The Fable – Episode 13 discussion

The best thing Sunagawa ever did is put bullets into that guy who almost raped Misaki. Nobody will miss him. Though Sunagawa is now focused on finding out more about The Fable, which isn’t good.

As for our other least favorite criminal…why didn’t Kojima just listen to Ebihara? All he did was cause an even bigger mess his aniki had to bail him out of, and Ebihara even had to get out of the hospital just to clean up after him.

I’m actually kind of curious about the woman Kojima murdered, a “respectable” woman who wasn’t all that respectable? Was she involved with the Yakuza somehow? Though Misaki really IS a respectable woman and he had no business getting her involved in something like this.

All this was because Kojima had frikkin’ ED of all things? He choked a woman to death, spent 15 years in prison, and was turned off of women in general so he had to act out all his frustration by doubling-down on the only thing he knows how to be…a troublesome Yakuza? Yikes.

But Kojima shouldn’t worry, Ebihara’s got his back, and there’s a doctor on his way…well, more like a clean-up guy to take care of his body after Ebihara shoots him in the head. Ebihara didn’t want to kill his little bro, but Kojima went too far. At least he died thinking his bro was still on his side, I guess.

Figures in desperation and panic and no way to get to her apartment, Misaki would show up at the Satos’ for help. Even if the trauma of the nights event finally caught up with her and made her faint after the bath…leaving Akira and Yoko to carry her naked body to bed. And now Misaki is going to have to live with Akira having seen her naked, as if she didn’t have enough happen to her that night.

Ebihara may have killed Kojima, but the least he can do is give his little bro a proper burial. And the guy who sold Kojima a gun is probably lucky that Ebihara needs him to take care of the body.

I can’t wait for the next punchline of the Jackal’s crazy love life with Ai.

A life for a life, that’s basically the Yakuza way of making peace, and it clears the air between Ebihara and Sunagawa…or it would if Sunagawa wasn’t more interested in The Fable, but he at least has enough sense to realize the deeper he pries into the topic the more trouble it’ll be worth. And he should NEVER get involved with Misaki again.

I knew Misaki would love Akira’s Misaki doodles…if only he had stopped before he’d drawn her naked and getting carried by him and Yoko, complete with actually drawing her nipples. Poor Misaki.

Ebihara tells Kuro not to talk about The Fable and immediately afterwards he’s grilling Takahashi and Kickboxer over what happened and how cool Fable is. But at least now he truly understands what his Sensei was trying to tell him about working unknown in the shadows. Maybe.