Chapter 106

**Chapter 106** is the one-hundred-and-sixth chapter of the *Dead Mount Death Play* manga.

## Official Blurb

Katashiro attempts to talk things out with the wolf boy, but the child has no intentions of doing so and launches into an attack against the mediator! With onlookers like the amazing Assassin-Killer Zaki, what else is there for a guy to do than to pull out all the stops?

## Synopsis

An informant calls Gioacchino Soldati with news that Katashiro is in Shibuya. Gioacchino wonders whether Polka Shinoyama survived the rocket launched at him because the rocket was a dud or if he possesses something special, and whether Katashiro has gone to Shibuya to investigate the matter. If that is the case, then "Signore Katashiro [is] a real pain in the ass."

Katashiro tells the male werewolf that the others will release the female werewolf if he can beat Katashiro in a fight. Xiaoyu Lei objects, but Sayo Shinoyama, though she does not release the female werewolf from her arms, says she did not intend to hold the girl hostage in the first place. Katashiro also tells the werewolf his name and invites the werewolf to do likewise in the hope that they can avoid a fight.

The werewolf answers with violence and Katashiro responds in the same language. This is the first time that Misaki Sakimiya and Majiri Agakura have seen Katashiro fight, with Xiaoyu only now realizing that this is *the* Katashiro in action. Secretly pleased by their reactions, Katashiro feels more confident that he can easily take the werewolf down. Then the werewolf takes a swipe at his face that he only narrowly dodges, bracing his arms just in time to block the savage kick that follows. He flings the werewolf away and plays cool, even while his thoughts race along the lines of "scared," "dangerous," and "please tell me you're at maximum strength."

The werewolf's next series of attacks are so blindingly fast that Corpse God worriedly calls out Katashiro's name. Katashiro, a liar, lies that he is not in trouble before fishing for seven dice from his pocket. Xiaoyu, a TRPG-player, spares a moment to be impressed that Katashiro has a D4 and D20 before fretting over his duty to protect Sayo from any chance of ensuing collateral damage. Guilt courses through him over Sayo's arm wound, for he blames himself for failing to use Urdwigia's power from the start. If he had, perhaps she might never have come to harm and he would not be a failure of a bodyguard. Majiri side-eyes him while wearing a knowing smile.

Majiri tells Corpse God that she is excited to observe Katashiro because it is a lucky thing to witness another person's abilities, even those of one's situational allies, because they could become one's enemies in the future. Katashiro overhears this while fending off the werewolf. It had not occurred to him that he might someday become Zaki's enemy, but now that it has, he is certain that he "definitely [doesn't] want to do this." Nevertheless, he tells Misaki that the feeling is mutual, and, to Corpse GOd if not all present, that he will charm them since they have included him in such fascinating hallucinations.

So saying, he kicks his D6 at the werewolf and, when it dodges the die, flicks another die at it, causing the D6 to ricochet off it and then the werewolf's head before it rolls to a stop by Misaki's feet and settles on the number "one," as Katashiro confirms, releasing the werewolf almost as soon as he has caught him. "A nat one. Critical fail."

Corpse God neither understands this nor why Katashiro let the werewolf go. Xiaoyu explains that he did not because he rolled a critical failure. "In other words...it means this is all a game to him."

## Trivia

* Katashiro reveals that his name is not one his parents gave him.
* In tabletop-RPG games, rolling a critical failure (a one) means that whatever action the player is attempting is guaranteed to fail. If your character is trying to catch a werewolf, the game master might ask you to roll a die to see if you succeed. If you roll a one, then you fail to catch the werewolf.
* Xiaoyu being a fan of tabletop-RPG games may explain why, when he was attempting to make sense of the talk of dragons and the sounds of rattling bones and a pencil writing in Chapter 22, he thought Corpse God and his friends might be playing such a game.

### Referbacks

* The attempted murder of Polka via rocket launcher occurred in Chapter 94.