's is an elegant sculpture that stands taller than a man, much to Yor and Anya's shock.
• When the family goes snorkeling:
  Anya: (The fish are so pretty!)
  Yor: (Yes, they look delicious!)
• Yor's push to help Anya catch a wave is a little too powerful, sending Anya at high speed along the wave, clinging onto the surfboard for dear life, until Loid catches her from mid-air. Then after they settle down, Anya wants to do it again.

Mission 57:

• Anya comes home from school bummed because she failed to impress her rich classmates with her vacation on the cruise ship, and ended up making a fool of herself by telling a story that blends true details of the assassination plot that went on with her own increasingly far-fetched exaggerations. Loid can only stammer out that lying is bad while internally thinking about how deception should be done properly, Yuri agrees while his own thoughts are about the fact that he's constantly lying to his own sister about his job but it's okay as long as it's for Yor's sake, and Yor just nervously tries to reassure Anya to be confident in herself despite her own issues. Anya, who's picked up on all of this, sits through the awkward silence that ensues and grumpily agrees that lying is more trouble than it's worth.
  • The kicker is that we see Loid and Yuri's real thoughts on the matter through Anya's mindreading, but we don't see Yor's. Either Yor actually obliviously meant what she said completely, or she's just that much of a Bad Liar that Anya didn't even need to read her mind to know what she was actually thinking.
• The anime features an exclusive scene of Yor giving gifts to her coworkers^note In Japan, there is a practice known as Omiyage where one is expected to bring back souvenirs, usually treats, to show appreciation for holding the fort down while one is gone. While she gets cookies for Yuri per Loid's suggestion, she gets her co-workers the same keychains Anya wanted Loid to buy her. Her coworkers are a mix of flabbergasted and disappointed that she got them a children's toy (and even better when viewers remember they are about $1,000 each). Camilla admits that this is completely in-character for Yor, Millie complains how she was expecting candy or wine, while Sharon says she can make it a gift for her own kids.

Mission 58.1:

• While walking with Loid, Bond has some visions of minor misfortunes that happen to the pedestrians, including a kid who accidentally drops his ice-cream and gets mocked by his friends, and an old man who gets hit by a passing cyclist. His attempts to prevent them only result in Loid scolding him (and in the former, even cause the kid to drop his ice-cream anyway, though Loid buys him a new one to compensate). He has another of a woman getting pooped by a pigeon, and he decides it's not worth it.

Mission 58.2:

• When Bond catches on fire and gets doused in water, it's revealed Bond is actually skinny despite how fluffy he looks, bearing an amusing resemblance to Mr. Henderson. Even Loid, who's normally a master at keeping his composure, lets out a snort of laughter at the ridiculous sight.
  YouTube commenter: Bond looks like he's about to yell about how not elegant this situation is.
  • Bond is actually so fluffy he didn't even realize he was on fire until Loid said something.
• After Loid and Bond save a puppy from a burning building, Loid decides to keep quiet and not take credit for the heroic act, as it would draw unnecessary attention to them. Bond is sad, imagining a TV presenter lady rewarding him with a year's worth of meat.
• In the anime, there is a short montage of what everyone who wasn't on the cruise was doing.
  • Ewen and Emile are having a pillow fight while Damian is trying to study. One of them accidentally hits him with a pillow, and he angrily joins in to get revenge.
  • Yuri eats some muffins that Yor made him, and they're so bad that he vomits out a sparkling fountain of blood.
  • Fiona is practicing her skill at aiming with a gun, but all of her bullets form the shape of a heart around a photo of Loid.
  • After having a daydream where he saves a girl while wearing Powered Armor, Franky sets out to make some for real, only for his hair to catch on fire.

Short Mission 7:

• The entire episode is about Bondman meeting a variety of different women and seducing them ala James Bond. Except that instead of breaking it off with any of them, he just keeps acquiring more and more girlfriends until it reaches the point where they all violently gang up on him for being a playboy.
  • The final panel has Anya watching it and thinking that since it's a "lovey-dovey" show, she can finally talk about it with Becky. Sitting nearby, Loid cautions her against it while being disappointed in Bondman's behavior.
    Anya: Now I can discuss this with Becky. Anya has become an adult.
    Loid: Don't do that.

Mission 59:

• The chapter opens up with Becky watching Berlint in Love on the television, then turning to look at the Forger family photo she bogarted off Anya. It turns out that she's had said photo mounted above her mantelpiece in an expensive-looking frame which is far, far larger than necessary, though only in the manga.
• Normally when a bunch of symbols is used to reflect someone's feelings it is done for the reader. However, Anya is actually able to see them in Becky's mind - as if the young girl's brain has just stopped working - and wonders if they are some secret code.
• The way Becky is reacting to Loid's presence reminds Anya of Nightfall.
• Becky is given a tour of the Forger residence, and can't help but be Innocently Insensitive such as stating Anya's room is smaller than her dog's room. Anya suggests they stop the tour.
• Becky's Imagine Spot of winning Loid over sees her declaring it was Loid's parents who arranged his marriage with Yor, based off of her TV dramas. A handy note points out this is completely detached from reality.
• Becky thinks that Anya would actually be happier if she was her "mother." We get glimpses of Becky giving her a castle, a trip on a helicopter, delicious food, and no chores. Anya can't help but fall for this and even starts to help her (albeit "only a little").
  Anya: I'm sorry, Mama, but... world-class chefs!
• As Loid is trying to do some small talk/probing for information, Becky thinks he is trying to find out ways to romance her. Then after Loid reveals that he was just making small talk with Becky, she asks him "What?! You've just been playing with me the whole time?!", causing Loid to Spit Take, and even start to worry about how Yor will take this statement. Fortunately for all involved, she reads this as Loid playing with Becky the same way he would with Anya.
  • Meanwhile, Anya's mental reaction to 'hearing' Becky completely misinterpret Loid's intentions:
    Anya: This is kinda fun.
• Becky tries to seduce Loid by removing her Girlish Pigtails and doing a sexy Hair Flip, only for it to do absolutely nothing. She continues to try by moving her head side to side quickly, leaving Yor to wonder if she is expressing her joy.
  • Meanwhile, Anya is practicing hair flipping too.
• Becky tries the Playing Drunk trick to lean on Loid, who flatly (mentally) notes that her drink was tea, so that just isn't possible. Yor completely freaks out, thinking she accidentally added alcohol to her drink and rushes out of the house with Becky at full speed to get her to a hospital. Even getting hit by a car (which actually gets wrecked) doesn't slow her down, and she only stops when Becky admits she faked it to get close to Loid.
  • While carrying Becky, Yor gives various health advice that doesn't pertain to alcohol poisoning at all, including telling Becky to not fall asleep or she'll die, and trying to get her to do lamaze class breathing.
• After Becky admits her love for Loid and asks if that's a problem, Yor takes it as a Platonic Declaration of Love and is glad that Loid is loved by so many. This causes Becky to think she is open-minded and would be OK with her and Loid having an affair.
• Becky asks Yor how she managed to pierce Loid's heart:
  Yor: Oh, I would never do that. Loid could get hurt, and there are better ways to get the job done.
  Becky: Huh?
  Yor: Hm?
  Becky: Uh...
• Thinking Loid likes "physically strong" women, Becky decides to show off with a "Test Your Strength" Game, saying she's suddenly in the mood to hit something with a large hammer. Loid is confused, thinking privileged children are strange.
  • Becky's actual attempt at the game sees her fall over after lifting the hammer.
  • Yor then completely demolishes the game using only one hand and tries to claim she was an apprentice blacksmith in her youth to explain her strength.
    Yor: Oops. I should have held back more.
  • Everyone's mutual reaction to what Yor did is Black Bead Eyes and Stunned Silence. And on top of that, Becky somehow interprets such reaction on Loid as a sign of his intense love for Yor, when it was more likely him being completely surprised by the freakish strength of his wife.
    Becky: Look at the way Loid is staring at her! Just look at those dilated pupils! He's completely transfixed by her!
  • The prizes for the game include things like "Hyper Toothbrush" and "Turbo Slippers."
• The chapter ends the same way as Mission 7 with Yor helping Becky train to be stronger, with the latter's chauffeur Martha having the same expression Loid did, and Loid even thinking that this is deja vu. Meanwhile, Anya decides she prefers Yor as her mother after all.

Mission 60:

• The mission that required Fiona to partner with Franky to resolve? It's over the fact that an anti-West Ostanian economics committee member is unlawfully restricting strawberry exports to Westalis resulting in a national strawberry shortage. The reason why the issue is serious enough for diplomatic issues to warrant WISE intervening? Because their foreign minister threw a fit over having no strawberries on his birthday cake.
  • The committee member in question has a head shaped like a strawberry.

Mission 61:

• A Black Comedy moment: Anya desperately searches for a handkerchief in front of Madam Schlag, but only a piece of Bond's kibble rolls out. Knowing Madam Schlag, you know This Is Gonna Suck.
  • Anya had previously given Damian her handkerchief so that he wouldn't get in trouble for not having one, claiming that she had two of them in case a situation like this came up. But it turns out that Anya was only imagining how Loid would've handled things. She's not Crazy-Prepared like her father, and thus did not have a second handkerchief.

Volume 10

Mission 62.3:

• Why did Twilight have a Whole Episode Flashback to the war? Because last chapter Anya told him she got a Tonitrus Bolt, and he fainted. She has a visible sweatdrop when telling Twilight why he was asleep.

Mission 64:

• Anya's fake reason for wanting to get Stella Stars is because they look super-cool, shocking Mr. Henderson with its shallowness.
• After Anya gets home, she sees that Loid and Yor had extremely tough missions and are exhausted. She tries to make them feel better by asking if they'll help her study. This causes Loid to faint again when he thinks it means she got another Bolt.
  • The tough mission Yor was on? Apparently involved killing a ten-foot-tall, possibly superhuman, monster of a man. And she doesn't act like being in great danger herself in the fight was the reason for her exhaustion, but rather simply just how hard it had been to kill him.

Mission 65:

• Yor mistakes a saleslady selling eyeliner as her selling a concealed weapon for eyeballs. Further, this misunderstanding causes her to view the store as a place full of temptation, referencing her unusual love for sharp, piercing weapons that hasn't been shown much since the early chapters of the series. Her refusal to indulge said temptation also explains why this hasn't been shown much, as she is obsessively trying to be "normal" while still being unsure just what normal is.
• Melinda, surprisingly, isn't fazed witnessing Yor's powerful volleyball serves, unlike the other players. Instead, she more focuses on reminding Yor about the rules of volleyball.
• Yor's volleyball throws keep escalating, from leaving a crater in the floor, to breaking through the sports hall's roof, to launching into space. By the end, even though Yor's inexperience with volleyball still cost them the game, the other team was all-but-ready to burst into tears afterward.

Mission 66:

• Yor's unfamiliar with the term "First Lady", imagining herself as trying to be first in everything and Melinda as humanity's first woman.
• Anya imagines Damian and Melinda with similarly goofy expressions.
• Anya trying to come up with new ways to befriend Damian only to end up falling asleep.
• Becky tries to invoke Toast of Tardiness to get Anya and Damian together by shoving a yakisoba burger into Anya's mouth, only for Damian to casually sidestep Anya as she charges towards him. An enraged Anya spits out the burger, and it lands on Damian's head, contents and all.
  • Furthermore, the way the sandwich lands on Damian has Emile comparing the look to Anya's regular look (with the buns resembling her Horned Hairdo and a piece of cabbage looking like a tuft of Idiot Hair).

Volume 11

Mission 67.1:

• As a reward for giving Damian her handkerchief, Anya demands Damian invite her to his house. Becky tells her not to be so insistent, claiming it makes her look like a hussy.
• After learning that Anya's mother and his own mother are becoming friends, Damian internally remarks that if Anya were to find out any of his preschool-era secrets he'd be done for. Naturally, Anya reads his mind and finds out all of them anyways. Namely, he was a bed-wetter, he couldn't sleep without a stuffed animal, and he puked after eating a green pepper to seem more grown-up.
  Anya: (internally) Ooh, getting some good sy-on boy gossip here.
• Upon hearing that Gerald Gorey, the hospital's chief medical director, refuses to assign him any VIP patients out of spite, Loid's expression goes flat in a very Saitama-like way.
• Fiona begins to go on yet another spiel about how she'd be a better wife than Yor. Loid doesn't even let her get past the first sentence before shutting her down.
• Gerald resorts to some incredibly petty means to undermine Loid, who just plays along with it to get him off his back.
  • When he gives Loid the wrong meeting time so he's 30 minutes late on purpose, the other staff just shrug it off and instead express concern that he's working too hard recently. Gerald recalls he was once a minute late to a meeting and they insulted him instead, which may be telling of how the staff thinks of him.
  • He then gives Loid laxative-laced coffee. When he leaves for the bathroom, the kid he's working with is inspired by how hard he fights against stomach pains to gain the will to fight as well.
  • He forges a love letter to Fiona from Loid. Her reaction of having to feign ignorance for a fake letter from the person she loves as she crumples it is quite telling:
    Fiona: How I hate myself for wallowing in this obvious forgery for even a second.
  • Gerald's face in the last panel of the penultimate page when his forged letter plot falls apart; he looks like he took several laxatives himself!

Mission 67.2:

• Loid's look of utter shock when the SSS handcuffs him. It turns out that Loid had Franky intercept Gerald's call to the SSS, then disguise himself with Fiona to pretend to arrest Loid. Loid's shock was genuine, but not because he was in any actual danger—rather, it was because actually getting handcuffed wasn't part of the plan. When he angrily confronts Franky on it, Franky (barely holding back laughter) admits he did that just to see the look on his face. The look on Franky's own face as he explains this is also quite priceless.
• Loid's fake look of betrayal when it's "revealed" Gerald sold him out to the SSS.
• The varying stages of Oh, Crap! Gerald goes through as Loid turns the tables against him—first as Loid "unwittingly" points out how the evidence against Loid could only have been typed up by Gerald himself (and indirectly calling Gerald old in the process), then as Franky and Fiona list off Gerald's various misdeeds.
  • Loid managed to dig up numerous misdemeanors Gerald committed, and supplied them to Franky and Fiona. They start out fairly heinous (corrupt political dealings, falsifying reimbursement requests, and underground reselling of hospital supplies), only to devolve into increasingly childish acts like stealing a friend's luxury car to go on joyrides, lying about being the hospital's CEO on dates, and eating all of the doughnuts in the break room then blaming it on a subordinate.
• When Loid musters Crocodile Tears to make his defense of Gerald seem more realistic, Fiona thinks about how she'd love to harvest Twilight's tears, fake or not.
• Gerald becomes a blubbering mess after Loid "saves" him.
• The SSS officer Franky portrays has a laid-back, "cool-guy" personality. Twilight internally asks why Franky always has to play such weird characters.
• Afterwards, neither Franky nor Fiona want to take off the costumes Loid made for the act—Franky because he thinks it'll help him on a date and Fiona because Loid made it for her.
• Loid returns home in the evening and announces such to his family. Anya responds with "I'm home too, Papa!", and Yor helpfully retorts she's supposed to welcome him home instead.

Mission 68:

• Steel-Gut Gullickson, Yor's recent opponent as Thorn Princess, doesn't even get to finish his speech before Yor palm strikes him into the ocean. The steel gut in question even has a teddy bear sticker on it.
• Yuri's increasingly petty competition with Loid over domestic chores to prove he's more helpful to the recovering Yor. Loid meanwhile just plays along to soothe him, utterly done and baffled by his brother-in-law's antics.
  • The first round involves cooking, and while Loid pulls off a delectable set of dishes, Yuri's is a chaotic mishmash of various ingredients which have "YOR" energy emanating off of them, while smugly declaring he beat Loid on variety alone. Seems that being a Lethal Chef runs in the family...
  • Yuri pesters Loid into feeding Yor to prove that they love each other. Loid ends up doing this with a completely serious face while Yor is clearly freaking out over the gesture. In the end, Yuri (again) can't stand watching the couple and demands for Loid to stop, telling Anya to do it instead.
  • The second round is washing up. Yuri breaks all of his plates and cups.
  • Throughout all this, Anya wonders how she's going to study with things being this loud. Plus the fact that Anya, who dislikes/struggles at studying even though it's for Operation Strix, would rather do so than be around her uncle says a lot.
  • After losing several rounds of cleaning up, Yuri declares that the last challenge will be who can get replacement groceries in the quickest amount of time and for the least money. Loid's solution is to just use his knowledge of the local businesses to get the cheapest amounts, while Yuri badgers an informant using his SSS ID to know where the cheapest groceries are. Loid still beat him home.
  • One of the things Yuri bought was some whistle-candy, which Yor remembers fondly as she and Yuri used to scare away bears with it, including a flashback to them in a forest happily whistling while a bear hides behind a tree.
• By the end, even Yor is exasperated at her brother's antics and can only meekly apologize for his behavior after he left. Anyone who's had a difficult sibling/in-law can relate.
  • Meanwhile, Anya tries the whistle candy.

Short Mission 9:

• After Anya flunks yet another test, Loid tries to think of another way to teach her, but there are hardly any ideas from Spy Wars he can use, so he tries to make his own episode with Franky, complete with himself doing all of the voices.
• Loid and Franky are both pleased as punch when the episode is finished, only for Franky to flip and remind Loid he's an information broker, not an animator, only to then change his tune again when Loid hands him a large stack of cash.
• The result? A visually-decent fanmade episode, but the dialogue clearly has shoehorned educational information, almost to the point where the entire episode is filled with Non Sequiturs, showing that Loid isn't adept at scriptwriting a kids show. Anya's verdict?
  Anya: This cartoon sucks. I can't follow this at all.
  • Loid's reaction is another shocked Color Failure in black and white.
  • What's more, we had already seen Anya read Loid's mind when he first got the idea. She knew he was the one who made it, and she still held nothing back.
  • The fact that Loid's Color Failure shock/despair face◊ has become a Running Gag is also hilarious. Being a parent is never easy.

Mission 69:

• Anya's Imagine Spot of her new plan to befriend Damian, which is exactly the sort of plan you'd expect from a pre-schooler: Damian tries to get Anya expelled because she's ugly, she defends herself by saying she's "totes adorbs", the teacher agrees and says Damian should be expelled instead for being ugly on the inside, Anya jumps to his defense by saying he's not ugly, he's just a piece of crap, and Damian invites her to his house as gratitude for saving him. The cherry on top is that almost everybody in the Imagine Spot gets a pretty accurate depiction... apart from Damian, who looks like Anya's recurring derpface image of him.
• She begins her plan by throwing a ball of paper at Damian to catch his attention, then does an epic Anyaface to get him to call her an "uggo"... but Damian thinks she's just taking the piss and throws the paper ball back at her, hitting her in the face. Plan status: failed.
• When Becky asks Anya what snacks she brought for the trip, Anya reveals that she only brought peanuts (both salted and cheese flavoured). And a piece of Bond's kibble. She then offers the kibble to Damian who angrily yells at her.
  Damian: You want me to throw you off this bus?!

Mission 70:

• Anya's Bad "Bad Acting" returns as she claims she needs to go pee so she can read the terrorists' minds and find out where they're going.
  Anya: HO BOY, I REAAALLY NEED TO PEE! I DON'T KNOW WHERE WE'RE GOING, BUT IF WE DON'T GET THERE SOON, I'LL BE IN BIG TROUBLE!
  Becky: (whispering) Anya, what are you doing?!
  Anya: WAAAH! I SURE DO HOPE MY BLADDER CAN HOLD!
  • Later on, Damian decides to make a distraction so Anya and Becky can throw a message to any rescuers... and chooses the exact same plan as Anya.
    Damian: I am, like, right now... about to crap my pants.
    Becky: (thinking) That's just as bad as Anya's plan!
    • In the Spanish version, he says his poop is about to come out.
• The sheer Mood Whiplash when Anya and Becky have finished reading Damian's note, warning them not to try anything funny or risk getting killed, and then turn to see him grimacing with his arms crossed in an X in front of his body as if he's crying uncle.
  • Followed by Damian's confusion when trying to read Anya's terrible handwriting on her return note. Becky ends up having to rewrite the note herself so he can read it.

Mission 71:

• Becky's emergency message reaches her father, who is furious and immediately orders every single tank and fighter jet on hand at his company to obliterate the terrorists, only to get talked down by Martha from doing so, complete with her giving him a chop to the head.
• Anya finds out that the bomb collars are just fakes to try and scare the kids into complying, so she acts flippant about it and even whacks it while sporting her famous smug smile, much to the genuine horror of the other students, with Damian wondering if Anya was raised by an assassin to have nerves of steel like that.
  • Related, the Mass "Oh, Crap!" from the other students when she hits it is so overwhelming that Anya's telepathy is overwhelmed and she passes out for a second.
• After Damian gets strapped to one of the fake bomb collars, everyone is shocked at what happened. Anya, on the other hand...
  Anya: Ooh, we match!
  • Before that, when Damian mentions that all his fellow kids like him as a reason to attach the bomb collar on him instead of Anya, Anya's reaction to it is to privately think "We all like you?".
• After Anya comforts Damian, Becky notes that Anya can be surprisingly grown-up sometimes. A smug Anya then whacks her bomb collar again, and Becky and Damian's shock quickly turns to anger as they berate her for being an idiot.

Mission 72:

• Bill Watkins is still doing his best to keep everyone's spirits up while they await their rescue, showing maturity beyond his supposed age. Damian's response?
  Damian: Wow, you really are just a 40-year-old grade schooler.
  Bill: That's so rude!
• Apparently, Yuri wanted to help with the investigation so badly that his co-workers bound him to a pole. Fortunately, they decide to finally cut him some slack and give him a chance to investigate the second missing bus.
• Mr. Henderson discovers that Anya and the others are keeping composure despite the looming threat, and is particularly shocked by Anya's "nerves of steel", wondering if what she told him a while back ("Running through the jungle and training for life-or-death situations!", which was Bondman's training montage) was true after all.

Mission 74:

• The entire sequence of Anya trying to come up with an excuse to keep the soldiers off the bus, and the terrorists from blowing up the bus.
  • First, she realizes she probably should have thought of what to say before she confronted them.
  • Then she claims that she... wants food (because the soldiers didn't attack while the kids were being fed), making Henderson think that she doesn't have nerves of steel—she has nerves of tungsten. This excuse actually works because it convinces Billy that even the elites are starving, deconstructing his entire worldview. Anya, who is of course reading his mind, awkwardly goes along with it.
  • Billy sees his own daughter in her, so he removes the fake bomb and tells her to get off the bus. Anya refuses, since she realizes he's less likely to do bad things while she's here. At this point, Henderson is now just wondering if Anya's gone mad.
  • She repeats her father's line about wanting to create a world where kids don't have to cry, and Billy is moved by the nobility of that goal. Henderson and the other kids are just confused since she's a kid herself.

Mission 75:

• When the parents are allowed to come and collect their children, Yor runs all the way there at top speed, moving so fast Anya's hair gets lifted by the slipstream. The first sign she's turned up is the sound of her shouting Anya's name getting louder as she arrives on the scene.
  • To fully grasp just how fast Yor was running: as she’s running to get to Anya, not only does she see Melinda in her car as she rushes towards Damian, but she manages to run past it as well.
  • Just after Yor arrives, she asks if Anya's alright, and she says she is... before the terror fully catches up to her, leaving her bawling in her mother's arms. Henderson is relieved to see her have an "age-appropriate" reaction, after her nerves of steel/tungsten earlier.
  • While mostly heartwarming, Yor's reunion with Anya at first has her asking if the clearly intact girl is sure she wasn't stabbed, shot, crushed, or "torn to shreds." Clearly Yor was thinking of very violent possibilities.
• Anya's initial reaction when she reads Melinda's mind is her thinking it's Yuri all over again, with pretty much the exact same displeased expression she has when reading Yuri's mind.

Volume 12

Mission 76:

• Having gotten her second Stella Star for the Red Circus incident, Anya is back to her smug 'Starlight Anya' phase, even asking that other students call her "Double Starlight Anya". Becky is silently exasperated that this is happening yet again.
  • And some of the kids actually do it.
  • Anya gets so heady on her newfound fame that she starts fantasising she'll soon have a hundred friends, which might be enough to Take Over the World, complete with an Imagine Spot of demon lord Anya and her hundred friends.
• Anya smirks confidently as she comes up with a name for her plan to invite Damian to her house; since she sees it as being sort of the reverse of Twilight's Plan B, which she thinks is about getting invited over to Damian's house, she'll call it... the B Plan.
• When Damian angrily denies being worried about someone else taking Anya, he actually bats away the "Shiver" sound effect bubble he gave off just before.
• When Damian's latest round of insults starts making Anya cry, their classmates start talking about how Damian's the stronger one. Anya doesn't take it well:
  Anya: (bawling) BUT I'M SUPPOSED TO BE THE STRONG ONE! I ONLY WANTED TO CONQUER THE WORLD!
  • Hilariously, she also finally got Damian to call her an "uggo", just in the completely wrong situation.
• Finally, Anya and Damian argue so much that the narration says:
  And so they were both late to class like good friends.

Mission 77:

• One of the teachers caught up in the hijacking is apparently having nightmares from PTSD, and is sent to Loid Forger for therapy. Loid quickly figures out that the teacher's nerves aren't from the hijacking, but from being a total Henpecked Husband, whose Awful Wedded Life has made him terrified of his wife.
  Loid: (Thinking) Authentic marriages sure seem... difficult.
• Loid, in his capacity as a psychiatrist, advises the husband that he should do what he can to observe his wife's mood more. Listen to what she says, watch her expressions, and measure her heartbeat and respiratory rate. Nightfall, listening nearby, dryly notes that normal people can't do that without special equipment.

Mission 78:

• The "kindly agent" who adopted the dog that attacked Loid near the end of the Doggie Crisis arc and got thrown into a dumpster? That agent turns out to be Ms. Sylvia Sherwood herself, who named him Aaron.
• Sylvia, the personification of professionalism at work, is shown to be utterly unable to keep her room tidy.
• Bond doesn't remember Aaron despite them being former Project Apple test subjects, resulting in Aaron lashing out at him in anger.
• Sylvia admits the reason she named her dog Aaron was because it was the first name listed in a book, which leaves both Anya and Loid staring at her blankly while Aaron looks back in shock.
• In a bid to humor Anya who wanted to give the dogs a chance to play, Sylvia proposes a competition between Bond and Aaron. Loid is initially puzzled... until Sylvia tells him that she'll take back the extra mission if Bond wins, which he promptly agrees to.
• Bond beats Aaron in the hide-and-seek part of the competition... because Sylvia had dried pasta stuck in her clothes, and he managed to sniff it out.
• During the agility portion of the competition, Bond predicts that a gust of wind will change the direction of the frisbee, and while Aaron chases after it, Bond just sits there waiting for it to come to him. When the wind blows the frisbee towards him, Bond jumps up to snatch it, only for him to miss the catch and get smacked in the face. The contest is declared a tie since neither dog caught the frisbee, and got a point each on the other events.

Short Mission 10:

• As Damian's group watches the news about the upcoming launch, he says only that he hopes the ship doesn't blow up.
• Damian gets tsundere over Anya and Ewen bonding over space exploration (to a knowing smirk from Becky), and says that when he's a politician he'll make it so people can make trips to the moon whenever they want. Becky points out they're not listening.

Mission 79:

• Yor eats out with her coworkers after overtime at City Hall, and starts knocking back the drinks. When her coworkers start griping about their significant others, she interprets their griping to mean dating and marriage turn everyone into assassins, and thinks she has to come up with something to fit in:
  Yor: (drunk) Oh! Shometimes I want to kill Roid too! I am full of murdery thoughtsh!
  • Before that, as her coworkers realize the situation:
    Sharon: I never thought I'd see this day: Yor drunk.
    Yor: You're drunk too? Sho am I!
• As it turns out, Yor doesn't have anything to complain about with Loid. The closest she can get to a gripe is how she likes sweeter omelets but Loid doesn't make them that way to control Anya's sugar intake (although she isn't actually bothered by it). Her coworkers have to end up telling her she doesn't have to make up stuff about her personal life just to fit in.
  • After downing another drink, Yor has a prolonged Imagine Spot where she asks the Shopkeeper for permission to kill Loid in order to preserve her marriage (being drunk, she doesn't see the contradiction), then goes full Thorn Princess, a table knife in hand, as she has a showdown with Loid over omelet.
    Loid: Yor. I would consider murdering me over omelet to be abnormal behavior.
    Yor: (still drunk) Ish not, Roid. Ash a normal person, I need to murder you sho that nobody dischovers I'm really a killer. (?)
  • Right after the end of said Imagine Spot with Anya crying that she'll eat sweet omelets if her parents will stop fighting, a waiter tells Yor she can't leave the restaurant with their cutlery.
• Yor overloads at the thought of a welcome home kiss as Loid welcomes her back from her night out (represented by her "racing heart meter" from earlier in the series returning and bursting), but he catches her before she collapses to the floor. Then she starts overloading again (represented by a second racing heart meter) at the thought he's going to kiss her, and backflips out of his arms, crashing into the floor to avoid inadvertently hurting him. Loid is left freaked out and demanding to know what she drank to put her in such a state while Yor yells apologies about how abnormal she is.
• Meanwhile, as crashing and banging noises continue to echo through the house, a sleepy Anya remarks that her papa and mama always get so noisy when they "kissy kiss."

Mission 80:

• After Becky arrives to pick up Anya for their play date, she soon gets distracted by talking to Loid, only for Martha to place a hand over her mouth mid-sentence and politely nudge them to leave. Even with the smile she puts on for Loid, you can just feel the Disapproving Look.
• As the still somewhat-drunk Yor continues to obsess over finding a "gripe" with Loid to make herself seem more normal, Yuri arrives to complicate matters further. Loid at first keeps his annoyance with the man to himself, telling Yuri to "shut up" in his thoughts, but in a rare case of him losing patience he gets pushed to where he tells him to "shut up" out loud, though Yuri ignores it.
  • Yuri's happening to time his arrival just as Yor is stalling for time by telling Loid, "I'm not satisfied with our life together!"
    Loid: (thinking) He literally could not have come at a worse time.
• Yor ends up trailing Loid to the hospital hoping to find a gripe with him, only to find he really did just go to the hospital. When her mind is just about to think about making a gripe out of it, Yor finally sobers up and realizes just how silly she's being when it should be a good thing she doesn't have any gripes to complain about.
• The last panel has a bunch of SSS lined up in full uniform as they get their orders. It's filled with stony-eyed tough fascist-ey types including one guy with enough rugged scars that he should have to share them with the group, and then there's Yuri.
• Yuri's scarred superior becomes utterly hilarious. Throughout this chapter and the next, he tries to blend in despite looking like a typical Russian villain out of an 80s or 90s action movie. The facial scar, his hard and square chin, and his shifty eyes scream 'I'm a villain!' but no one seems put off by him.

Mission 81:

• Following up from last chapter, where Yuri's SSS friends look like comical villains, this chapter features them going undercover... which is something apparently only Yuri has done before. Barring Yuri, they all look like silly tourists or conspicuous thugs, which makes sense, as according to the sole female in the group, this 'cloak and dagger' activity isn't something they work with much. There's something comical about how all of them except Yuri stick out in a crowd for looking just slightly off compared to everyone else around them.

Mission 82:

• Satisfied with tricking two SSS agents while in his Yuri disguise, Loid/Twilight lets out a small "Heh." with a comically stoic expression. Then shortly after, he accidentally comes face-to-face with the real Yuri.

Mission 84:

• While the chapter is mostly serious, Fiona still provides a moment of levity when, during her inner monologue about Twilight's ideals and the mission at hand, regains determination to see everything through... by, naturally, an Imagine Spot where Yor comforts a grieving Loid about her "death".

Volume 13

Mission 85:

• The badly-hurt Yuri is awoken by his SSS colleague Chloe, yet in his delirious state, he mistakes her for Yor and immediately moves to embrace her. Chloe is not amused and hits him on the head, with the other guy present warning that he's so injured, that might actually kill him.

Mission 86:

• What starts as an intense sequence with Nightfall preparing to kill Wheeler turns funny as her broken leg means she has to literally hop over to him on her good leg. And she makes it look easy!
• Her initial reaction to Twilight waking up is to almost blurt out "I love you!" She then panics over how much Twilight might have overheard of her speech to Wheeler, even briefly thinking she'll have to kill him to keep her secret.
  • Upon finding that he in fact missed everything, her thoughts take a turn for the cutesy:
    Nightfall: (thinking) Yes, Twilight, you've lost your edge. Now you're my little toy knife with a retractable blade. Sproing! Sproing! (heart)
• At first it looks like Twilight has just been caught red-handed by the scarred burly SSS agent... only it's revealed to be a fellow agent wearing a disguise, who freaks out and warns Twilight about the actual SSS agents swarming the surface and to get out quickly.
• Being slung over Twilight's shoulder leads to Nightfall's thoughts racing, including her somehow thinking he is carrying her like a bride.
• Tough as she may be, Nightfall is still thoroughly miserable from her injuries once her adrenaline wears off, glowering on the drive back, yet also arguing she should accompany Twilight home. Everyone points out to her she needs to go to the hospital.
• While it's overall heartwarming, there is some comedy in how Loid is still so unfamiliar with the relaxation/relief his fake family gives him, that he is utterly confounded as to why his strength leaves him upon seeing Yor's smiling face and welcome home.
  • And his attempt to mentally talk himself out of it when coupled with Yor's adorably-gorgeous welcoming expression:
    Loid: (thinking) Stay alert! Who knows what unfathomable hatred seethes behind that smile!
• Loid is already collapsed on his knees when he gets home and reunites with Yor... but when he apologizes to her and the latter reveals to him the reason behind the whole gripe situation, the poor man outright hits the ground. Laying there with the most comical exhausted expression, he has a short internal "I just can't" breakdown before pulling himself back together.
• Once Yuri visits, Loid suddenly stands upright like nothing's happened (complete with a 'sproing' sound effect). Yuri then notices Loid's right arm twitching and even checks it himself - but despite being a second away from realizing Loid is Twilight (thinking back to their fight, and how Twilight suspiciously didn't finish him off), he brushes the thought off. The reason? A combination of there being no wound there, and the thought that Twilight is too good to need to pretend to be Loid in order to be close enough to Yuri to copy him. In short, Twilight's reputation saved him at the literal last second.
  • Yuri's excuse for his injuries? He made a bunch of mistakes on a report, so his supervisor body-slammed him. Loid is inwardly disbelieving that that's what he went with.
  • Then when Yor hurries him out so that Loid can rest, Yuri of course protests, but inwardly notes that he probably should go, since he actually hasn't filed his report yet.
• The chapter ends with Loid, having taken a shower, smelling smoke and fearing Yuri might have caught on after all... but luckily(?), it's just Yor accidentally burning one of his shirts (trying to iron it). Loid promptly faints again.
  Loid: (inner thoughts) Yeah. This might be hopeless.

Mission 87:

• Gerald Gorey returns, and he's still head over heels for Fiona, expressing disappointment when he is sent off to see Loid about her medical files.
• The cover story for Fiona's injuries? She somehow fell down three flights of stairs - from fourth floor to first floor - all in a row. Gorey can only remark on how clumsy she must be.
• Sylvia/Handler visiting Fiona/Nightfall at the hospital:
  • It starts off with Fiona asking what her boss is doing here, and Sylvia rants that it's because since she and Loid are out of commission for a while, she has to fill in for them... then calmly adds that she's always wanted to wear a nurse uniform as well.
  • After congratulating Fiona for apprehending Wheeler in spite of the dangers, Sylvia then leaves imploring her not to push herself... and slyly reveals that she knows about her unhealthy crush on Loid. Fiona promptly throws an internal tantrum as Sylvia casually strolls off:
    Sylvia (internally) So cute...
• After it's pointed out Fiona's injuries are not as bad as expected, she wonders if she has the crazy training in the mountains she retreated to at the end of the Tennis Arc to thank for it.
• Anya remarks that Yor's breakfasts have improved, if only a tiny bit, and Yor replies she got up at 5 to do battle with a recipe book. This somehow left her looking more beat up than Loid, and the sink full of all manner of tools and objects that shouldn't have anything to do with breakfast.
• When Anya's speaking about her trip to the zoo and her new lion doll, a jealous Bond quickly tries to impress Anya by making himself lion-like, via fluffing out his fur. Anya's all for it, asking if he can also be a elephant and a giraffe too. Bond's attempt for the former (trying to extend his nose) only results in dripping snot, while Yor's idea for the latter is to get his fur wet in only the neck/leg areas... which results in Bond looking utterly ridiculous; Anya says he looks more like an alpaca.
• Once Franky comes over, a newly-brushed-and-shiny-haired Anya immediately says that they should do the same thing to him. Yor says that if they did that, no one would even recognize him; Franky is not amused by her comment, nor Anya/Bond's attempts to hold him in place.
  • Meanwhile, Loid opens his bedroom door and hears all the commotion... then with an utterly done-with-this expression, immediately closes the door.

Mission 88:

• As a means of 'paying his debt' toward Anya - helping comfort him during the bus-jacking incident, giving him her handkerchief - Damian bought some very rare, expensive tea cakes to give to her. However, he could never live down being seen handing them off to her in front of others, so he plans to give them to her alone and "then I'll never have to deal with her weird behavior again!" Needless to say, it's nowhere near that easy.
  • His first attempt is to simply hand them over in the morning before class, only for Becky and Emile/Ewen to show up to their respective friends. During this, Anya hears his thoughts about the cake and excitedly asks if he has something for her, which doesn't help in the slightest.
  • Because of the above, Anya thinks to ask Becky if she can help get her some alone time with Damian, which has Becky swooning over her perceived "audaciousness". However, Anya's first note runs into her recurring legibility problem, and she ultimately has to make the second note's letters really big just to make it readable.
    Becky: That running gag's getting a little old, Anya.
    • Even with the better writing and spelling, (discounting the fact Anya spells 'meet' as 'meat') Anya's second note has bits of Anya's blood on it and very jagged letters, which causes Ewen and Emile to think Anya is challenging Damian to an old-fashioned honor duel to the death after Damian called her a beggar earlier. It's sweet to see how they try to back Damian up to either fight alongside or avenge him, but everyone thinks their reactions are ridiculous all the same.
  • Damian and Anya meet alone, while Becky and Emile/Ewen are watching from a distance, all with entirely different perceptions of what's going on. Things don't go well right off the bat, even before Henderson comes across the scene.
    Damian: What's that Blackbell girl doing here!?
    Anya: You brought all your flunkies with you!
    (the two continue to bicker, even as Becky and Emile/Ewen are shocked that they were noticed)
• Damian's Crush Filter on Anya continues, making her seem far cuter than she appears to the audience.

Mission 89:

• The beginning has a tired Yuri cross the street, not notice an incoming truck and get hit by it, then quietly grouse about how it hurts. His colleague's comment indicates that this is a regular occurrence.
  SSS Lieutenant: How many times do I have to tell you, Yuri? Stop getting hit by trucks.
• Yuri talks about his accomplishments without a hint of self-awareness as to how arrogant he sounds:
  Yuri: I skipped grades all the way to college. I got hired at the Foreign Ministry with ease. I immediately distinguished myself here at the SSS. I'm the elite of the elite.
  SSS Lieutenant: That stuff reflects on you better when other people say it.
• Both men get a tip about a criminal with a wound on his right arm, who could possibly be Twilight due to Yuri's injury to him. Said guy is short and fat, and very much devoid of any actual threat level - in fact, he was arrested for systematically wiping snot on cafeteria food displays, which even earns a flat reaction from the agents - so they immediately know he's not Twilight. Yuri even questions Chloe for being able to consider that the guy could be Twilight.
  SSS Lieutenant: If that's the guy who posed as Yuri and Wheeler, then he clearly knows magic. And we can't beat a wizard.
• While on-route to a hideout, Yuri instinctively senses Yor's presence simply by her scent and hides himself from view. Chloe is quite disturbed at how he could possibly pick up on that.
  Chloe: You could smell her at that distance, inside a car!? That's the creepiest thing I've ever heard!
  • What makes it all the more mind-boggling is that according to the Assassin Leader in the Cruise Arc, Yor doesn't have a scent, meaning that when it comes to her, Yuri's got a better sense of smell than a guy whose thing is The Nose Knows.
• While fed-up with Yuri's attitude after he almost gets himself killed trying to raid a nest of criminals single-handed, Chloe slaps him across the face, twice, and he somehow feels it right through his preternatural toughness. Even Chloe seems surprised by that one.
• Chloe states to Yuri that he needs to do better at taking care of himself, in order to assure his sister. Yuri's train-of-thought ultimately goes to a flashback of young Yor saying that in order to not get beat up (by bee stings and boar charges), she just needs to get faster.
  Yuri: That's it! What I lack is evasive speed and blocking skills! I've been using my resilience as a crutch and neglecting those areas completely!
  Chloe: Uh... sure, you're not wrong about that, but I meant...
• At the end, Yor visits Yuri, wanting to apologize for kicking him out before. Yuri is initially exhilarated to taste her gift food, until he learns Loid made it, and his jealousy makes him wonder if he can't have Loid arrested for non-spy reasons. He briefly hesitates, teetering on the edge of the realization that Loid makes Yor happy and if he got his wish it would make Yor sad and heartbroken... then he immediately decides that it wouldn't make her sad.
  • Immediately after, he asks Yor if she hates Loid because of her "I'm not satisfied by our relationship" line, and she says that was a misunderstanding.
    Yuri: So you love him?
    Yor: Huh!? Uh, err... well, I uhh...
    Yuri: So you don't, which means you hate him.

Mission 90:

• Yor and Anya help an old man who is lost in the park find his way home, and on their adventure, Anya keeps misinterpreting his thoughts/words - particularly that he'll "give us his fortune", which Yor says they won't accept, and even the old man privately says that isn't what he meant - which Yor keeps taking literally as she answers. As they walk though their neighborhood, they accidentally enter a mafia safehouse and even climb the radio tower of a skyscraper, only to find that the old man just moved into the apartment next to the Forgers', and Loid was helping the old man's wife move their things.
  • The old man gives his wife some flowers as an apology for wandering away, and she considers forgiving him as they kiss. Anya pouts her lips and says "kissy kissy," Loid looks at them awkwardly, and Yor nervously asks if they can go home.

Mission 91:

• The other City Hall employees can't believe that Yor, of all people, is friends with Melinda Desmond. Yet when Melinda shows up to the veterans event the City Hall workers are setting up, and she and Yor warmly greet each other, they're stunned by the fact that she was telling the truth.
  • Then after Melinda leaves to make a speech, the other employees say that they couldn't believe Yor was friends with Melinda, because Yor is not "posh" enough to be friends with someone like her. When Yor questions if she hasn't been speaking properly at such events, they immediately make plans to teach her how to speak like a rich person over drinks after the event. Dominic can only wonder when these four have become so friendly with each other.
  • At the end, once she's back home and has been taught to "talk posh" by her work friends, Yor surprises Loid and Anya with a "Heartiest salutations, dearies!"
• Yor continues her streak of charming other women by demonstrating her Charles Atlas Superpowers, with Millie happily telling Yor that she misjudged her, except her phrasing is a bit... much.
  Millie: You know, I've always thought of you as a weird, clueless robot. But now I see you're more like a kindly gorilla!
  Sharon: Hey!
  Yor: (more confused than anything) No, I'm a human being?

Mission 92:

• Loid briefly wonders if Daybreak was a master spy out to undermine Operation Strix, before squelching the thought. Seems he's still having trouble trying to rationalize Daybreak.
• Loid muses that if they worked on Anya's Classical Language skills, she might get a Stella Star. Then Anya walks in and sneezes out a long line of snot:
  Anya: Look, Papa, look! I just blew the longest string of snot in the history of the unicycleverse! Maybe I can earn a Stella Star for being the Eden Academy master of snot! Streeetch... Streeetch... It's a snot anaconda... It's a snotaconda! (runs off) Mama, wake up! Come see my snotaconda! No, it's a booger constrictor!
  Loid: (thinking, a grim expression on his face) Let this be a lesson, Twilight. Do not dare to dream. That child is not earning any Stella Stars. Stay in the realm of reality!
• Sigmund tutors Anya in Classical Language for several days in the hopes that since that's her strongest subject, she won't get a Tonitrus Bolt for failing all her exams. On the day before the exams, Anya dresses herself like a gritty martial artist (complete with beard stubble) as a way to showcase how hard she's been training. The next day when she goes to school, Henderson asks why she has a beard, and Anya responds that she drew it with permanent marker and couldn't wash it off; Henderson decides to ignore it and proctors the exams.

Volume 14

Mission 93:

• Anya gets a shocked face that takes up nearly half a page when she realizes she was second in her grade on Classical Language, then starts running around in excitement. As she's celebrating getting a Stella Star it's then revealed she was below the cutoff mark for math, earning her a Tonitrus Bolt. She then gets a virtually identical shocked face and starts running around again as she struggles to process her conflicting feelings.
  • When Loid hears Anya managed to get both a Stella and a Tonitrus, his initial expression looks like a startled fish, coincidentally resembling Anya's face when she first learned she got a Tonitrus.
    Anya: Papa, your face is all weird.
  • At the end, Anya's decided to adopt Demetrius's Thousand-Yard Stare until she becomes a "super genius". When Loid quizzes her on how exactly she expects that to work, she simply repeats the "I don't understand" thoughts she read from Demetrius, causing him to let out a massive sigh, with an expression that looks like he's Giving Up the Ghost.
• A small panel reveals Yor pretty much passed out drunk from wine after celebrating Anya's newest Stella.
• Upon reading Demetrius's mind, Anya is shocked that he thinks so little at any given time, and ponders that "all of [Damian]'s relatives are such weirdoes" while remembering back to Melinda's conflicted thoughts.

Mission 94:

• Yor's efforts at skiing: she has no idea how to stop or steer or balance, but she compensates by bounding off of trees with her inhuman agility. Which, of course, prompts more of her flimsy cover stories:
  Yor: It's not what you think, Loid! There was a gymnastics teacher in my neighborhood when I was little. She taught me how to...oh no! (falls)
• The inhabitants of the lodge the Forgers are staying at have punny names galore. A college senior named "Needa Jobsoon", a tabloid writer named "Hack Scriver", the owner is "Rodger Hostman", etc. (And yes, they're punny in the original Japanese as well.)
• Yor needs to cool down from the mere thought of sleeping in the same room as Loid, and proceeds to run out into the blizzard outside. She later refers to it as enjoying "the breeze", while the incredulous guest she tells this to says she can't have been out there as she would have died (not knowing this is semi-superhuman Yor he's talking about).
• The tabloid writer tries to scare Anya with a story of "The Red Snowman", a monster that emerges during blizzards to murder people, especially "noisy kids". Anya is thrilled and wants to go look for it. Meanwhile, Yor calmly thinks that if the snowman does come after Anya, she'll just kill him.
• Yor half-panickly assuring Loid that she didn't try to kill a guest at the lodge. Probably.
• The killer turns out to be the hotel owner, who wants to kill the college students because they are noisy and always leave their room a complete mess.
  • After it looks like the chapter is setting up a tense Ten Little Murder Victims type story arc, Anya easily figures out the murderer's identity thanks to her mind reading and Bond predicts when he'll strike next, allowing Anya to "subtly" influence Loid to investigate.
    Anya: Papa, let's go explore around the kitchen's back door at eleven tonight.
    Loid: Why such a weirdly specific request?
    • And then it actually works, with the actual scene of Loid apprehending the killer being over within a single page.
  • A moment that's only appreciable in hindsight: halfway through Loid's explanation, one of the guests panics and thinks that the killer "flew in from the sky" and "cut the phone lines with telekinesis!" Even as another guest deadpans that he doesn't think that's plausible, the hotel owner (ie the killer) says a bewildered "Okay...", clearly thinking that even that's a bit much and/or Sure, Let's Go with That.
• By the end, Anya cheers that it was like a real-life detective story and this made a great trip, while her family are more concerned that she could've been hurt, and tell her to stay away from dangerous people.
  Anya: (internally) But my mama and papa are dangerous people...

Mission 95:

• Damian claims to not care about the party competitions. Smash cut to him angrily and correctly rattling off the answer to the first trivia question (having been first in line) before yelling at his classmates not to mess this up. And then there's Anya, tenth in line, who managed to mangle Headmaster Benedict Ivan Goodfellow's name into Benjerpoop Peeface. Cue Damian shouting at her to take it seriously (she was).
  • Another event has the students challenged to identify which of two items is of finer quality. The first challenge is a pair of suits, the second two different blends of tea, the third...a pair of geometry set squares.
    It's just a ruler! How fine could it be!?
• We get introduced to more rich students with equally-punny names, such as Narcis from the Hubrisse Business Group or Brayzen Commercial Industries.
• The End-of Class Gala Dance is treated by a number of the wealthy heirs and heiresses as a political battleground just over dance pairs, which is exactly why none of the parents or guardians are allowed to attend; it would only get more cutthroat.
  • Keep in mind, they're all six or seven years old at best, making the whole thing even more absurd.
• Damian expresses his displeasure at Arnold Crowley striking up a conversation with Anya by throwing his handkerchief at Crowley's head - with the fabric balled up (or folded beforehand) to resemble a rose. At the same time, this only gives Becky more fuel to tease him regarding Anya.
• In a Call-Back to Mission 92, Twilight internally remarks that there's no way the Desmond family would approve of a girl who plays with her snot as a relationship prospect for their scion. This enrages Anya into game-face mode to win her dance with Damian.

Mission 96:

• Ewen and Emile hold a contest to see which girl has the right to dance with their Lord Damian. Anya barely manages to pass the physical part with some help from Loid, and through brute force on the agility maze. Though that latter part is as much a liability as an asset, as Anya's face gets twisted into some hilarious expressions when she gets stuck.
  • The first task is to stand on one leg and clap, and upon seeing the crowd of girls doing this, Henderson is asked by another teacher just what is going on.
    Henderson: To be perfectly honest, I have no idea. [Despite that], I find their efforts most elegant!
• The final task? A trivia game about Damian, which freaks Twilight out thinking there's no way he can help Anya now. Naturally, she uses her mind reading abilities to get an upper hand on the other girls, and to keep her telepathy a secret, Anya makes up a ridiculous sounding name of another student, to which she's reprimanded because no one is named that.
• After Anya wins the contest, Ewen and Emile demand that the contest be done again since Anya isn't worthy to dance with Damian, but Becky rightfully calls them out for coming up with this idea in the first place. Damian says that Anya won fair and square though - as far as he knows - and asks her to the dance floor, where they become bright red upon holding hands. As they dance Anya steps on Damian's foot, and when he reprimands her, she apologizes, which he refuses. She responds with "shut up and dance", but he keeps bickering until it's interrupted by Henderson saying that they won't become Imperial Scholars that way, which irks his dance partner, Martha.
• Once Damian and Anya start dancing to the music, he sarcastically asks if she can read his mind, which Anya affirms with complete sincerity. After a Beat of surprise, Damian flatly tells her that she watches too many cartoons and calls her a "dummy", which causes them to continue bickering as they dance.

Short Mission 12:

• Anya mistaking Becky's euphemism for impressing Damian as wanting to kill him, complete with "push him over the edge" making Anya imagine pushing him over a cliff edge, and when Anya picks out her dress, she swears she will use this dress to "murder him dead," while Becky reminds her they will not kill Damian. After Anya reveals how expensive the dress is, Loid says they'll just return it and rent one, thinking that Sylvia will kill him for going over budget again, and after Anya says that the dress can't be returned, she thinks that apparently buying dresses leads to murder.
  • And the reason Anya picks out the dress? "It looks a little like the one Mama wears to murder people!"
• Loid specifically asked Anya to pick out a dress that was already made so that it will be cheaper than having her fitted for the occasion, and so that Sylvia won't scold him for going overbudget again. However the dress she picked out still comes to 5,000 Dalc (~$10,000 U.S./~¥1.5 million) causing Loid to fall to his knees in shock.
• As Anya and Loid practice dancing, she steps on Bond's tail, and Yor drops a drink on him, soaking him and revealing his skinny body.

OPs/EDs

Second ED

• Yor using her superhuman knife skills to dice the meat.
• Anya's Color Failure when Loid catches her nomming the cake.

Meta

• With the release of Mission 23 came the series' first popularity poll. But rather than rate the characters, fans rated their favorite Anya expression, choosing from 56 total. (The winner was Anya's original smugface from Mission 8, which was adapted into episode 6 of the anime.)
• At the end of Mission 18, Tatsuya made a couple of joking diagrams◊ to explain how Yor creates her unique hairstyle, both the initial explanation (she bends and angles it) and the altered explanation (she crosses over and flips it). Franky pops in to exclaim that both are incredibly impractical and outright questions why the author was talking about it at all.
• This piece of fanart features Anya and Bond being approached by Shou Tucker. They're having none of it, and neither is Yor.

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