This Monster Wants to Eat Me - Ch. 48.5 - The Shallow Shadow

[MangaDex]

 

[ThanatosKaiAnastasi]

Sometimes I'm not sure if Naekawa is distracted by the monsters from drawing cute fluffy animals, or distracted by the cute animals from drawing monsters.

 

[UdenEmpati]

aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I cannot. This is too much.
I just want Hinako to be okaaaaaayyy

Was pretty cool to see Ayame again though.

 

[LMXInferno]

Aha, so the spooky parasol lady shows up again at last. Also, Ayame! Nice to see she's doing alright.

 

[eclipsa.]

I forgot about the past chapters. What's happening here? Who's Ayame again? I'm so confused.😭

 

[Shieldon]

I forgot about the past chapters. What's happening here? Who's Ayame again? I'm so confused.😭

Ayame is the lady hiding a monster in her hair/skull.

 

[Chaosrunewiz]

Thanks for the translation!

 

[DVO19]

Well that's huge

Thanks for the chap

 

[shemper]

Thank you for your work!

 

[Colonel-Picquart]

Could Parasol lady be the girl that Shiori turned immortal?

 

[yanderecoverl]

This is about her aunt now right?

 

[zairaner]

Could Parasol lady be the girl that Shiori turned immortal?

Seems definitely possible

That she looks like a young girl but speaks like an old lady definitely supports this!

Would be pretty funny because as I didn't recognize ayame, I was wondering wether SHE was the immortal girl.

 

[beThereShortly]

I smell plot developments incoming and I can't wait.
Thank you so much for the chapter!

 

[LMXInferno]

Parasol Lady being the girl from Shiori's past seems all but certain, honestly. The big question is if she still wants Shiori dead or not. While her sending the Tanuki girl after them could be seen as an attempt at violence, someone this versed in monsters (notice she seems to recognize Ayame's 'eloquent mouth') must know that a weakling Tanuki couldn't possibly be a threat to Shiori. Perhaps she's trying to hurt Hinako to get to Shiori? But then, why send someone who's target is mostly Miko, and had no intentions to harm Hinako except as a desperate measure? A lot of things don't seem to quite add up, but at the same time her having a change of heart doesn't seem to add up either. Hopefully we'll get a perspective chapter for her eventually.

That said, if her goal really isn't still to kill Shiori, will that remain the case when she learns Shiori gave blood to Hinako?

 

[UdenEmpati]

Parasol Lady being the girl from Shiori's past seems all but certain, honestly. The big question is if she still wants Shiori dead or not. While her sending the Tanuki girl after them could be seen as an attempt at violence, someone this versed in monsters (notice she seems to recognize Ayame's 'eloquent mouth') must know that a weakling Tanuki couldn't possibly be a threat to Shiori. Perhaps she's trying to hurt Hinako to get to Shiori? But then, why send someone who's target is mostly Miko, and had no intentions to harm Hinako except as a desperate measure? A lot of things don't seem to quite add up, but at the same time her having a change of heart doesn't seem to add up either. Hopefully we'll get a perspective chapter for her eventually.

That said, if her goal really isn't still to kill Shiori, will that remain the case when she learns Shiori gave blood to Hinako?

Could be she sent the Tanuki as a scout/test, to find out who all/what all is in the area. Basically a sort of Monster Recon, before showing up herself.

I'm curious as to whether she would still want Shiori dead, myself - that feels like the most plausible reason for her character, given what's happened up to now. Going after Hinako would make sense if that is meant to "hurt" Shiori, in the event, she can't actually kill the Mermaid, herself. Though that would assume that she knows how important Hinako is to Shiori--which, again, could be info gained through the Tanuki.

I'm betting that, if Parasol is the girl from Shiori's past, she will undoubtedly be an antagonist, and will be an enemy that Hinako specifically will have to face, forcing her to further accept her feelings for Shiori.
(at least I hope that's the case; there's merit in her saying "I need Shiori alive so she can eat me", but I also hope it forces her to confront her emotional feelings for Shiori, as well. And vice versa, of course.)

 

[dazedaze1111]

Ah finally the plot will move again with the appearance of new characters

I assume Ayame want to leave before troubles arrive huh?

 

[Gothic_Catalyst]

Thank you for the chapter.

 

[Carn109]

Ayame ice cream

 

[MelonManic]

Oh so that's a new character, neat

Have a nice day

 

[KeraFury]

maybe she's a good person, we havent actually run into any genuinely bad yokai that arnt so monsterous they get taken out in a few panels. also i wonder if the blonde she gives the icecream to is also a yokai, perhaps they are a pair which would make for an interesting dynamic given that new yokai being introduced have all been one at a time. multiple heads working together would make things more difficult for the home team.