Killing a Domineering Grannie

**Killing a Domineering Grannie** -Chinese title *Cìshā zuì qiáng āpó* (刺杀最强阿婆)- is the fifth episode of Scissor Seven Season 1 (刺客伍六七).

## Synopsis

Seven shape-shifts into a cardboard box and contends with a stabby, swindling fruit vendor whose grandson got a bad haircut from Seven's shears.

## Detailed Plot

Grannie Chen is selling oranges on the streets of Chicken Island. A young man walking by asks for the price of the oranges, but Grannie Chen offers him to taste an orange first. The young man accepts and says it tastes awful. He again asks how much they cost, and she says that they are  ¥200 a pound. When the young man tells her that they are overpriced, Grannie Chen weighs the orange he ate and tells him he owes her ¥200. When the young man accuses Grannie Chen of running a scam, Grannie Chen kicks over her basket of oranges and falls to the ground, crying out about how the young man hit her and broke her arm and leg. A crowd soon forms, prompting the young man to resignedly buy all of her oranges.

While Grannie Chen laughs and walks away, Seven, transformed into a box, calls her evil. When Seven begins following her (still as a box), Grannie Chen turns around and spots him. Seven is nervous she saw through his transformation until she flips him over and checks to see if he's empty or not. When she realizes he is, she starts to walk away before turning around, flipping him back over, stomping him flat, and folding him up painfully. She then places him in her bag and carries him away, hoping to sell him.

Grannie Chen then goes to pick up her grandson from school. While there, she speaks with two delinquents, reminding them to watch out for her grandson. While waiting for school to end, a dog passes by Grannie Chen and starts begging for food. Grannie Chen then takes out a bone, waves it a few times, and pretends to throw it, prompting the dog to run in the direction she "threw" the bone. While Grannie Chen thinks about wanting to beat some manners into the delinquents, Seven reaches an arm out of the bag and is about to cut her neck with his scissors when the dog returns. The dog grabs the bag (accidentally biting Seven's genitals along the way) and tries to run, but Grannie Chen grabs it before he gets away. They tug the bag back and forth until Seven transforms back into a person, breaking the bag and kicking the dog away.

While Seven checks on his injured genitals, Grannie Chen takes her hairpin out and stabs Seven in the arm just as he's about to ask for a Band-Aid. When blood starts spurting out, Seven covers the wound with his hand and asks for two Band-Aids. Grannie Chen threatens to stab him again if he doesn't pay for the bag he just ripped. When Seven says he's broke, she stabs him in his other arm. Seven then comedically starts switching between which wound he covers up over and over again, until ultimately giving up and letting them bleed out. As Seven tries to walk away in defeat, Grannie Chen grabs him and starts asking for money again, threatening to kill him if he doesn't pay. Seven starts thinking about how much he underestimated her when he spots his scissors on the pavement far away. He makes them fly at Grannie Chen, but Grannie Chen, seeing the scissors, puts Seven in the scissors' path, which then stabs him in the chest.

Seven spits up blood and starts crawling away again, but Grannie Chen stabs him in the behind, threatening to do it again if he doesn't pay her. At this moment, the elementary school gets out, and Grannie Chen joyfully walks away to pick her grandson, XiaoLong Chen, up. Seven struggles to stand up and jokes that he was saved by the bell. When Grannie Chen notices XiaoLong's haircut, however, she is angered and demands to know who cut his hair. XiaoLong points to Seven.

Furious, Grannie starts to button her top and Seven remembers giving XiaoLong a haircut. He then realizes that XiaoLong's father, Mr. Chen had hired Seven to kill Grannie Chen. Grannie Chen then rips her clothes off, revealing a skin-tight black leather suit and whip underneath. Grannie Chen then proceeds to beat Seven up with her whip repeatedly. The crowd repeatedly comments about how sexual the fight is, including the delinquents, who run away.

Grannie Chen starts putting her clothes back on, warning Seven never to mess with XiaoLong again when Dai Bo is seen holding a crossbow. He monologues about how Seven is a terrible assassin and that he needs to find his enemies' weaknesses in order to kill them. Dai Bo claims that humans' greatest weakness is love before shooting the crossbow off at XiaoLong. Grannie Chen dives in front of XiaoLong to protect him, praying that her family doesn't die for her sins. Before the arrows hit her, however, Seven uses his scissors to slice them out of the air. Grannie Chen seems surprised when she realizes that it was Seven's scissors that cut the arrows out of the air.

When Grannie Chen and XiaoLong arrive back at Mr. Chen's house, Mr. Chen is seen holding Accidental Fatality Insurance papers. Grannie Chen tells Mr. Chen about Seven and claims that if she sees him again, she'll skin him alive. Mr. Chen is surprised to see her home and crumples the insurance papers behind his back. Back at the Dai Bo Hair Salon, Dai Bo warns Seven that if he keeps failing his missions, they won't be able to afford rent. Seven merely replies that he doesn't understand people.

## Characters

* Grannie Chen
* Young man
* Seven
* Young delinquents
* XiaoLong Chen
* Mr. Chen
* Dai Bo