Screw the rules… – Chapter 9, Act 2, Strip 67

Well, this is odd.

Normally, I would have said that Megumi is perfectly right with this kind of set-up. Three fujoshi listening in on two guys, and hearing lots of ambiguous dialogue – dialogue that can be interpreted in a sexual as well as a perfectly innocent manner – would normally always end up being revealed as bait and switch. She had every right to expect to be presented with a perfectly innocent and harmless, trivial scene upon opening that door. And, yeah, making yamakake soba was a pretty well-educated guess at what could potentially be going on between Hiroki and Youichi. Anything actually non-innocent going on would go against iron-clad rules of comedy!

But…apparently something was going on that wasn’t the production of yamakake soba. Something, on top of that, that justifies Megumi blushing very heavily and talking very quietly.

What is going on here? Could we be witnessing iron-clad rules of comedy going down the drain? Alongside some rules of decency that are no longer iron-clad, but still…uh, timber-clad? I guess with warships timber-clad was the step below iron-clad. Let’s go with that. We might see iron-clad rules of comedy and timber-clad rules of decency being disregarded!

Find out what happened on Thursday!

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