Maria no Danzai - Ch. 44 - Truth

[sksocks]

Aijiki just want end this war, but from my pov, maria, okaya and detective (the father) look more family than kiritaka(sorry dude), from their face expression

That'd be a really funny eleventh hour twist if their babies were switched and he was her kid lmao.

 

[RamenRider]

The bigger the clusterfuck the better. How good these types of stories happen to be generally aren’t defined by how well it goes for the main protagonist/antagonist planning but by how hard their plans get wrecked by the stupidest thing and what they do while panicking.

 

[rckvnka]

I knew it this fat dude is more dangerous than his look. But I hope Maria don't bother to pick a fight with the yakuza, just focus on Okaya.

 

[LoliJuicy]

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.

Wouldn't be surprised. I can see Ajiki (if he's not dumb) planning ahead of time if he knows there's chance of him dying. If he dies, then hunting Maria isn't his concern anymore. Instead, he wants Maria to finish the job of ending Okaya. Maybe there's an aide of his he trusts with some proof that could shaken the power of Okaya's family. He has sent it over to Maria as a parting gift, maybe give her a bit of his power for connections with other people.

 

[EchoGirl]

hm I’d expect Okaya to know/be friends with Ajiki /because/ of his family connections as opposed to him worming his way into his friend group tho I guess maybe we’ll get a flash back chapter to how they met

 

[birbdechi]

WHAT
THE
FUCK

 

[EchoGirl]

Wouldn't be surprised. I can see Ajiki (if he's not dumb) planning ahead of time if he knows there's chance of him dying. If he dies, then hunting Maria isn't his concern anymore. Instead, he wants Maria to finish the job of ending Okaya. Maybe there's an aide of his he trusts with some proof that could shaken the power of Okaya's family. He has sent it over to Maria as a parting gift, maybe give her a bit of his power for connections with other people.

even if ajiki himself isn't some 'genius' like Okaya, if he's really that connected with some head yakuza guy (unless they're smaller fry compared to other yakuza in the prefecture or whatever), you'd think at least they would have some kinda 'security detail' on him always like 15 feet away assuming Okaya wouldn't notice that or so

 

[RAYBAND]

THIS MANGA IS TRASH.........THE AVERAGE CHILD IS NOT A MASTERMIND OR COMBATANT, UNLESS YOU'RE BLACK OF COURSE, MOST BLACK PEOPLE, EVEN KIDS ARE FIGHTERS BUT NOT ASIAN KIDS

 

[Kingdex88]

The Fat kid is Yakuza?