Chapter 1

* Cover Page
* First Page

## Chapter Guide

**I'll Play with You, Punk** (遊 (あそ) んでやるよ、どチンピラ, *Asonde Yaru-yo, Dochinpira*?) is the first chapter of Yuji Kaku's *Ayashimon*.

## Summary

Maruo Kaido is a young man with superhuman strength who is unable to find work nor excitement in fights due to his freakish power, which he acquired due to his dream of one day living the same way the protagonists of his favorite manga did. Such chance arrives when a girl named Urara, an Ayashimon, asks him to become her yakuza underling. After protecting her from the Uwan Family, and experiencing enyojment from fighting Ayashimon, Maruo agrees to serve Urara and thrusts himself into the world of yokai, yakuza, and one-on-one duels.

## Plot Details

On February 1992 at Shinjuku, the yakuza from across the Kanto region gather together for a funeral for Kio, the former chairman of the Enma Syndicate. Later, a man announces to the yakuza dining that, despite their conflicting interest with each other, they must quickly choose Kio's successor since his death presents a problem for not only Shinjuku's underworld but for all Ayashimon.

Maruo Kaido, a young man with superhuman strength, tries to find work as a wrestler, a sumo, and as a pastry worker but ultimately ends up getting kicked out of all three due to his overwhelming strength. While sitting down feeling depressed, Maruo is confronted by a delinquent who decides to pick a fight with him after getting in his way to his job. As the delinquent starts to punch Maruo, Maruo pays him no mind, since his punches were too weak to have any effect on him, and becomes envious to learn that even a weak person like him has a job. Maruo then grabs the delinquent by the shoulder to compliment him for having a job but unintentional ends up breaking his collarbone, causing the deliquent to scream in agony. Having done so, the delinquent's friend recognizes him as Maruo Kaido, the young man who is rumored to have single-handedly defeated an entire school and is capable of lifting cars. After asking why he was out here, Maruo explains that he got expelled from his school and is looking for a job that is preferably an occupation where he can put his strength to good use by fighting people, such as protecting a young girl from scary grown men as an example, to which the delinquent replied saying that the job he is looking for doesn't exist. Maruo then suddenly sees the example he gave coming true upon noticing a girl fleeing from a yakuza group and instinctively steps in to guard the girl. The yakuza charges at Maruo for getting in their way but end up being easily defeated by the young man. After becoming dissatisfied with the fight not being enough to give him a thrill, Maruo wonders to himself if it was pointless to being strong. With the yakuza defeated, the girl asks that Maruo come with her as she flees. The yakuza sees the two making their escape from them but are told by their boss, Uwan, that they will be able to track them down after recognizing the girl's scent. After being stared at by the delinquent Maruo met earlier, Uwan becomes annoyed and reprimands the the young man with a sinister morphed face.

After getting some distance away from the gang, the girl boldly orders Maruo to sit as she compliments him on his impressive strength he displayed as he protected her. She then introduces herself as Urara and demanded that he come and work for her, which stuns Maruo after hearing that he could finally get a job. However, his attitude soon changes after Urara explains that she wanted him to accept the sakazuki, a ceremony where a yakuza and a boss official become affiliated with each other. Maruo rejects the idea of becoming a yakuza and tells her that he wants to use his superhuman strength to become a manga protagonist, elaborating that he trained himself at a young age to gain enhanced strength like the manga protagonists he was inspired. However, Maruo expresses how he has given up on this dream after coming to realize that having overwhelming strength isn't necessary for a human living a normal life. Urara then becomes stunned to realize that Maruo is human and not one of "them", much to Maruo's confusion.

Maruo then suddenly notices the yakuza gang up on the walls above Urara and jumps in to move her out of the way. Uwan introduces the gang to Maruo as the Uwan Family, a yakzua group are affiliated with the Enma Syndicate, and asks if he thought that he was starting to think of them as "something else" after the stunt they pulled. Urara tells the yakuza that they have no right to harm Maruo since he is a human outside of the feeding zone according to the rules. Confused as to what she was talking about, Urara informs Maruo that she and the yakuza gang are Ayashimon, which is proven as the Uwan Family undo their human forms, leaving Maruo in awe at the sight. Uwan, with his human face undone, tells Urara that they aren't worried about the rules and are prepared to kill the boy.

Urara states how she feels unimpressed with their talk and exaggerates the great after arrogantly looking down on them. She then tells Maruo to run but unexpectedly hears him yelling out that he did not want to get his hopes up. After being sent crashing into a car from a surprise attack by one of the Ayashimon, Maruo flashes back into his life to when he decided to train himself to become like the manga protagonists he had read about as a child and how he has come to realize that he is too strong to enjoy a thrilling fight against anyone he meets. Despite being injured from the Ayashimon's attack, Maruo smiles with excitement since it has been awhile since someone caused him to feel pain. Maruo then picks up the car he crashed into, which shocks Urara, and explains to the Uwan Family that he is not an insane person but just a human looking for a fight that excites him. After throwing the car at the yakuza gang, Maruo is challenged into a one-on-one fight against Uwan in his yokai form. Maruo reacts with excitement and makes the first move by using an imitated version of Goku's signature technique, the Kamehameha, and decapitates Uwan. Not wanting to lose the sensation, Maruo challenges all the yakuza members into a fight and defeats them.

Having finally experienced an enjoyable fight in such a long time, Maruo apologizes to Urara for his earlier rejection of performing a sakazuki with her and takes her up on her offer to serve under her as a yakuza, much to Urara's satisfaction. However, instead of performing a sakazuki, Urara decides to have the two of them exchange a taste of their own blood to make their partnership official. With the ceremony complete, Urara tells Maruo that they will make their way towards Shinjuku's Kabukicho where Ayashimon gather around and tells him that she plans on ruling over the district after its former owner, Chairman Kio, passed away. Before she could explain how Kio's death led to a distortion in balance and power, Maruo interrupts her after becoming excited to learn that the denizens there are all allowed to fight one another in one-on-one duels.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Maruo Kaido
* Urara
* Uwan
* Amikiri
* Onigama
* Roujinbi

## Chapter Notes

* A funeral is held for Chairman Kio.
* The Ayashimon gather to discuss Kio's successor.
* Maruo Kaido tries and fails to get a job.
* The Uwan Family chases after Urara.
* Urara encounters Maruo and offers him a position as a yakuza underling.
* Maruo gets excited after experiencing pain for the first time in awhile.
* Maruo fights and defeats the Uwan family.
* The Urara Family is formed after Maruo accepts Urara's offer to serve under her.

## Trivia

* In the official English translation, the year on the first page is kept ambiguous as 199X.

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