Chapter Summaries

Sogo Doma hid in the boss's chair while watching Taizo Hasegawa and the short, fat BOSS argue over Hasegawa's job, the claw machine witch, and the business's looming bankruptcy. The BOSS realized the person he had asked Hasegawa to bring back was missing, while Sogo discovered his presence suppression worked on Hasegawa.

• Sogo Doma suspected Taizo Hasegawa's sunglasses concealed a supernatural monster and suppressed his presence.
• The short, fat BOSS called Hasegawa cheap labor and demanded that he remove his sunglasses, but Hasegawa refused.
• Hasegawa said he had brought in the claw machine witch, and the BOSS feared she would empty the machines and ruin the business.
• The BOSS asked where the person he had told Hasegawa to bring back had gone, and Hasegawa realized the customer was missing.
• Sogo Doma hid in the boss's chair and concluded that suppressing his presence worked on Hasegawa.
• Hasegawa offered to find cardboard boxes if the business went bankrupt, prompting the BOSS to protest that this was no comfort.

Sogo Doma investigated Hasegawa Sunglasses and the short, fat BOSS, mistaking their argument over personal possessions for signs of a supernatural threat. The BOSS then begged Sogo to ask the claw machine witch for mercy, while he and Hasegawa argued over whether to offer up the chair or the sunglasses.

• Hasegawa explained that he had fought to protect his sunglasses when he became homeless, while the BOSS insisted his executive chair was his own bottom line.
• Hasegawa and the BOSS argued over whether sunglasses or a chair mattered more, and the BOSS said sitting in his chair had caused him to gain weight.
• Sogo Doma prepared to escape while watching Hasegawa and the BOSS embrace after reconciling over the chair.
• The BOSS dropped into a dogeza and begged Sogo to ask the claw machine witch to spare their business.
• Hasegawa and the BOSS knelt beside each other and argued about whether to sacrifice the sunglasses or the chair, leaving Sogo confused.

Sogo Doma encountered a shop BOSS and his subordinate Hasegawa, who tried to persuade him to stop the claw machine witch through an increasingly absurd series of sacrifices and staged pleas. After Sogo saw through their act, the BOSS announced they would use Plan B.

• The BOSS and Hasegawa argued over whether to sacrifice Hasegawa’s sunglasses or the BOSS’s chair to appease Sogo.
• The BOSS urged Hasegawa to commit seppuku as proof of their sincerity, and Sogo offered them a kitchen knife.
• The BOSS asked Sogo what he wanted in exchange for stopping the claw machine witch, and Sogo pointed out that he had not asked for anything.
• Hasegawa revealed that the BOSS’s pleas had been exaggerated acting, and the BOSS blamed Hasegawa for failing to perform his role convincingly.
• The BOSS revealed a sinister grin and announced that they would use Plan B.

Sogo Doma tried to leave after the short, fat BOSS offered him money to call off the claw machine girl, but the BOSS mistook his awkward behavior for refusal. The BOSS’s terrifying sales smile led Sogo and Hasegawa to agree that he was intimidating customers.

• The short, fat BOSS offered Sogo Doma money to call off the claw machine girl, but Sogo remained wary and tried to leave.
• Sogo reassured the BOSS that the girl meant no harm, but the BOSS misread Sogo’s turned face as proof he would not help.
• Sogo admitted the BOSS’s face was too terrifying to look at, prompting the BOSS to ask Hasegawa whether he looked frightening.
• Hasegawa learned that the BOSS believed his intimidating grin was a winning sales smile and that customers and merchants had been avoiding the shop.
• Hasegawa asked the BOSS to recreate his customer-attracting expression, and Sogo and Hasegawa agreed that it was outright intimidation.

Sogo Doma watched the short, fat BOSS learn that his friendly sales pitch and encouragement had been mistaken for intimidation because of his frightening expressions. The BOSS blamed Hasegawa for failing to understand him, while Sogo worried that insulting the sunglasses-wearing supernatural creature might provoke him.

• The short, fat BOSS recalled how customers had agreed to play his claw machines after he pressured them with a terrifying expression.
• Sogo Doma called the BOSS's sales tactics intimidation, and the BOSS insisted he had only wanted people to enjoy the machines.
• The BOSS revealed that he wanted customers to spend money, prompting Hasegawa to give up on making an effort at work.
• The BOSS and Hasegawa discovered that they had repeatedly mistaken the BOSS's encouragement and smile for threats.
• The BOSS berated Hasegawa for being unable to read the room, and Sogo Doma worried that the supernatural creature might retaliate.

Sogo Doma recognized Taizo Hasegawa as a seemingly harmless, useless middle-aged uncle and stopped worrying about the supernatural sunglasses. The short, fat BOSS realized his frightening smile might suit a haunted house, leaving him considering a new business idea.

• The dejected sunglasses argued that ordinary people wore sunglasses too, while the short, fat BOSS blamed them for scaring off customers.
• Hasegawa explained that some customers sought his crane-game advice, and Sogo Doma recognized him as Taizo Hasegawa.
• Sogo Doma concluded that Hasegawa was a harmless, useless middle-aged uncle and relaxed his guard.
• Hasegawa revealed that the short, fat BOSS had been banned from the meat market for causing excessively long lines.
• Sogo Doma told the short, fat BOSS that his smile was good at frightening people, and the BOSS began considering opening a haunted house.

Sogo Doma and Umaru competed at an arcade game while arguing over household authority and dinner entertainment. After Sogo lost just before the final boss, the siblings headed home for a barbecue, leaving the arcade manager relieved that they had gone.

• Umaru questioned why Sogo was at critical health, and he claimed his assassin-like play style justified letting her tank for him.
• Umaru accused Sogo of stealing boss kills and grinding for experience, while he admitted that he saw teammates as rivals in the fight for victory.
• Sogo revealed that he wanted control of the dinner television for one day, but Umaru explained that they were having a barbecue and would not be watching TV.
• A distracted Sogo was defeated by a minion before reaching the Demon King's castle, and Umaru noticed he had returned from buying sauce with many arcade token vouchers.
• Sogo said he had gotten the vouchers from an acquaintance, and the siblings left as the arcade manager mourned their damage to the prize machines.

Sogo Doma talked the short, fat BOSS out of joining the yakuza by convincing him to pursue his love of claw machines instead. The BOSS then revealed he had given arcade vouchers to the Claw Machine Witch in hopes that she would wreak havoc on a rival arcade.

• Sogo Doma discouraged the short, fat BOSS from joining the yakuza and urged him to focus on claw machines.
• The short, fat BOSS embraced his supposed talent for claw machines and promised to keep the machines stocked with coins, even if no one won prizes.
• The short, fat BOSS thanked Sogo Doma by giving him vouchers for the arcade upstairs, and Sogo Doma accepted them.
• Five minutes later, the short, fat BOSS told Hasegawa that he had given the vouchers away to send the Claw Machine Witch to attack the arcade, which he considered a competitor.

On the way home, Sogo Doma and Umaru Doma argued over their haul of prizes and Umaru explained why unused vouchers were terrifying. Meanwhile, Yukinoshita Haruno raced to help her sister and blamed Sogo for what had happened.

• Sogo Doma scolded Umaru Doma for buying so many plushies and prizes, while Umaru blamed him for taking the vouchers.
• Umaru warned Sogo that unused vouchers could expire before someone got around to using them, but he dismissed her story as ordinary bad luck.
• Yukinoshita Haruno drove recklessly after work to help her sister and vowed to make Sogo Doma pay.

Sogo Doma came home to find Yukinoshita Haruno looking disheveled and furious, and Umaru invited her inside to clean up. Haruno blamed Sogo after realizing she had passed out at his door, and he suspected his basic defense mechanism had caused her appearance.

• Sogo Doma pretended not to be himself when the frightening woman confronted him, then recognized her as Yukinoshita Haruno.
• Umaru mistook Haruno's condition for trouble and invited her inside, while Sogo joked that her appearance might be deliberate fashion.
• Haruno checked her reflection, borrowed Umaru's bathroom, and demanded to know who had made her look that way.
• Haruno said she had rung the doorbell, passed out, and woken up looking like a monster, leading Sogo to suspect his defense mechanism had been triggered.

Sogo Doma and Umaru brought the battered Yukinoshita Haruno inside, where she used their bathroom while they argued over whether Sogo’s home-defense system had caused her injuries. The doorbell rang again, leaving Sogo to answer it as Umaru remained suspicious of the system.

• Umaru welcomed Yukinoshita Haruno inside and asked to call her Sister Haruno.
• Umaru questioned Sogo about dangerous traps and tranquilizer darts in the house, and he insisted the system was meant to protect them.
• Umaru pointed out that Haruno was still in the bathroom and challenged Sogo’s excuses for her injuries.
• Sogo admitted that Haruno had triggered the defense system, though he could not explain why she had seemed hostile toward him.
• The doorbell rang, and Sogo went to answer it while Umaru warned that the system might still have malfunctioned.

Sogo Doma and Umaru brought home a collection of plush toys, and Umaru used Yukino Yukinoshita’s love of Mr. Pan to persuade her to accept one as thanks for tutoring Mashiro. Yukino left with an out-of-print Mr. Pan plush, delighted by the gift but wishing it had come from a friend.

• Yukino questioned Sogo about the shopping spree and noticed the many plush toys among the purchases.
• Umaru told Yukino that she had won the Mr. Pan plushes from claw machines and offered them as thanks for tutoring Mashiro.
• Yukino admitted that she liked Mr. Pan and Meowtaro, then struggled to refuse the precious out-of-print plushes.
• Umaru insisted that she would keep Meowtaro and asked Yukino to take good care of Mr. Pan.
• Yukino accepted Mr. Pan, pleased to receive her first gift from someone outside her family.

Yukinoshita Haruno rushed out to comfort Yukino, but her disheveled appearance only embarrassed her and amused Sogo Doma. Yukino then reported that Mashiro could not understand her lessons, and Sogo challenged Yukino over whether she was making excuses to avoid tutoring her.

• Yukinoshita Haruno burst out of the bathroom in a bathrobe, trying to comfort Yukino after assuming Doma had hurt her.
• Yukino questioned Haruno's appearance, prompting Haruno to retreat to the bathroom to get ready.
• Sogo Doma teased Haruno and suggested her appearance might have been deliberate, while Umaru silently rejected his suspicion.
• Yukino apologized for Haruno and asked whether everything was all right with Mashiro.
• Yukino said Mashiro could not understand even basic examples and doubted she could pass the make-up exam through cramming.
• Sogo Doma reminded Yukino that Mashiro had spent her time drawing, then accused Yukino of using Mashiro's lack of ability as an excuse to refuse tutoring her.

Sogo Doma challenged Yukino Yukinoshita’s doubts about Mashiro Shiina’s ability to pass her make-up exam. Mashiro memorized a practice test perfectly, but Sogo pointed out that she might still fail if the exam used different questions.

• Yukino Yukinoshita insisted she would keep tutoring Mashiro, though she could not guarantee Mashiro would pass.
• Sogo Doma recalled that Mashiro had passed a make-up exam before and realized Yukino was underestimating her memory.
• Mashiro completed a test perfectly in under two minutes, leaving Yukino baffled.
• Mashiro explained that she had memorized the test like a picture, and she confidently declared the make-up exam would be no problem.
• Sogo warned that Mashiro had only memorized the questions and suggested Yukino change them while keeping the same topics.
• Yukino and Umaru realized Mashiro might struggle with new questions, but Mashiro remained confident.

Yukino Yukinoshita tutored Mashiro for her make-up exam after Sogo Doma maneuvered her into accepting the request. Yukino discovered that Mashiro’s real motivation was Baumkuchen, while Sogo teased Yukinoshita Haruno about her monthly visit from a good friend.

• Sogo Doma challenged Yukino Yukinoshita to tutor Mashiro, using their academic rivalry to make Yukino commit to helping her pass the make-up exam.
• Yukino struggled to teach Mashiro, who could not solve rephrased questions and admitted she wanted tutoring so she could eat Baumkuchen.
• Yukinoshita Haruno angrily shoved open the living-room door after visiting the bathroom.
• Sogo Doma teased Yukinoshita Haruno about the good friend who visited her every month, and Haruno realized his remark referred to her period and called him a bastard.

Yukinoshita Haruno confronted Sogo Doma over his relationship with Yukino, while he misunderstood her outrage as extreme overprotectiveness about Yukino tutoring Mashiro. The argument ended with Haruno discovering Yukino was upstairs in Mashiro Shiina’s room and imagining an even more scandalous explanation.

• Yukinoshita Haruno demanded to know why Sogo Doma had gone after Yukino, and he thought she was angry because he had asked Yukino to tutor Mashiro.
• Sogo Doma defended the arrangement as a way to make Yukino less lonely, while Haruno accused him of deceiving and using her sister.
• Haruno warned Sogo Doma that she would remember what happened and asked where Yukino was.
• Sogo Doma told Haruno that Yukino was writing in Mashiro Shiina’s room, then left to avoid further argument.
• Haruno realized Mashiro Shiina was a girl and imagined that Sogo Doma had used Yukino as a substitute for a former lover.

Umaru tried to make barbecue sauce with a bizarre mix of ingredients, while Yukinoshita Haruno tried to comfort Yukino after what happened at school. Yukino refused to talk with her sister, leaving Haruno distressed and blaming Sogo Doma.

• Umaru mixed barbecue-flavored chips, sweets, drinks, durian, and other ingredients into her barbecue sauce, creating a foul-smelling concoction.
• Sogo Doma refused Umaru's demand that he eat the sauce and told her she should have stuck to the ingredients he had prepared.
• Yukinoshita Haruno rushed to embrace Yukino, but Yukino pushed her away.
• Haruno asked Yukino to return with her and talk, but Yukino refused and said they had nothing to discuss.
• Yukinoshita Haruno realized Yukino distrusted her and blamed Sogo Doma for the situation.

Sogo Doma and Umaru Doma traded jokes while cleaning up after Umaru, and Yukino Yukinoshita struggled to interpret her sister’s apology. The chapter left Yukinoshita Haruno noticing Mashiro Shiina in the room and wondering about her relationship with Doma.

• Sogo Doma teased Umaru Doma about hoping he would catch a cold, and Umaru called him the embodiment of a Salted Fish Virus.
• Sogo Doma told Umaru to clean up her barbecue mess herself, prompting her to apologize.
• Yukinoshita Haruno solemnly apologized to Yukino Yukinoshita, while Yukino remained wary and unsure how to respond.
• Mashiro Shiina advised Yukino to say “It's okay” when forgiving someone who apologized.
• Yukinoshita Haruno noticed Mashiro and wondered whether Doma might be interested in both her and Yukino.

Yukinoshita Haruno misunderstood Yukino Yukinoshita’s tutoring arrangement with Mashiro Shiina as a sexual encounter and grew alarmed when Yukino defended it as a normal favor rewarded with Baumkuchen. The chapter ended with Haruno declaring that something was very wrong with Yukino.

• Yukinoshita Haruno noticed Mashiro Shiina in Doma’s house and mistakenly suspected that Mashiro and Yukino had been intimate with Doma.
• Yukino Yukinoshita confirmed that she had accepted Doma’s request, while Haruno wrongly interpreted her answer as consent to a sexual encounter.
• Yukino argued with Haruno over whether her sister had any right to interfere with her personal choices.
• Mashiro explained that she had agreed because Doma promised to make her Baumkuchen after tutoring.
• Yukino defended Baumkuchen as an ordinary reward for studying, and Haruno concluded that something was very wrong with her.

Yukinoshita Haruno mistook Yukino’s observation of Sogo Doma for a far more compromising experience, while Yukino struggled to understand her sister’s assumptions. At the Doma Residence, Umaru complained that Sogo had prepared backup sauce, then abandoned the argument when her manga reached a crucial moment.

• Yukinoshita Haruno urged Yukino Yukinoshita to face what she assumed was a traumatic experience, but Yukino insisted she did not care about it.
• Yukino explained that she had only observed Sogo Doma and written a report, while Haruno’s reactions led Yukino to realize they were talking about different things.
• At the Doma Residence, Umaru Doma accused Sogo Doma of not trusting her because he had prepared sauce in advance.
• Umaru blamed her failed sauce-making on Sogo’s backup plan and defended her desire to make the task more challenging.
• Umaru stopped arguing and told Sogo to keep quiet because her manga had reached a crucial moment.