Chapter 38

## Chapter Guide

**Pursuer And Pursued**(追う者、追われる者, *おうもの、おわれるもの, oumono、owarerumono)* is the 38th chapter of the Munou Na Nana manga, written by Looseboy, and illustrated by Iori Furuya. This chapter marks the beginning of volume 6.

## Meaning of the title

Nana is pursuing Tsuruoka while being pursued by Koharu.

## Synopsis

Nana breaks her phone. Moe sees that as treason and tries to contact Jin. Nana managed to steal Moe's phone before. Later on, Hikaru apologies for the landslide he caused without mentioning Nana. Koharu wonders why they are going back to the mainland. She tells Nana that there were murders on the island. The next morning, Nana dreams about the events before her parents' deaths. Koharu wakes her up by ransacking her room looking for evidence that Nana killed people. Koharu attacks Nana with a knife and Nana successfully deflects Koharu's hands. Koharu implies that Nana is a murderer and provokes her. Nana tries to tell the others about Koharu attacking her. However, Koharu had an alibi. She was talking with Moe the whole morning.

## Long Summary

Nanao, Kyouya, Nana, Michiru, and Fuuko are in the cover.

### Nana's betrayal

Nana broke her phone in the last chapter. Moe gets angry at Nana and tries to contact Tsuruoka to announce to him what she considers "treason". However, Nana already managed to steal Moe's device. Unable to get her device back, Moe complains to Nana. She thinks that it's unfair to try to be a good person now, Nana has killed too many people. Nana says that she's a good person and that she's gonna let Moe contact her grandma if she does as she says. Moe changes her opinion of Nana and thinks she's still a bad person.

### Yesterday's events

Hikaru apologizes for causing a landslide. [Nana forced him not to mention her or else she'd kill brutally kill him.] His classmates laughed and accepted his apologies. Nana said that she must have had a bad dream.

### Koharu's appearance

Koharu worries that if something like this happened on the mainland, it would be all over the news. Moguo asks her if she isn't happy about going to the mainland. She tells him that she is happy, but surprised. She thinks that there is a meaning to their isolation from talentless people. Nana realizes that some of the talented are aware of their abilities. Seiya tries to make Koharu reveals her talent but she keeps her abilities hidden. Nana believes that this kind of talented people is the hardest to handle. Kyouya declares that people show their talents too much. He approves Koharu's mindset. Seiya and Moguo point out that Kyouya took off his shirt and allowed himself to be cut which revealed his talent. Koharu ends the conversation by telling everyone to be careful when they return to the mainland. She whispers to Nana: "There were murders on the island."

### Nana's questioning

Nana lets Moe send a message to her grandma and then takes the device away from her. Moe asks Nana what she is going to do now. Nana plans on asking Tsuruoka to explain things to her again. Nana says to Moe that she doesn't want to quit the mission, but she wants to know if it's okay to consider all of the talented as enemies of humanity, and why did Tsuruoka transfer them to the mainland. Jin appears in front of them, which scares Moe and says: "Will Tsuruoka really save Michiru?" Moe asks Jin who is he, and he says that he's a talented who's just passing by. He adds that Nana and he tried to kill each other multiple times. Nana admits to Moe that Jin is their senior. Nana says that she isn't worried about Michiru because Tsuruoka doesn't make promises he can't?keep. Moe knows that Tsuruoka shot Michiru but knows that Nana is going to be furious if she tells her. Moe knows that she has to kill Nana anyways because she showed signs of betrayal. However, Moe doesn't think she'll be able to kill Nana.

Jin asks Nana if she's going to stop killing people. Nana says that more than that, she wants to know about the government's motives. Nana tells Moe to stop panicking. Nana adds that she can't stop being a murderer after all she has done. Moe looks confused. Jin explains that Nana has started to pursue the real enemy, but she is still being pursued. Moe still doesn't understand. Moe asks if she can allow herself to be influenced by Nana. Nana smiles at Moe and hopes that she will continue to be her assistant.

### Nana's dream

Nana dreams about still being a kid eating with her parents. Nana realizes that it's a dream. So she knows her parents are going to be killed right after this. According to Tsuruoka, a talented individual opposed to the work of her father did this. Nana then realizes that Michiru was right and her room is clean. Her parents cleaned it for her. Nana starts crying.

### Koharu made her first move

A shadow appears and attacks Nana, and it is Koharu, who made a strange comment to Nana before. Nana wakes up in shock. Koharu tells Nana that it's time to go to school. She thinks Nana sleeps too late. Nana realizes that Koharu ransacked her room. Nana asks Koharu what is she doing here. She answers that she's looking for something, like the poison she used on Tsunekichi or the blade she stabbed Ishii with. Koharu suspects that Nana may have killed Michiru.

Nana tells Koharu to stop saying things like that. She'll also call for help. Koharu answers that no one wants to be involved in trouble anymore. Koharu was waiting to see what happens but Hikaru caused an accident. She adds that Nana is lurking in everyone's shadow. Koharu almost manages to stab Nana but she deflects it. Koharu wanted to know if in addition to being able to read minds, Nana could be able to react quickly. Koharu is surprised and she declares that she underestimated Nana. Koharu thinks that people were killed because they underestimated Nana. Nana asks Koharu what she wants. Koharu immediately figures out that this means Nana can't always use her mind-reading ability or that Nana has another talent and she's hiding it. This makes Nana realize that Koharu is bad news for her. Nana says that Koharu is different than the other talented people. Nana and Koharu think of each other as high-risk elements disrupting the talented individuals at school.

### Koharu has an alibi

Nana thinks there is no need to try to kill Koharu. She's being attacked and her room is ransacked. She has all the evidence required to prove that Koharu is strange. Nana wants to involve the other, she thinks she just needs to run to the class and denounce Koharu. Nana entered the class shouting for help still in her nightwear. When they asked what had happened, Nana told them exactly what had just happened. She woke up and someone attacked her with a knife. While everyone is surprised, Kyouya asks Nana who did this. Nana says that Koharu did it. Nana is stunned. She sees Koharu and Moe together. She wonders if Koharu's talent is teleportation. Moe defends Koharu. She says that Koharu has been talking to her about fluffy dogs during the whole morning. Nana is even more surprised by this statement. In the last panel of the chapter, Koharu looks confused and asks: "Did I do something, leader?"

## Locations

Hikaru's house

Classroom

Nana's room

Nana's house when she was young: dining room

Nana's house when she was young: bedroom

Hallway

## Characters in Order of Appearance

### Cover

* Nanao

* kyouya

* Nana

* Michiru

* Fuuko

### Chapter

* Moe
* Nana
* Hikaru
* Moguo
* Moguo's henchmen
* Koharu
* Seiya
* Kyouya
* Jin
* Tsuruoka (Nana thinking about him)
* Nana's parents