Chapter 11

## Chapter Guide

**Aren't We Family?** (〝親 (おや) 子 (こ) 〞だろ, *"Oyako" Daro*?) is the eleventh chapter of *Ayashimon*.

## Summary

After escaping from the Enma Syndicate with help from Ten, Urara reflects on her actions and apologizes to both Maruo and Ten for the way she has mistreated them. Despite the apologize, Urara hears Maruo's commitment to helping her and his desire to get back at Doppo after receiving his first lose. Knowing that he is committed to following her, Urara regains back her determination to settle the score with the Enma Syndicate and gives Maruo an irezumi on his back, as well as extending her own. The three then meet with the Todoroki Alliance as their next plan of action.

## Plot Details

As she tries to outrun her pursers, Urara notices that her time maintaining her yokai form is almost up. She then uses Ten's advice to escape through the Shinjuku Subnade and manages to lose them after Ten uses his yojutsu to have him, Urara, and Maruo phase through the ceilings and land underground at an unused subway tunnel. After being complimented by Urara for having a handy power, Ten sees Urara falling down after exhausting herself and hears Maruo, barley awake, requesting for manga to read. He then moves around the underground malls to get the things his exhausted friends need to recover.

After waking up from a dream about her father, Urara sees Ten excited to see her awake and thanks him after learning that he looked after her and Maruo for two weeks. She then finds out from the newspaper that the Enma Syndicate had the police cover up their gang violence incident and hears that Ten found out that Hashihime was no longer employed in one of her current jobs after calling her work phone number, which made her become disheartened after they had assumed the worse had happened to her.

Though he did not know what her situation with Kio was, Ten suggests to Urara to quit her plans for revenge since the Enma Syndicate is too powerful and influential. After seeing Urara stand up, Ten thinks that he has angered her with his statement and repeatedly apologizes in panic. However, he looks to see Urara on her knees and apologizing to both him and Maruo for the way she has been using them for her own ambitions. Looking back on what Doppo said about her not knowing her father enough to avenge him, Urara realizes that, due to her conflicting emotions ever since her incarnation, she wanted to find someone or something to vent her frustrations out on and blames herself for Hashihime's fate after being arrogant in her approach.

After hearing her reflect on her actions, Maruo gets up to give Urara a manga book to read, thinking that it will help cheer her up, and asks that she not lower her head since she is his boss. He then makes his apologize for not living up to her expectations as her bodyguard and states his understanding of where she was coming in terms of having conflicting relationships with fathers, which he thinks manga helps to ease the pain. However, seeing as how Urara helped him to move away from his despair, Maruo tells her that he is willingly to help her settle things with her father and believes that there shouldn't be any cold formalities between them since they became a family ever since they exchanged sakazuki cups.

Ten also agrees to help them and is requested by Maruo to sketch a tattoo on his back with a marker as a sign of his determination to Urara. As this happens, Urara smiles, removes her kimono, and tells Maruo that he would have to be very committed to bearing their yakuza families crest, to which he assures her that he will since he seeks to get back at Doppo after losing to him. Urara also states her determination in moving forward, engraves an irezumi tattoo onto his back, as well as extending her own, and asks for Maruo and Ten to come with her as she prepares to confront the Enma Syndicate.

Seeing as how they need to expand their power to face the Enma Syndicate, instead of moving around in the shadows, Urara decides that the first thing they should do is meet with the Todoroki Alliance. After approaching them, Urara, Maruo, and Ten are asked by the biker gang's leader as to why they were in their way.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Urara
* Ten
* Nobusuma
* Hishaku Watari
* Maruo Kaido
* Kio (dream)
* Doppo Akari (flashback)
* Hashihime (flashback)

## Chapter Notes

* Urara's time in her yokai form is close to ending.
* Ten reveals his powers to phase through ceilings after using it to help in Urara's and Maruo's successful escape from the Enma Syndicate.
* Maruo and Urara recuperate in an unused subway tunnel for two weeks.
* The events caused by the Enma Syndicate is covered up by the police.
* Urara and Ten assume the worse about Hashihime's fate.
* Urara apologizes to Maruo and Ten for using them for her own ambitions.
* Maruo declares his commitment to helping Urara.
	+ Urara engraves an irezumi onto Maruo's back, as well as extending her own tattoos.
* Ten happily agrees to continue assisting Urara and Maruo.
* Urara, Maruo, and Ten decide to meet with the Todoroki Alliance.

## Navigation

 Volume 3 | 17  •  18  •  19  •  20  •  21  •  22  •  23  •  24  •  25

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