Chapter 94

**Chapter 94** is the ninety-fourth chapter of the *Dead Mount Death Play* manga.

## Official Blurb

Polka, Majiri, and the others arrive at the warehouse [sic]—and receive an explosive welcome!

## Synopsis

Outside the entrance of Arataya General Hospital, Xiaoyu Lei picks up on the sound of people fighting inside the building—and what sounds like the howl of a wild dog, despite the urban location. Misaki Sakimiya mentions that the people might be her family, though she has no such inkling into the bestial howl. Misgivings unremitted, Corpse God recommends that Sayo stay behind in a karaoke place they passed—but this becomes moot as a van plows through the hospital courtyard's fence, its passengers opening fire on the group with suppressed handguns.

Xiaoyu shields Sayo and injures one of the shooters with three kunai while herding Sayo toward cover; Corpse God and Majiri follow whereas Misaki attacks the van driver through his window. Majiri says that the shooters could be targeting one of their group or the Agakuras, since she does not know who they are. Xiaoyu believes this; had Majiri desired to kill their group, she would have no need of an ambush.

Misaki announces that she has neutralized the men in the van. Corpse God's first thought is to restrain them, but the late Framrodia Byandiraz bids his friend look toward the rooftop, where an unblinking man muttering about orders to kill "Himuro-san's" [sic] enemy is readying an RPG launcher. He fires. Polka Shinoyama and Fram behold the incoming warhead without the alarm that causes Corpse God to instinctively invoke Rakabenia's aid; Rakabenia catches the warhead with a web that causes it to explode midair, allowing the group to rush into the hospital while more vans screech into the yard. Beside the man with the rocket launcher, a man in a medical mask orders the men in the van, over phone, not to recklessly take chase. The targets, he cautions, have "tricks up their sleeves."

Rakabenia enforces the hospital windows with magic spiderwebs before disappating. Corpse God's group sprints further into the heart of hospital, not stopping until Misaki confirms via her bats that armed men are gathered outside the building's back door. Corpse God says that because summoning Rakabenia used up almost all his remaining magic, he will head upstairs—where the spiritual presence is thickest—and replenish his power so that he can fend off the men and convert the hospital into a sanctuary (temple). Majiri murmurs, "...Above, you say?" with a thoughtful expression that shifts into a a light smile when she tells Corpse God that she will remain behind to ensure her siblings do not mistake them as hostiles. Assured that Misaki will guard Sayo in his absence, Corpse God ascends the stairs.

In another corridor, Momoya Agakura asks his siblings if the sound they just heard was an explosion. It was, but the Agakuras have their own imminent threat to deal with: the beast, whose freshly regrown fist Yumeji Agakura barely avoids. Momoya looks at the forearm that he had severed and spares a moment to appreciate that he is once again battling an "uncuttable opponent." That Momoya has fought something akin to this beast seems a little extraordinary to Dahlia Agakura, so Momoya concedes that the previous opponent could have been playing a magic trick.

Working from the presumption that the beast is still beholden to the law of conservation of mass, Kana Agakura describes how her steel wires loosened around the beast as it healed and hypothesizes that this 'healing' or 'regrowing' process utilizes resources from the rest of its body. The beast lunges; she lassos its regrown forearm with wires that sever multiple fingers, tumbling out of its way, and proposes that they can defeat it through attrition.

Over in the alley used by both the Agakuras and Corpse God's group, Katashiro stops at the sound of a rocket launching and reconsiders entering the fenced hospital on yon hilltop. It occurs to him that the Shibuya mediator might be suspicious should he meddle, given the "no meddling" discussion that took place during yesterday's meeting. Congratulating himself on such scintillating insight, he thus begins to pace: should he return to Akihabara, or proceed and damn the consequences?

The latter, Katashiro decides, striding forward to look for the missing Akihabara livestreamers Zukuzuku-Bonbon. Not that he knows them, he muses; he is more familiar with horror game livestreamers like the Great General Eaves or that cosplayer Proppen. This thought of Proppen specifically reminds him of something as he hops the fence of the back courtyard, but whatever it is matters little compared to the men in whose idling midst he lands. In any other context one could hope they were military cosplayers, with their ammunition straps and high-grade weapons—but these are dead meant for a deathlier play indeed.

## Trivia

* **Possible Error:** "Himuro," seen on page 9 of the English individual release, may be a misspelling of Kuon Higuro's family name.
* Framrodia mentions that he has read about "[rocket launchers] in the data about this world."

### Referbacks

* Momoya failed to cut Misaki in Chapter 48.
* Rakabenia is the then-unnamed pseudo human-arachnid spirit who assisted Corpse God in fighting Civil A. Sabaramond during the Shinjuku Battle, c.f. Chapter 79.