Well now it's finally heating up. Even with all the plot conveniences and annoyances about the characters, so much is going on in a single chapter it's actually pretty exciting
Why'd he go there? Because he's the joke. There's a lot of stupid decisions he can make, and he keeps making them. The only smart thing he did here was check the ghosts at the landlord's apartment, which told him everything he needed to know.
Absolutely nobody would believe a child saying that. It would be immediately and extremely obvious what was going on because the other parent was there.
Thanks for the scanlations! They're very clean. A question about the puns though: you've done great in making them match up, but are you replacing the drawings to match the puns or did the artist redo them?
So if we exclude real world current events, are joke pages making fun of things or ideas in the chapter also not okay?
But then I guess also, someone can always come in and call it political for being a discussion of the chapter content not relating to translations...