Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai - Vol. 5 Ch. 31 - Language is not scary

[Hicleric]

Rare chapter ending 100% resolved and like 80% happy? That can only mean there's a storm a-brewin'

 

[Clover_Zero]

Nice to see ikiryou here.

 

[ojoudere]

Usseewa​

is the title of a song by Japanese singer Ado. It's especially trendy among young people and some children sing it instead of replying properly to their parents.

 

[Sonaldo]

So the girl who was bullied thought that the bully's kid should learn the words or that he would end up like his mother and so it manifasted? I am a little bit confused here.

It's her. Blackstone's reply above summed it up well.

A person can project their own feeling into something like ghost.
But unlike the usual definition of ghost, the person is still alive.

Oooh that's why Kaya chan didn't do anything to the entity. It's not a ghost or evil spirits that she usually exorcise

 

[gundulgondrong]

ah so the ghost is not a dead person, it's just manifestation of person's emotion, mayumi chan is still alive and doing well

 

[SilentWInd]

So her hatred was so vivid it manifested into an evil spirit and haunted her childhood bully's child?

 

[EchoGirl]

So the "perfect woman" was an awful bully in her school age, especially towards an "ugly duckling" character.

Well the perfect woman grew up to be someone who cared about perfect image, but she never made up with the people she bullied, and her guilt created a haunting spirit that the kids can see. The spirit looks like the ugly duckling used to look as a child.

Meanwhile the ugly duckling character has matured into a happy and wholesome swan character, with a happy child of her own. She doesn't

the mothers were talking about it at the end so i assume mayumi-chan might know now, if not realizing that it was her b/c her surname changed after being married or so

and lol did not expect an usewa name drop in this manga but that's also on the parents to not let their kids get exposed to it unless it's literally playing in some stores or whatever XD

but woo for a nicer ending where kaya doesn't need to 'absorb' anyone

 

[TrueGoddessReincarnation]

What the fuck did I just read?

 

[Arexty]

Sometimes the real ugliness is what's on the inside...
Rare chapter where Kaya-chan didn't have to bonk the problems away.

This chapter was pretty easy to clean and redraw. Next one though... well, you'll see.

Thanks for the chapter, but I don't like the sound of that.

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[TheWisestofWolfies]

No. Rather Mayumi's extreme hatred manifested a malevolent spirit that was merely directed at her bully. Its entirely subsconscious, and how that spirit goes about hurting them is out of their control.

So the girl who was bullied thought that the bully's kid should learn the words or that he would end up like his mother and so it manifasted? I am a little bit confused here.

 

[thegoatrider]

So the girl who was bullied thought that the bully's kid should learn the words or that he would end up like his mother and so it manifasted? I am a little bit confused here.

The feelings manifested a grudge based spirit even after the original person who was bullied moved on, those residual feelings haunted the bully through her son

 

[Ovnidemon]

I think there are 2 interpretations.

1)Grey Ending: Mayumi created the spirit because of her hatred. So under her happy and serene face hides an immense hatred.

2)Self inflicted karma: Ootori created the spirit because of self hatred and not wanting the truth to spill out.

The ending seems to hint toward the first possibility;
But the second possibility is more logical (If Mayumi created the spirit, it would be more likely that it would be the mother that would be haunted, since the hatred targets her. But if Ootori created the spirit, it would target her image of perfect mother, hence the child)

Both are valid options IMO

 

[blank-dot]

Face be scarier than the ghost

 

[friendly]

On the west, I think we call this phenomenon "living in someones head rent free"

 

[Omled]

As soon as I saw the lyrics, I knew it was an Ado reference.

 

[LupusVir]

I think there are 2 interpretations.

1)Grey Ending: Mayumi created the spirit because of her hatred. So under her happy and serene face hides an immense hatred.

2)Self inflicted karma: Ootori created the spirit because of self hatred and not wanting the truth to spill out.

The ending seems to hint toward the first possibility;
But the second possibility is more logical (If Mayumi created the spirit, it would be more likely that it would be the mother that would be haunted, since the hatred targets her. But if Ootori created the spirit, it would target her image of perfect mother, hence the child)

Both are valid options IMO

Well, the spirit didn't "target" the kid. It used the kid to target the mom. In the end, the kid wasn't hurt. Taught some nasty language, briefly possessed to pass on a message.

I mean, probably briefly.

 

[Ovnidemon]

Well, the spirit didn't "target" the kid. It used the kid to target the mom. In the end, the kid wasn't hurt. Taught some nasty language, briefly possessed to pass on a message.

I mean, probably briefly.

It targeted the child: the child saw and interacted witht the spirit long before the mother saw it.

 

[LupusVir]

It targeted the child: the child saw and interacted witht the spirit long before the mother saw it.

Yes, interacted with the child in order to target the mother. The target is who you are intending to harm or affect. The spirit wasn't targeting the child by teaching him bad language. It was targeting the mother by teaching the child bad language.

 

[ImNotCreativeEnoughtForThese]

Amazing chapter, I really like how the 2 characters are connected and have such a nasty past, well one of them.