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

[Lunkli]

Tohakari's back! I always knew this day would come...

 

[savetheprince]

"I cant just kill him like this" oh spica you're so silly

not as fun as reading morale debates on illegal manga site

 

[ryuumajin]

This is interesting. Spica asks a reference from an edgy psycho-killer-wannabe for a good inspirations. While she's the "dark psycho-avenger".

I thought she'd take her to his memorial killing spot through his memories, but it seems the chance is coming sooner than she though it'd be.

 

[Doed13]

Serial killer asking normal person how to identify serial killer.

Even spica has her pattern. She always want to kill others that she deemed misbuttoned, based on her ability to read mind.

 

[Coffeez]

If the triggering is a telephone coil cord or radio cord in his car, maybe it's related to the method he kills people; consider the victims as handsets, and he ties them up with rope like a handset cord and swing it around

 

[Kushikime]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[RC1138Boss]

Spica's questions to Toha felt like she wasnt just talking about the old guy but also herself, after all she is also a serial killer.

 

[ErikTheRed]

Successfull people like dictators

 

[testro]

But what is her pattern? The little letters of confession? If preventive measures are patterns, then self defenders,vigilantes and bounty hunters were all serial killers too.
If anything, so far spica is a punisher type vigilante

Satisfaction for the killing itself? Dosent look like.
Sathisfied for "sending murderers to hell" sounds about right, specially in this chapter, looks like she feels as if killing an innocent if the old men dosent remember, so she definitely has satisfaction for taking out murderers, otherwise, if it was for justice alone, she should just get the old men done regardless, his dementia dosent change his murders.

Let me put it this way. There are plenty of serial killers who specifically killed prostitutes and "wanton" women because of their "immorality", with a legacy tracing back to Jack the Ripper. Spica is just like them, except she kills people for being immoral for murdering instead of being immoral sexually.

 

[Exquisitus]

This kid thinking Ted Bundy is a serial killer expert when mf got caught. The real one experts are the ones never caught..... Mangaka should look more into Pedro Lopez

Oh man, I didn't know this guy... And I can't believe that now he's free after killing 300 women. The reality sometimes overcomes any fantasies...

 

[pink_rabbit]

I suppose being a soldier is diff, ppl do talk about war crimes after all

That said, idk if ppl would be that aware bc science didn’t rly get accepted in the religious times, but I wouldn’t put it past someone to spread a plague on purpose like how there were serial killer “nurses” mercy killing ppl

Are you talking about Josef Mengele?

You are right about the mercy nurses..... I forgot but there was an English woman who was a nurse and took out the lives of the elderly.

Oh man, I didn't know this guy... And I can't believe that now he's free after killing 300 women. The reality sometimes overcomes any fantasies...

Sorry that you had to gain the knowledge of finding out who this man is. Terrible human being. I do hope that someone cut the legs off of that man once he was set free....

 

[Venommyotismon]

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.

Yeah. This is my theory as well that the phone cord as well as the taxi receiver cord is the trigger and he lost the urges because of digitalization causing phone and taxi reciever to be wireless. Even though I don’t think it has to be black (the last panel shows that the cord is white).

However, my theory is that his childhood abuse is just bullshit excuse and he just has a strangulation sexual fetish, which is why the victims are always naked.

It looks like the guy from the flashback is his household servant but great catch about him. Looking back at it, he seems very weird on how he commented on Goros relationship with the father too.

 

[Venommyotismon]

If the triggering is a telephone coil cord or radio cord in his car, maybe it's related to the method he kills people; consider the victims as handsets, and he ties them up with rope like a handset cord and swing it around

Yeah, the causes of the victims death is strangulation, not blunt force trauma, which is how I saw the connection to the phone cord in the first place.

I attribute his to his sexual fethish for rope/strangulation, and his childhood abuse of “my father turns bad behind the wheel so do I” is just bullshit excuse. Afterall, there is an emphasis on this chapter that childhood abuse does not automatically causes you to become serial killer.

 

[Pedro_Alcantara]

Let me put it this way. There are plenty of serial killers who specifically killed prostitutes and "wanton" women because of their "immorality", with a legacy tracing back to Jack the Ripper. Spica is just like them, except she kills people for being immoral for murdering instead of being immoral sexually.

Eeh i dont buy it
A murderer that murder prostitutes is a murderer
A "murderer" that murder murderers is a vigilante
especially if those murderers are fully capable of keep on murdering

Im not a lawer, but im pretty sure the diference from a killing to a murderer is some one's innocence

 

[Siranto1]

Well damn, Spica is doomed to die a serial killer

Well a serial killer of serial killers is a net positive

 

[EchoGirl]

Are you talking about Josef Mengele?

You are right about the mercy nurses..... I forgot but there was an English woman who was a nurse and took out the lives of the elderly.

I was just saying in general, tho i guess other than a servant in medieval times, most wouldn't have the opportunity as a commoner to like release a plague rat into some noble's house/castle or so

Well a serial killer of serial killers is a net positive

It would be interesting to see if there were more ppl with a similar 'power' tho her working for some 'organization' versus by herself might be a bit much unless the series drags out. versus her even maybe, leaving the country even or so but i do expect her to transfer schools at least once lol

 

[babonjra]

Yes, that seems about it; at least in c3, she says one touch was enough to discover everything about the teacher's past, incl. the murder from 10 years ago. But this doesn't work against the current dementia patient whose memories aren't all there anymore.

thanks for explaining! ive always thought her ability is just reading people mind only when she touches them, and she’s placing all those fragmented inner thoughts on her own

 

[hawkflights]

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

My jaw dropped a little from his example.

 

[hawkflights]

thanks for explaining! ive always thought her ability is just reading people mind only when she touches them, and she’s placing all those fragmented inner thoughts on her own

I am disappointed at this sudden inner thought reveal, it's almost mundane this way. Prior to this chapter, Spica came off as almost a form of Death incarnate, and this spoils most of that vibe.

 

[EchoGirl]

https://comic-days.com/episode/2550912965126936887 vol 2 announcement? i assume they mean a physical copy and not a digital download lol