Arakure Ojousama wa Monmon Shiteiru - Vol. 9 Ch. 59 - Because Nothing Is Absolute, We Can Be Saved

[Rafalga]

Mom broke the projection limiter at the end there. God damn. How hard the scumbag dad fucked their psyche up?

 

[HawkGoggles]

Some of you all need to remember that this story did not start out with pure intentions that EVERYONE is aware of. The grandma has literal footage of the things Tsubaki did. To be fair, Grandma is the only one who's fully out of pocket with expulsion criteria but everyone else being a little apprehensive about the relationship makes sense from what they know. And other than the Grandma everyone gets past it while still calling out the BS that got them here in the first place.

 

[Floriano]

Wow can you imagine going through all of high school alone without a gf?

Lmao yeah, imagine that...

 

[Floriano]

Some of you all need to remember that this story did not start out with pure intentions that EVERYONE is aware of. The grandma has literal footage of the things Tsubaki did. To be fair Grandma is the only one who's fully out of pocket with expulsion criteria but everyone else being a little apprehensive about the relationship makes sense from what they know. An other than the Grandma everyone gets past it while still calling out the BS that got there here in the first place.

Really, really good point. What my girl was doing was harassment, and how she got with it... it counts as the sexual kind so I can see why the grandma is worried, if shge actually saw any of the things that happened in the previous chapter. While it is good that my man did give a positive spin to it, she got seriously intense.

 

[Menhir]

Does that matter? His mother doesn't know about any of that. I'm talking exclusively about how his mother behaved.

I mean, the stuff from the cameras wasn't just "bits and pieces" that's putting it really mildly. The footage showed her literally assaulting him on multiple occasions, and this was not something minor; the school administration even had expulsion on the table as a result. She knew all of this.
Sure, she's obviously soured by her own husband but seeing your son hanging around with a suspended (and nearly expelled) student, only to 'coincidentally' lose the top spot, you bet she'd be mad.

I'd even go as far as to say she was rather fair, since she didn't place the blame solely on her, but on both of them. She could have easily put the entire weight on the "aggressor" party, but she also considered how her son allowed himself to get to this point (not on a victim-blaming sorta thing, but on the 'why the fuck didn't you say anything?!' side)

Luckily the power of love and all that shit fixed it up

 

[Septazia]

Seeing Takashi have his dream where he feared he didnt' get with her and checked on his phone to make sure, the way his smile softened his face and how he is much more secure about saying those things....that's the best thing about this chapter and worth all the pain.

Is funny, in a lot of Romcoms when you get a relationship to a good spot, they like to throw in a wrench like this that puts a stop to the relationship while they deal with the problem, it never feels credible, people are not robots.

 

[Edo4169]

That last page really feels like axe-kun doing. I'm glad this manga is still ongoing, because it's starting to feel good. At first, it's just like a couple of banter, but this arc is great. The sadness, thrill, and every feeling are straight to the kokoro.

 

[rudezki]

Damn. I want to scream and cry.

 

[Silfir]

Reminder that

Some of you all need to remember that this story did not start out with pure intentions that EVERYONE is aware of. The grandma has literal footage of the things Tsubaki did. To be fair, Grandma is the only one who's fully out of pocket with expulsion criteria but everyone else being a little apprehensive about the relationship makes sense from what they know. And other than the Grandma everyone gets past it while still calling out the BS that got them here in the first place.

We're not even sure what the grandma's thinking is at this point. Tadashi issued his "I will tutor your granddaughter to the top of the exam leaderboard" pledge before she really had a chance to make up her mind. No way she wouldn't take full advantage of that energy.

Also, the more I think about it, the more sense it makes, especially now that we know Tadashi's mother was actually invited to the school personally and given the full picture. Legally speaking, it would be simply unthinkable for the principal of a school to make a decision in favor of Tsubaki without even consulting Tadashi's legal guardian. Tadashi may be the injured party, but he is also a minor. This is a matter serious enough that the adults have to settle it.

If I'm right about this, the actual battle doesn't take place in the exams. It already did, in this chapter. Tadashi's mother had to be won over. If she tells the principal she doesn't mind Tsubaki not being expelled, or even speaks out against it, the principal now has the necessary cover to grant clemency to her granddaughter free from suspicions of nepotism.

 

[KingRagnarok]

How dare mom be worried cause her son is dating the girl who tried to pin him with sexual assault and has him expelled while probably fucking up his life too?

What a bad mom she is!!!

 

[HawkGoggles]

Reminder that

We're not even sure what the grandma's thinking is at this point. Tadashi issued his "I will tutor your granddaughter to the top of the exam leaderboard" pledge before she really had a chance to make up her mind. No way she wouldn't take full advantage of that energy.

Also, the more I think about it, the more sense it makes, especially now that we know Tadashi's mother was actually invited to the school personally and given the full picture. Legally speaking, it would be simply unthinkable for the principal of a school to make a decision in favor of Tsubaki without even consulting Tadashi's legal guardian. Tadashi may be the injured party, but he is also a minor. This is a matter serious enough that the adults have to settle it.

If I'm right about this, the actual battle doesn't take place in the exams. It already did, in this chapter. Tadashi's mother had to be won over. If she tells the principal she doesn't mind Tsubaki not being expelled, or even speaks out against it, the principal now has the necessary cover to grant clemency to her granddaughter free from suspicions of nepotism.

My problem with this is that even without the expulsion criteria, the Grandma would still have to call Tadashi's mom in. I also thought that maybe this is all so weird scheme from the Grandma but it doesn't make sense to put this unneeded stress on them or test their relationship in the first place. Do what happened in this chapter and just have a honest discussion with all the parents. This whole expulsion bit is for grandma to test their relationship so see can see the growth her camera's missed out on. And while from a narrative standpoint that makes sense from a character standpoint its a bit selfish. But that's how you get extended conflict.

 

[Floriano]

I'm so very proud of most people in the replies. Mature and realistic takes, for what actually is a HUGE event in the school. And I'm glad people are taking or at least understanding her worries.

 

[KuroeNekumi]

...what i took from this chapter really was "huh, so Tsubaki WAS interested in Tadashi from the start, but was going about it in the immature 'if he doesn't pay attention to me, then he must suffer' way that kids would do".

Until she started to develop those feelings besides just wanting his attention because he wouldn't pay attention to her, and into "i just want to be with him (not necessarily sexually, though it'd be nice...)" - which is the more explicit part we see. After all, as many people here have said, her outspoken intentions at the start, which she admits regretting now, was "I want to get him expelled".

Which also was the first time she had tried it towards someone she plainly didn't like, instead of someone who was at least planning to do something to her, going by her wording here and the previous chapter, and at least supplemented by the school's tapes. Hell, checking everything from the first chapters over, she hasn't thought nor has been shown in the act of trying to get someone, besides Tadashi, expelled simply for annoying her - it is only rumours spoken by other students.

It is hard to think of some comprehensive statement about Tsubaki, with that information in mind. Since it makes sense she would act out like that, with her mix of trauma and privilege feeding into her mental immaturity, but it doesn't make it any less horrific, becoming a perpetrator of the things she herself was traumatized by without really realizing WHAT she was doing. It's all kinds of messed-up.

It makes me wonder if the idea was that by that point, the rumours about her honey-potting people she didn't like was starting to affect her (i mean, it is almost victim-blaming her for getting people expelled, when everything we now know points to it having continuously been people trying to creep on her SINCE CHILDHOOD ALL THE WAY TO THE PRESENT DAY), so she took her unnoticed attraction mixed with that weighting in her mind and just...went about trying to realize her "little crush" with the worst frame of mind possible.