Ura Baito: Toubou Kinshi - Ch. 226 - "After-Work" ①

[MangaDex]

 

[BreadBunny]

Ah fuck alright. Nagomi's getting her closure while Yume's getting hers wrenched back open.

The ability to smell danger as a subset of straight up omniscience huh.

 

[MsW0lf]

Nagomi’s mother actually being the only sensible person in this entire thing definitely parses. Though it makes me wonder why she wanted a clone and not just an ordinary baby.

 

[farranpoison]

Nagomi’s mother actually being the only sensible person in this entire thing definitely parses. Though it makes me wonder why she wanted a clone and not just an ordinary baby.

Wasn't it said that originally the clone baby was intended to be a way for the mother to extend her lifespan by transferring consciousness? But she decided against it later for reasons that'll probably be elaborated on later.

 

[MsW0lf]

Wasn't it said that originally the clone baby was intended to be a way for the mother to extend her lifespan by transferring consciousness? But she decided against it later for reasons that'll probably be elaborated on later.

That’s what I meant. Although just changing her mind definitely fits her character! 😅

 

[ProHajikelist]

YIN! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

It's also touching that Nagomi's parents loved her, I was worried about the mom for a while there.

 

[cybeast21]

So her sense of smell was actually small part of omniscient, didn't expect that tbh

 

[Karikko]

Oh no, the beginning of the end

 

[3141592653589]

What the hell sort of scientist kills both of a kid's parents to see if you can bring back their superpowers through trauma?

That is terrible experimental design. You should kill one parent and leave the other one alive to serve as a control.

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Kek, I kinda recalled this laplace demon plot was pretty much everywhere during the 00' maybe there werent much if we do a real checking now but I feel like shit everywhere or is it still the stuff nowadays?

 

[zawarudo]

So basically Daidai is the anti-Yume: by having an absolutely empty cranium and never attempting to "understand anything" (the opposite of omniscience), she becomes impervious to any and all danger especially gray-related ones without having to even make an effort to avoid them. There is a fascinating implication here. Since Yume no longer has omniscience, she cannot just "know" that a gray job will have some Lovecraftian being messing around, so she readily accepts the jobs. But once on-site, the remnants of her power activates and she can perceive them faintly, narrowly avoiding the full brunt of the gray's influence each time and surviving. What this means IMO is that a gray's influence on you is mainly related to the act of observing it and understanding what it is.

Not observing it/be outside of its immediate area of influence - you're basically immune
Observing it but not giving a shit because you don't understand it and hence don't know that it's dangerous - still immune and can even interact with them freely (Daidai is here)
Recognizing signs that it is there, and your instincts tell you it's deadly - the gray can kind of affect you but you can still take measures to evade it (Yume is here)
Fully observing it, realizing what it is and what it can do, which breaks your mind - you are dead, or at least go insane (most of the victims in this manga are here)

 

[friendly]

Whew. So Nagomi's sort of always been on the grey...

 

[SMAXZO]

So.. we're approaching the endgame..

 

[zawarudo]

Whew. So Nagomi's sort of always been on the grey...

Yeah, and Yume's power is itself arguably a gray phenomenon. Daidai is perhaps more appropriately called an anti-gray. Honestly this manga reminds me of Soil and its concept of foreign bodies.

 

[nutjob]

@Nihilo7
Typo on page 16
hestitated > hesitated

 

[Jaon]

That’s what I meant. Although just changing her mind definitely fits her character! 😅

I think it's implied that while the clone was originally made to extend the mother's life by transferring her consciousness to it, she gave that up and died from the disease normally because she put her baby who would not otherwise be born healthy (due to being born from a mother with said disease) into the clone so that she (Nagomi) would live on in that healthy body.

 

[Fugutron]

What the hell sort of scientist kills both of a kid's parents to see if you can bring back their superpowers through trauma?

That is terrible experimental design. You should kill one parent and leave the other one alive to serve as a control.

The same dumbshits that created Doomsday : Let's kill and clone this baby over and over again to see what superpowers it will develop!

 

[kharasiri]

Honestly this manga reminds me of Soil and its concept of foreign bodies.

Soil is my favorite thriller in any media full stop and I will have to say that weirdly enough, a lot of Ura Baito's gray activity would not fall into the foreign bodies category. A lot of the gray I remember actually seemed to be following and upholding some kind of law, code, or order which would be the complete antithesis of Soil's foreign bodies from the path to the curse-breaking temple, the last Kuroiwa job, and hell even that god-like guy who resets things to right wrongs in the timeline (who we found out later has been MIA for a while). The only one I can remember that I can 100% say fits the bill is the quantum residue of that actor that kills anyone who tries to observe it.

 

[capricieux]

Get fucked Q. I hope their theory of why Yume's power diminished is dead wrong and will bite them in the ass.