Death Pie Chapter 5

After quite a long break, we're back with more Death Pie. And in this chapter, we learn the meaning behind the name "Death Pie", and the story enters the final confrontation! Thanks to our friends at HappyScans! for another great chapter.

Oh, Kagemaru, we barely knew ye. Well, a lot of stuff happened in this chapter, but the gist of it is that, apparently, Kagemaru was a government agent in the Narcotics Division who was trying to get Tobioka into the Yakuza meeting places. Why, we don't know, but it would seem it has to do with Takikawa, Tobioka's old friend. The reason this chapter took so long was because of that long description of Death Pie over Kagemaru's death scene; I had to do a lot of research and the like to get through it, particularly the whole "Death Pipe" thing.

The mahjong battle on the ship kind of seemed like a way of making sure there was Mahjong in every single chapter; it didn't really do much for the story. But we know that the Brother isn't actually Takikawa unless he was using an alias; his real name is Matsudai Yousaku. The whole God Facer scene got me interested to see if all the pieces will eventually fall together neatly; the ship in Chapter 2 was from the Dog Facer Foundation, just like the island where the final confrontation will take place, but the man we see at the end is actually called *God* Facer. I wonder if there's a connection between the two words being reverses of each other.