Tsumi to Batsu no Spica - Ch. 28 - Deadly Marriage (8)

[Nekotofu]

Tenma, with that dedication you should be a homicide detective.

 

[HenkumaEnthusiast]

Damn, you skipped right over caffeine and went straight to Adderall?

Spica might be thinking he's an irresponsible idiot, not a potential love interest. He did just try to marry a serial killer, and not even one who supposedly had some kind of justification like Spica.

I mean it's been a prescripted medication for adhd in school since childhood, caffeine sure as heck would not meet the expected effects.

 

[Gabriel434]

Mama I'm in love with a serial killer so cold-blooded she freezes you to the bone

Spica has angel demeanor but demon in her heart, while Tahakaru got demonic demeanor with heart of an angel

Truly meant for each other 🥰

 

[Clover_Zero]

Everything about him has shown that he's the exact opposite of Spica. He's a natural born detective that LARPs as a serial killer while Spica is a serial killer who LARPs as a detective.

That's a funny way to put it, but so accurate. I couldn't quite put it into words, but you did. 😂👍 They're foils to each other, and may probably become enemies in the future...beautiful.

Tohakari Tenma, such a good boy. The goodest boy. 🥺 I wonder how he'd react if/when he finds out the serial killer he's been looking for is so close by (Spica) all along lol. And I wonder if Spica feels elated by what he said there. 😆

 

[KappaDvorak]

in other translation, it say in the news in the last page, that the woman marriage her lawyer, not "found that he sent her money", not sure what correct but i feel like at least the former is make some sense, why sent her money get caught like it is a crime ? if it is, then the manga lack so many context. The former at least make sense in itself and explain this boy reaction

there are no confuse here, the "she kill all 3 people" is the expected "truth", in that chapter. Not that it is truth, but the end raise a flag, "what she mean by that", hint that the real truth is not just end there, which is this 2 last chapter and the little brother twist.

I reread you statement again. the confusion came from your sentence that there is more truth than just the guard killed 3 people. I thought you meant she killed three then there's more than that.

 

[GoblinGuy]

Shit, it was my fault. I made a mistake

While you're fixing mistakes, there's a weird line of offset art on page 1. Like there was a second offset copy of the page on a lower layer, and someone accidentally drew a line with an eraser.

 

[Bananimal]

The female guard only kill 1 person. the last man married to Rukia. The only one that's killed by monoxide poisoning.
The other 3 men killed by Rukia's brother were killed by defenestration.
The reason is the female guard doesn't have enough strength to fight man or throw them from the balcony so she chose sedating the victim and lock him with charcoal in a car.

My guess is that Rukia genuinely appreciated the kid's letters and wanted to reward him in some way. From her past and actions, it seems she felt her worth was tied to how men could use her, so she offered to marry him so he could have a really good first time. Unlike her

Even if I'm wrong, she's such a sad person. I'm glad the kid's a good egg and she's with someone who loves her.

 

[EchoGirl]

Did she type out a confession letter on his smartphone again?
How the fuck does she keep getting away with this, cant imagine the police wont be knocking before the next victim

I mean it did say 'suicide note' i doubt he has any public records on his self to where ppl would bother with a handwriting analysis but no one would rly suspect foul play b/c 'delinquent doing drugs and committing suicide' wouldn't make ppl think twice , but there was that note that one dying police man left

 

[Figtree22]

That was the funniest death ever

 

[EchoGirl]

I dont understand the last page. So rukia will still be in prison now?

Even if her initial charges were cleared, maybe taking the fall for her brother technically counts as being an accomplice/aiding and abetting

Unless you have to specifically make an appeal

 

[Infiking]

Did she type out a confession letter on his smartphone again?
How the fuck does she keep getting away with this, cant imagine the police wont be knocking before the next victim

Spica includes details that nobody but the actual killer could know, barring telepathy. It's way more reasonable to assume that they did commit suicide than someone managing to consistently discover evidence that the police have missed for over a decade. On top of that, the victims that she actually wrote suicide notes for died from ways that look like suicide. Also, the police already missed these guys in the first place, so they aren't very good at finding criminals.

 

[Nivek]

Thanks for the chapter and seems we ended this arc very nice

And Tenma you have no idea what you're looking is right there

 

[nafjay12]

Rukia was a bro con all along

 

[Friendly-Sentence710]

if shes covering for her brother, why did she offer to marry and sex the kid and lie and say "i didnt say this (the proposal) to anyone else"? not like the kid has a bunch of money

One part is she can't help herself trying to use her sexuality to manipulate people. She grew up poor, but was hot, and the being poor forced her learn how to use the being hot for material gain/to help her brother. From that I think she learned that attractiveness is only part physical and the mental side is as important - but I think she also had a natural talent for it. So I think both nature and nurture pushed her into being a femme fatale.

The other part was she wasn't wanting Tenma for his (non-existent) money. I think her plan was to groom Tenma to kill the lawyer. It would take a few years for her/her brother to drain the lawyer dry, by that time Tenma would have grown up. Just like she was able to seduce/control the guard, she'd work her charms on Tenma to convince him to kill the lawyer.

Rukia was a bro con all along

the question is what will she do now that she has found a new bro to brocon....

 

[cromat]

One part is she can't help herself trying to use her sexuality to manipulate people. She grew up poor, but was hot, and the being poor forced her learn how to use the being hot for material gain/to help her brother. From that I think she learned that attractiveness is only part physical and the mental side is as important - but I think she also had a natural talent for it. So I think both nature and nurture pushed her into being a femme fatale.

The other part was she wasn't wanting Tenma for his (non-existent) money. I think her plan was to groom Tenma to kill the lawyer. It would take a few years for her/her brother to drain the lawyer dry, by that time Tenma would have grown up. Just like she was able to seduce/control the guard, she'd work her charms on Tenma to convince him to kill the lawyer.


the question is what will she do now that she has found a new bro to brocon....

That doesn't track with me. She "can't help but use her sexuality to manipulate people" but she's been a victim her whole life. Her brother is the one who used her to get money.

We simply do not see enough from her point of view (except the attempted suicide) which shows her brother meaning a lot to her (probably since even tho he pimped her out he did instinctively save her from the uncle before he got lured by money)

 

[subwayanyway]

Is there a skipped chapter before this?

 

[Friendly-Sentence710]

That doesn't track with me. She "can't help but use her sexuality to manipulate people" but she's been a victim her whole life. Her brother is the one who used her to get money.

We simply do not see enough from her point of view (except the attempted suicide) which shows her brother meaning a lot to her (probably since even tho he pimped her out he did instinctively save her from the uncle before he got lured by money)

That's the thing. He didn't pimp her out, she pimped herself out, because Bro wanted money and she only knew one way to get it. But she's now 38 and seducing people in order to use them is all she knows. Which was fine when she had her noble goal of taking care of her brother, but with him gone she can't live with herself anymore until Tenma gave her one by both forgiving her for manipulating him and setting himself up to be the replacement "little brother she takes care of".

Being a victim doesn't stop you from also being a victimizer. She clocked Tenma as someone she could manipulate and intended to get him on the hook for later use.

 

[Akikako]

Come, on. She isn't innocent, she didn't kill anyone directly, but she volunteer to bait of old men (plus tried to seduce a teen boy). I mean, she isn't evil, but she has a twisted head for sure.

 

[wallsg]

Chuuni boy farmed too much aura unlike us in our chuuni phase...
Man I used to eat rocks at his age

I still eat rocks.

 

[wallsg]

The japanese have a weird understanding of drug effects

They don't come in contact with them as often as in the west and it's also much less talk about so it make sense. TBH ive never taken any drugs (other than aderall) so it's also quite unknown to me how they feel.

It was given a synthetic hallucinogenic drug, and apparently a decently large dose, while already alcohol intoxicated. People can become completely detached from reality and believe anything that they're visualizing. The climbing that he hallucinated may have been crawling up stairs (I doubt he was actually climbing the building) or perhaps Spica lead him up there. I doubt we'll ever find out.