Ura Baito: Toubou Kinshi - Vol. 8 Ch. 89 - Babysitter ③

[fennec]

Surprisingly rare to see the fate of someone who didn't complete their demonic pact be detailed like this. Wonder if that would have been baby Ringo's fate if he'd succeeded...

 

[BreadBunny]

A little weird to see two arcs back to back pretty much completely explain themselves, I don't dislike it but this sure was already a mystery that was petty easy to solve without being told that the guy went to hell forever you know.

 

[ilusatus]

Thats weirdly detail explanation.

 

[ieatass69]

remember kids, behind every successful isekai attempts, there are plenty more like this one. don't try to reincarnate

 

[spurgleburgle]

I like that you see them have to work a little to use Yume's smell ability. All they know is that it's dangerous that day and that the tomato juice smells white, so they piece together that they'll have to use it as fake blood. It would be more interesting if they played around more with introducing what smells black or white earlier on in the story.

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[FogChinatsu]

So it was indeed an (attempted) body swap.

Nice to see though that this actually had a happy ending! The dude who tried to swap with the baby got his karma at the end, and the baby returned to her body and lived a fulfilling life. Can't get any better than that in this manga's universe lol.

Though, I thought the parents were rich? Why was the daughter riddled with money problems after they died? She should have had an inheritance... though I suppose maybe they were rich due to shady dealings that fell through when they died. After all they did hire a bunch of gray workers to babysit for them.

Japan stuffs ig; taxes etc

 

[MotierBB]

So, being a masochist helps in case one failed a body swap attempt. Got it.

 

[SMAXZO]

What do we learn today, kids? Never do pacts with demons!

 

[Levankua]

Reincarnation Isekai be like

 

[LupusVir]

At least the human perpetrator (or helper/slave to the supernatural/aliens/etc2) this time got owned trying to fuck with innocents.

Demons

It's a goat-man entity that makes pacts with humans to grant them supernatural favors in exchange for souls and lives, and then tortures those souls for eternity. And this guy's like "I have no clue what this is. Aliens, maybe?"

 

[capricieux]

The most satisfying one so far because of the detailed explaination & the 'happy' ending for both people.

 

[LupusVir]

Surprisingly rare to see the fate of someone who didn't complete their demonic pact be detailed like this. Wonder if that would have been baby Ringo's fate if he'd succeeded...

I doubt it. Ringo probably would have gone wherever souls usually go. Or become a ghost. It might have been Hama's fate, though.

 

[Vainfire]

...Huh. On the one hand, this is a REMARKABLY different stance than what we've seen the mangaka take on some things. The repeated theme of debt, of circumstance, of the exploited poor who need to keep working these terrible jobs because society has decided that those with money should get to sacrifice those without money to eldritch gods in exchange for more money. They will literally take your soul from you if they can.

On the other hand, this is a remarkably SIMILAR stance to what we've seen the mangaka take in other respects: no easy outs in life, no trying to skip the sourness, you need to do it and you need to do it the right way. Trying a shortcut will only lead to hardship, and reincarnation is certainly a shortcut.

I guess the author's stance is ultimately quite conservative. It's a mix of: yes, you're in this terrible position, but it's also incumbent on you to get out. We've seen this theme expressed more and more as time has passed (consider the other grey workers, who started out solely as tragic and exploited but then later became more warnings, such as the girl who hired a rental family). I wonder if this is a case where the manga's success has impacted the author's view on life. We can also compare and contrast the security guard story (where the "blackest company" works you past death) and the more recent factory worker story (where it's more a story about the workers themselves failing to keep their wits about them).

 

[RangoBongo]

I mean that's just excessive isn't it!!!!

 

[silverpetricof]

Thank you for the translation.