I guess negotiations with the Jiangnan Shipyard have broken down. Either the three Scotsmen couldn’t meet the shipyard’s price, or the shipyard couldn’t meet the Scotsmen’s deadline. Whatever it was, no giant ice-breaker in this strip, at least not the naval kind.
And no Scotsmen in this strip, either. I have no idea where they went, but instead of them Akane and Megumi are back. That’s nice, we haven’t seen them in a while. And Megumi seems pretty much in charge, while Akane seems to be tied-up otherwise at the moment. >_>
Megumi aggreed, it seems, with the three Scotsmen regarding the need for a giant ice-breaker, but she had a different kind of ice-breaker in mind. Work smart, not hard – don’t bother with a giant marvel of engineering when a few well-chosen molecules will do the trick. Between stuffing Akane in a barrel and spiking a bowl of ice-cream (to be served to two teenagers) with drugs and alcohol, Megumi seems a bit vicious today…but that’s just because she so desperately wants this to succeed, and the thought of anybody messing it up again at the last moment pains her. This is about BL, after all, not just some simple matter of life or death. Get your priorities straight. …well, perhaps not ‘straight’ as such…
With her vile concoction brewed and artfully decorated, all that was needed was a waiter who could deliver it to the soon-to-be-lovebirds without arousing suspicion…and, fortunately, it seems a nice Orthodox Jewish gentleman was on hand to take over that job. Not sure if he’s a regular employee of that cafe, or he just wanted to lend a hand to a worthy cause. It’s hard to keep track of all of these new characters…
More on Monday.