So, I look at the cover page and think "wow, that's a really ugly woman!" Then I keep staring at it for a while and start cracking up 🤣 It's Shiraishi 🤣
@Sarsak In this time period, she is at the age where she stops being seen a kid. It is her own decision to do that too. All other characters gave her the option to come back to her village after the code is solved but she refused.
@rokegle135 It is the therm the police of that time used to refer to when they crackdown on the unlicensed prostitutes, the tanuki part is probably because the mythical tanuki was an animal that deceived people by transformation, so they are saying the unlicensed ones are false and were deceiving people (obviously because they didn't pay the license tax).