Chapter 47

**Chapter 47** is the forty-seventh chapter of the *Dead Mount Death Play* manga.

## Official Blurb

As the battle heats up with both sides revealing the tricks they had hidden up their sleeves, a key figure re-enters the playing field.

## Synopsis

In the Torture Building, Sayo Shinoyama asks Corpse God if they should also explain the situation to Xiaoyu Lei. Corpse God agrees to fill him and Misaki Sakimiya as soon as every one returns; in the meantime, Miyabi Hosorogi indicates the two of them need to talk.

In the warehouse hideout, Kuon Higuro recalls his superior's instructions to report anything preternatural Higuro might witness—anything that appears to bend the laws of nature. He considers Misaki standing whole before him, and her death he witnessed beforehand; he considers the possibility she is 'part-machine' like Xiaoyu, or pulling a Phantom Solitaire-level trick, but either way realizes reporting these events will be his top priority should he survive them.

Takumi Kuruya stares at Momoya Agakura from his overhead perch, taken aback by how long Momoya's legs are. Misaki quips that Momoya might be trying to seduce her with his "model's legs," causing Momoya to recall his sisters' advice to "confuse [his] opponent, even if that means resorting to seduction" since they consider him to be weak. Instead of seduction, he swings his blade; although he hardly moves from his position, the blade nearly slashes Xiaoyu in the blink of an eye.

Misaki rushes forward and almost manages to plant her crowbar in the underside of Momoya's jaw; he dodges, and she in turn somersaults out of his blade's reach. However, he takes a step forward, swings again—and this time his blade cuts into her right leg, so deep that one would think he had severed everything below her knee. Yet Misaki remains upright, and remains cheerful when she asks Xiaoyu whether they should take on Momoya together or if he would prefer to fight one-on-one. In lieu of Xiaoyu, Momoya chimes in that he would prefer fighting two opponents at once. This devolves into Misaki and Momoya chatting at each other; meanwhile, Higuro processes the fact he could have sworn Misaki *was* cut in her leg, and Xiaoyu becomes cognizant once more that he cannot hear Misaki's heartbeat.

With rain continuing to fall, and with their friends still yet to return, Sayo and Corpse God's conversation has returned to vampires, vampire larva, and differences between the two. Corpse God informs her that Misaki, who is a vampire larva, currently may be transform into a bat and possesses augmented regenerative power.

Momoya and Misaki, meanwhile, have returned to trading blows. This time Xiaoyu attempts to intercept one of Momoya's kicks with his finger extensions, only to again take a backseat when Momoya stomps on them. As he watches the two fight, he realizes Momoya's long legs and particular footwork *do* confuse his opponents, per the 'seduction' comment; moreover, everything about him, his jacket design included, is meant to give the illusion his limbs can stretch.

A brief lull in the fight has Momoya asking what Misaki will "show him next." After declaring she will pay him back for "splitting [her] belly open," she decides she will copy Momoya's own style. Momoya takes this and her warm-up to mean she will throw her crowbar as a distracting prelude to another kick, a prediction which is technically correct; nevertheless, he fails to predict she will *throw her crowbar with her severed hands*.

The crowbar cuts into Momoya's torso—finally, a hit, even if Misaki is disappointed she failed to cleave him in half. Still, she laughs as her 'severed' hands—in fact winged like bats—*fly* the crowbar back to her, and rejoin her body. Momoya touches his own hand to his bloody wound; upon realizing that "that thing" lacked any centrifugal force, and concluding it cut into him with its own will, he asks if Misaki is Solitaire's apprentice.

In Jirotarou Takanosu's office, Solitaire clarifies to Jirotarou that they are playing at a table "already full of bad cards." Since no one can win with a hand full of jokers, what might higher-level players do next? As Solitaire suggests, "they must scrutinize each other's poker faces."

Meanwhile, Tsubaki Iwanome receives a telephone call in one of HQ's empty meeting rooms, having retreated there with Kōzaburō Arase. The caller's number is unlisted, and his voice—when Iwanome answers—sounds *off*, as if synthesized or modified via a voice changer. The caller chides Iwanome for not heeding his advice to regularly change his phone and number; Iwanome, in response, grows very still.

Sayo and Corpse God contemplate the sight before them: a dead white bird, sat in front of a smartphone—and Hosorogi's pencil, jammed into the bid's larynx. The Corpse God remarks that he has the bird's permission to use its carcass and will give it a proper memorial service later, though it was already dead when he found it. It is thanks to the bird, after all, that Hosorogi can properly speak out loud.

Slowly, hesitantly, Iwanome asks, "...Hosorogi-san?"