Ron Does Stuff

I’ve been sick the past few days, literally bedridden like some consumption-ridden Victorian child, and I honestly am not 100 percent even now. But things are already piling up, so I’m trying to catch up as quickly as I can!

At the end of the previous episode, Dera discovers he’s got a half-sibling named Ken, who is loaded. Let’s hope he doesn’t use up that money at the horse races!

Whether the money is still around is something we’re going to have to find out later, because for now, we get to see Yuru making arrows while Ken watches. Ken wants Yuru to teach him how to use a weapon so he becomes stronger, and I feel like Ken will fill the sibling-shaped hole that Yuru is feeling right now.

Speaking of siblings, Asa and Gabby are talking to one of the henchpeople who attacked them back in episode six. The woman, Makoto, has two Daemons named Akai and Midori. Akai is a shapeshifting fox that can transform into anyone, while Midori is a raccoon that can keep things in his scrotum. Makoto’s here to look for the west gate they insist exists. And it looks like she wasn’t lying, as Jin and the gang find traces of where the gate would have been.

And then we’re taken elsewhere in Japan, with Asuma meeting with an uncle named Shingo. The uncle is asking why Asuma let Yuru go, and Asuma says if the uncle visited the manor, he’d know how difficult it is to dispatch Left and Right. The uncle also suggests killing off Hagure, as well as Asuma getting Asa to be on his side. Asuma has a polite response for each suggestion, but seems a little ticked off when his uncle tells him he’s as useless as his mother. He leaves one of his spy moths, but another character quickly dispatches it. We don’t know who he is yet!

Meanwhile, Dera and Hana are trying to find Dera and Ken’s dad, and their initial online search leads them to the name Kinjo Nagisa, which might be Yuru’s mom. The twins’ grandmother might still be alive and could provide them with information.

Back at the Kagemori complex, Jin and Asuma are talking about Asuma tailing Yuru and how that is definitely not helping when it comes to gaining their trust. It also looks like the Kagemoris keep some of their dead minions “alive” in government records just so they have an identity they can assume just in case it’s needed. We also get confirmation that Yuru and Asa’s maternal grandmother is alive, or at least someone is saying that she’s their grandmother. You never know, this could be a shapeshifter, or just another Daemon wielder.

AND WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT. It seems like it is their grandmother, but Asa notices that she’s been making the exact same phone call to her every time, and then we see that a pair of spider Daemons are controlling her. But who is wielding these Daemons?

Over at Yuru’s home, the gang decides against visiting the Osaka Kinjos because they will either bring the threat to them, or somebody’s already gotten to them, and a trap is waiting for anyone who visits them. And the audience already knows that it’s option number two.

With the Osaka Kinjos a dead end, Dera goes to a shaman to try to contact his father. But the shaman hasn’t heard from Dera’s father either. We also find out that the shaman was attacked by the same character who got rid of one of Asuma’s moths. Interesting.

After that discussion, the shaman goes to Higashi village to bring vaccines and news of the outside world, but then we get a surprise as the katana-wielding character, Ivan Yosano, cuts his way out of the shaman. And I think he’s here to finish off what remains of Higashi village.

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