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Kawaki Academy Arc: If It Weren’t For You Meddling Kids

So we start with a sweet scene of the kids visiting Hana-sensei in the hospital. Osuka begs her to come back soon because Shino-sensei’s lessons are too boring. The other kids remind Osuka that Hana-sensei literally had a building dropped on her, so maybe she deserves a sick day or two.

Next wee see Naruto and Shikamaru asking Kawaki what the hell he was thinking, not telling them about the assassin. Kawaki shrugs and says he was getting around to it. The adults are ticked, but they can’t exactly punish Kawaki since he’s a ticking time bomb, so Naruto just grounds him.

Meanwhile, Kae is sad because she thinks Kawaki was only pretending to be her friend, because someone who actually liked Kae would have told her about the mission. Her butler points out that shinobi aren’t exactly known for their transparency, and Kae has the lightbulb moment that ninjas can have secrets...even from their friends!

So Kawaki is laying around sulking about how the mission is over. Himawari comes in and tells him to stop being grounded because the plot still needs to happen. They loop Eiki into their investigation, but his family connection to the police force proves absolutely useless. So the trio decide to try their last resort: they approach Sosha.

Sosha is suspicious of why they want memento photos of a failed school festival. Eiki lies and tells Sosha he fell in love at first sight with a girl from the festival. Sosha teases him for moving on from Princess Kae so fast, but hands the pictures over anyway. Even though we live in a world of computers and drones, Sosha can only give them polaroids.

Kawaki and Himawari spot Batora in one of the festivals looking shady. If you remember, he said he couldn’t make it to the festival, which means he is a LIAR. So our dynamic duo ditches Eiki and runs off to confront the big bad butler.

At the mansion, all of the extra security ninjas have been knocked out. Kawaki sees Batora with a kunai standing over Kae’s bed. Kawaki breaks through the glass door with his bare fist, and he’s one second away from beating Batora down when the butler just...keels over. Kae screams because her precious butler just got wounded defending her.

Purple Mask then skitters out from behind the bed. Kawaki chases them out to the garden, but instead of the measly kunais they used last time, Purple Mask shoots off a dozen shadow flame missiles. WHY DIDN’T YOU START WITH THOSE, ASSASSIN-CHAN?

But Kawaki is wearing the protagonist hat today, so he corners the assassin to a wall. Purple Mask rips off their cloak to reveal a bunch of exploding tags. Cue self-immolation.

Kawaki joins Himawari, Kae, and Batora in the princess’s room to clear the air. Batora explains he wasn’t intending to be at the festival, but he was chasing down a suspicious figure he’d seen nearby, and he followed said figure onto the Academy grounds. Kae then asks Kawaki if it’s true he delayed reporting the assassination so she could enjoy the festival. Kawaki refuses to answer, but everyone in the room is fluent in tsundere, so they realize Kawaki does consider the princess a friend.

Later, at the debriefing, Naruto and Shikamaru say the assassin’s body is too burnt to identify, but they did find messages from the Land of Bamboo. Apparently the mastermind was the prince’s caretaker, who was conveniently arrested off-screen.

The next day, we see Sosha handing out her latest expose: “A new love interest appears: Has Makeout Paradise turned Eiki into a playboy?” At this point, Sosha’s newspaper is starting to feel less like journalism and more like bullying. But that’s an after school special for another day.

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