Maria no Danzai - Ch. 44 - Truth

[Korvalus]

I mean if it wasn’t obvious it was him from previous chapters, who tf casually carries around hot dog buns with them?

Can we just talk about him carrying a hotdog bun... that was already filled with ketchup... but was completely clean up until that exact point?

Might actually be the stupidest thing I've read. How does a mangaka write that, read it out loud and go "yeah that makes sense."

THIS IS SO FUCKING DUMB. How does nobody stop to question that for a second???? Oh he just happened to have a hotdog in his jacket that protected him. The fuck? Who the fuck carries hotdogs in their jackets???????????

Also... how did they get this kid to stand down after trying to stab fatty? Obviously he didn't actually want to stab fatty cause it was orchestrated, but how did it happen in a way that Okaya doesn't get suspicious?

well seeing the fact that he eats a lot, it is not so far fetched, dude has food on him most of the screen time he has

You guys are forgetting something: he's the one who's ordered the hit on himself. He probably carried snacks on vital points to make it look legit and don't being wounded too seriously.
Remember he knows Okaya the most and knows who's dealing with, so he has to make it look like something he would do to not raise any suspicion on himself. He's more clever than he looks, as seen in previous chapters, but knows Okaya is way worse.

 

[mgRdr]

He probably carried snacks on vital points to make it look legit and don't being wounded too seriously.

Well duh, everyone you quoted knows that. The point is that carrying a hotdog like that is anything but legit

 

[CrowGoesCaw]

Huh so I technically called it. The fatass is starting to turn on okaya but not because of paranoia just because he's getting tired of his BS

 

[Kuroageha]

Pretty rare to have someone other than the main mastermind doing anything in that kind of story.

I'm afraid this is just a tool to make Okaya look 3DEEP6YOU with a lame "I always knew you wanted to betray so I let you but I'm too big brain for that ahhhh "moment

 

[Korvalus]

Well duh, everyone you quoted knows that. The point is that carrying a hotdog like that is anything but legit

Well, he said "he always keeps a hotdog inside his clothes" so as long as it looks like legit from him and Okaya knows it, it works no matter how weird it seems to us.

 

[CurlyBruce]

You guys are forgetting something: he's the one who's ordered the hit on himself. He probably carried snacks on vital points to make it look legit and don't being wounded too seriously.
Remember he knows Okaya the most and knows who's dealing with, so he has to make it look like something he would do to not raise any suspicion on himself. He's more clever than he looks, as seen in previous chapters, but knows Okaya is way worse.

He ordered "the hit" but the kid who carried it out didn't know that, he was just some random teenager they hired from a suspicious website/text message. He likely knew the hit would happen at some point but how and by whom he couldn't have known about because his underlings handled that (the boss doesn't deal with the nitty gritty). The fact that he had a hot dog in the exact spot he just so happened to accidentally get stabbed in is the biggest asspull imaginable (let alone the fact that the hotdog was enough to stop a long knife from at least nicking him when the kid tripped and fell with his full body weight onto Ajiki).

Also Ajiki doesn't know shit about Okaya which is why he's getting bored and taking action himself. It's specifically because he doesn't understand him and why he's taking things so slowly, in a cat and mouse type of way, that he wants Okaya dead. The only thing he knows is that Maria is likely the culprit behind the other murders (because Okaya already figured it out with his L levels of deduction aka bullshit reasoning).

As an aside, this isn't really that much of a twist. The fact that Ajiki is the young master of a Yakuza crime family is definitely information I wouldn't have predicted but the fact that he's backstabbing Okaya isn't shocking in the least. They had already set it up for him to turn on him in previous chapters with the very obvious remarks about how Okaya isn't treating the deaths of his "friends" as anything more than losing pieces in a chess game. The main thing I'm concerned with is that Maria is distancing herself from Okaya in regards to collaboration with him but I guarantee she's going to take it upon herself to handle this and Okaya is likely going to do the same and they'll cross paths again where both essentially reveal themselves to each other.

My prediction is Okaya confronts Ajiki at the shrine and Maria confronts some rando from the organization at the same shrine and they see each other as they take out their respective enemies. Husband will also show up because he was monitoring Maria and catch both of them in the act. He'll take them both in but because Okaya's mom is the Chief his involvement will be swept under the rug so Maria is the only one getting caught out and the husband will have to make a choice on whether to help her or not from that point. Okaya essentially has her exactly where he wants her since she's in police custody and that is where the real endgame starts.

 

[Jadeite_McSwag]

"It's not blood it was just ketchup from the hotdog I keep in my shirt" bruh

 

[HOMIZAPEINS]

bro suddenly becomes a breathing fat stereotype and avoids death

 

[CielarcR]

And here I was wondering why we never get to know Ajiki's background 😂

 

[ysil69]

You guys are forgetting something: he's the one who's ordered the hit on himself. He probably carried snacks on vital points to make it look legit and don't being wounded too seriously.
Remember he knows Okaya the most and knows who's dealing with, so he has to make it look like something he would do to not raise any suspicion on himself. He's more clever than he looks, as seen in previous chapters, but knows Okaya is way worse.

A. Carrying a hot dog like that LOOKS suspicious.

B.how the fuck did all the ketchup not get all over his white shirt earlier??

 

[jak]

What a twist

 

[wizard_mouse]

WOW, this SURELY is a just a funny lil COINCIDENCE and definetly NOT a literal asspull by the author doing the bare minimum to keep the satus quo and keep everything as predictable and mediocre a possible.

 

[HououinHelios]

I mean if it wasn’t obvious it was him from previous chapters, who tf casually carries around hot dog buns with them?

Edit: …ketchup filled hotdog buns with no hotdog in them as well 😅😅😅

Of course that's to be expected from a gluttonous character.

Can we just talk about him carrying a hotdog bun... that was already filled with ketchup... but was completely clean up until that exact point?

Might actually be the stupidest thing I've read. How does a mangaka write that, read it out loud and go "yeah that makes sense."

Well duh, everyone you quoted knows that. The point is that carrying a hotdog like that is anything but legit

WOW, this SURELY is a just a funny lil COINCIDENCE and definetly NOT a literal asspull by the author doing the bare minimum to keep the satus quo and keep everything as predictable and mediocre a possible.

I thought the same until I remembered that Japan sells packaged sandwiches/bread-products, like the yakisoba bread.
So it piqued my curiosity and I started researching if packaged hot dogs were being sold in convenience stores.

Spoiler: As an example:

You can see that some of the products resemble (or are) hot dogs. But I was still curious if there was one with ketchup and after further research I found two pictures that confirm their existence.

So the possibility that he got it from the school cafeteria (or somewhere else) and put it in his pocket is not too far-fetched. You could perhaps interpret the amount of ketchup on the hot dog that did make him look like he was bleeding as his odd tendency to open the package, add extra ketchup, and then put it back in the package to eat it later because there is no way the packaged hot dog has that much ketchup that can make him look like he was bleeding. (Unless the talk is exaggerated.)

The real problem I have is, how come some people finds to be carrying a hot dog in your pocket the weird part, but not about how a hot dog can stops a fucking kitchen knife, is beyond me. Edit: And he doesn't even get fucking stabbed from a place with a pocket, truly outrageous.

 

[ryuumajin]

Rotten school, corrupted Police Department and Yakuza.
Of course.

If someday they bring Italian Mafioso under the guise of a Transfer Student, I'll go bonkers!

 

[Wachtail]

K, good shit. Let's see how it goes.
Thanks for the update!

 

[wizard_mouse]

Of course that's to be expected from a gluttonous character.



I thought the same until I remembered that Japan sells packaged sandwiches/bread-products, like the yakisoba bread.
So it piqued my curiosity and I started researching if packaged hot dogs were being sold in convenience stores.

Spoiler: As an example:

You can see that some of the products resemble (or are) hot dogs. But I was still curious if there was one with ketchup and after further research I found two pictures that confirm their existence.

So the possibility that he got it from the school cafeteria (or somewhere else) and put it in his pocket is not too far-fetched. You could perhaps interpret the amount of ketchup on the hot dog that did make him look like he was bleeding as his odd tendency to open the package, add extra ketchup, and then put it back in the package to eat it later because there is no way the packaged hot dog has that much ketchup that can make him look like he was bleeding. (Unless the talk is exaggerated.)

The real problem I have is, how come some people finds to be carrying a hot dog in your pocket the weird part, but not about how a hot dog can stops a fucking kitchen knife, is beyond me. Edit: And he doesn't even get fucking stabbed from a place with a pocket, truly outrageous.

Lol, I don't even care the bread here, it could have been a belt, a keblar vest or even a bible, my problem is that we end the last episode with one of the bad guys being stabbed by someone other than the main character, and even if it's not lethal, it shows you that they are not invincible from the outside world.....but no, they can't even get hurt because plot armor, literally the one think it could've made this more interesting, wasted.

 

[Kushikime]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[newd]

To my son's murderer:
fuck you fuck your cartoon hotdog husband fuck his stupid sunglasses and fuck the ketchup kids!
And fuck their sunglasses!

 

[The_H_Guy]

Finally a "minion" that get sick of his boss and decide to dispose of him.
This is a very rare situation in revenge manga.

 

[Roaljo]

Okay I did not expect this. Pretty good twist, in cautiously intrigued. Let’s see how things progress.

I wonder if they’ll team up and take these three down? Or if it’ll end up in a three way showdown?

Or if he will team up with the MC and take down the douch?

Who knows…