Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi - Ch. 55 - Floating, Bouncing, Drying

[erana1]

I guess for how long she's lived she never got out of her edgy teenager phase

"IT'S NOT A PHASE! THAT'S WHO I AM!"

 

[erana1]

If kill is really in quotation marks, then I don’t think Azami means it in a literal sense, which means there‘s only one other thing I can imagine she means and that’s why she needs Hinako.

Sure, she hurt Hiori before, but she didn‘t die and she eventually healed. That’s not enough to satisfy her vengeance. She wants Hiori to experience the same kind of pain she did, to want to die but be unable to. Before, that was impossible, but now, there’s someone that Shiori actually cares about, someone she wants to live. What better way to “kill” someone than to go straight for their “heart”.

Dude, she wants to ACTUALLY, literally, KILL her. No need to overthinking stuff. (EDIT: Just checked the raws. The mangaka uses Western-style quotation marks instead of kagikakko (『 』), Japanese-style quotation marks. That usage is most often asociated with emphasis - like using italics in Latin alphabet writting. For implication of "a different meaning", kagikakko are prefered). And yes, "inmortal" yokai can and often DIE in Japanese stories. Being wounded by something that they are vulnerable to, being devoured, being killed by a more powerful yokai, being targetted by death magic, having the source of their inmortality destroyed... thousands of ways. Dunno which variant of the ningyo, 人魚 (the japanese mermaid) is the mangaka using as a basis, but in the MOST likely one, the tale of the girl who eats a nygyo and becomes inmortal (and becomes a priest in the tale), the mermaid is EXPLICITLY stated to die becaue of having been butchered and eaten. That simple.

 

[RozemynePower]

I hope Shiori rips her head off, should have left you to die like the worthless scum you are.

 

[Colonel-Picquart]

If Azami isn't being metaphorical and does have a way of killing Shiori, then not to be crass but why doesn't she use it on herself?? Like she has the same kind of immortality as Shiori, and I don't think mermaids work on vampire rules where if you kill the progenitor vampire the underlings all die too.

 

[erana1]

If Azami isn't being metaphorical and does have a way of killing Shiori, then not to be crass but why doesn't she use it on herself?? Like she has the same kind of immortality as Shiori, and I don't think mermaids work on vampire rules where if you kill the progenitor vampire the underlings all die too.

Aaaaand... if you combine this with my post, two above yours, of "maybe the way of killing a yokai is eating it a per the Japanese tale" you may get quite the silly, darkly humorous image of Azami briefly considering cooking and eating herself (maybe in miso soup, maybe wrapping herself in rice and a giant nori sheet) before reaching the conclusion that it was a silly idea that wouldn't quite work 🙃

Which is a silly image but hilariously might actually hold the key of the issue - maybe the kill method wouldn't wok on her, maybe it's actually painful and he doesn't want it, maybe she's an hypocrite who claims to hate inmortality but won't even consider ending herself.... Who knows?

 

[deltahalo241]

If Azami isn't being metaphorical and does have a way of killing Shiori, then not to be crass but why doesn't she use it on herself?? Like she has the same kind of immortality as Shiori, and I don't think mermaids work on vampire rules where if you kill the progenitor vampire the underlings all die too.

Maybe she plans on having Erika kill her for good once she's got her revenge on Shiori

 

[beThereShortly]

Tone fucking set. Now let's see that plan of hers.
Thank you for the chapter!