Tsumi to Batsu no Spica - Ch. 16 - Nameless Malice (5)

[ChenLiwei]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/health/serial-killers-golden-state.html

For what its worth, while I get this is a story first and foremost, serial killers are people who are driven to horrible things by horrible conditions, and they too, as people, can change.

Also Spica is deffo a serial killer I dont think theres any denying that. I think this is what the author intents.

 

[Ochrolv]

I’d never thought I see Ted Bundy be drawn or referenced in a manga. Guess it is something I can scratch off in my BINGO card. Anyways it is interesting that Spica has rules set in place for her when it comes to killing. I just wish she found him sooner but it is what it is. Thanks for the translations.

 

[bejad007]

The real one experts are the ones never caught

spoken like a true psycho

 

[Sakuyadorf]

Aww Spica being adorable
The phone has to be the trigger

 

[MidnightTide]

This is getting interesting

Looks like the killer instinct was rekindled from hat lady panel. Hope she kills that old man horribly for what he has done.

 

[SpookKrimzon]

Aww Spica being adorable
The phone has to be the trigger

Looking back through the other chapters, there does seem to be repeated emphasis on those dangly black phone cords, including the one in his taxi. His home phone's black cord being replaced with a white one is also shown alongside him no longer being as excited about his kills (though he kept doing them). And later the home phone is cordless and he's seemingly thinking he escaped his urges.

The other thing catching my eye is that in his childhood flashback, something just feels ominous about his reaction to the neighbor, who also seemed to have a bandaged hand... I wonder if his father wasn't actually the only abusive element of his childhood.

 

[SteamySteams]

The classmate guy is smart and scary at the same time 😅

it took one to know one

 

[testro]

I'm not sure it fits that much, since she doesn't really care about the murder itself, for her it's removing "misbuttoned" evil that her inner desire, while for serial murderers it's the act of murder itself that's realization of their desire, and that's why their murders have patterns.

She's more like terrorist, in that she commits her murders for an external (to act of murder) reason, so she shouldn't have any pattern beside killing murderers. If she run out of murderers, she might never commit murder again.

I don't quite think so. Spica doesn't kill to make the world better, she kills because feels satisfaction from it. Sure it might be from "justice" as she says, but this case specifically shows that she isn't doing it to stop people from killing. If she does absolutely nothing, the old man won't be killing anyone anymore, not with his dementia. Instead she kills to feel that feeling when she kills a murderer.

 

[NickieTheFool]

RELAPSE RELAPSE RELAPSE

 

[Itsn]

Spica chan says if you love what you do you never work a day I your life.

I'm not sure it fits that much, since she doesn't really care about the murder itself, for her it's removing "misbuttoned" evil that her inner desire, while for serial murderers it's the act of murder itself that's realization of their desire, and that's why their murders have patterns.

She's more like terrorist, in that she commits her murders for an external (to act of murder) reason, so she shouldn't have any pattern beside killing murderers. If she run out of murderers, she might never commit murder again.

I don't think we have any idea what her true motive is, like if she's just like that or there was some I citing incident, so it's impossible to say.


My money is her killing herself after being convinced she herself is misaligned

 

[dustbird]

I kind of want him to not actually kill again or even remember what he did. It feels like it'd be an interesting challenge to Spica's morality if she can't be justified in this instance, you know what I mean?

 

[DewaDe_]

wowowowow
chill out old man

 

[TezlaIVJ]

uh oh, gramps got caught on that Neuron Activation moment

 

[PopcornUI]

I think Spica is making a common mistake, which I expect the author might also fall into—the need to rationalize everything. Our bodies are not rational.

take a million PCs, use their calculators and you will get consistent equivalent response, our bodies are full of randomness. Sometimes, you eat a favorite fruit and dislike it, while others find it tastes the same as usual. People can love or hate something without knowing why, and they often invent reasons TO FEEL IN CONTROL. But the truth is, we are not always in control.

Also there are various studies on the matter of wether criminal profiler are actually useful...they are not.

True. I feel like our body and what we think are separate things. We can't even understand ourselves fully. Sometimes our body act instinctly in a way that make even yourself suprised. It can have a reason why you didn't act like what you thought you would've. But to be honest, sometimes it doesn't. Our body is full of mystery that we haven't solved yet.

 

[nightnyx]

I like how Spica trying her hardest to help the old man out of his "retirement"

 

[Doomroar]

That also applies to you Spica

 

[MrSergio]

the pot calling the kettle black, huh

 

[Babymech2]

Manga psychology: 'survivors of trauma don't always become serial killers... Sometimes they become dictators!'

 

[babonjra]

how does her ability works actually? does she only needs 1 touch and voila, she receives all the memories of whom she touches, or what exactly? am i missing something here??

 

[Rim_Strike_Dice]

The sight of his wife on the phone, reminds him of his mother's adultery. The true cause of his childhood traumatic experiences?