Loli haet water

More of the same from Kure-nai this week, that is, Murasaki learning the ways of the real world and causing quite a bit of chaos along the way. Even though they’ve done this for three episodes already, I don’t find myself tiring of it, I could probably watch an entire 13 episodes of Murasaki’s antics. However, having said that, I think this might be the last purely “slice of life” episode we’re going to get, the end of the episode suggesting we’re about to head into the deep end of the story line.

Murasaki and Tamaki are lounging around watching daytime dramas and lamenting the lack of good men in the world, Tamaki enlightening Murasaki of how all men will melt a woman’s hand if you just throw them some praise. Murasaki thinks that that kind of man is stupid, but doesn’t realize the irony in her statement, how close she is to such a man.

Meanwhile, at school, Shinkurou is having lunch with Yuuno, venting about how troublesome it can be to be someone’s bodyguard, furthermore, lying and telling her that Murasaki is an old geezer instead of a loli. Suddenly, he gets an e-mail from Ginko, followed by a call, asking him to come see her asap. Abandoning Yuuno before he gets a chance to finish the lunch she made him, he goes to see Ginko, who immediately points out his indecency for hanging around a person like Yuuno. Ginko hasn’t found any new information about the Kuhouins, but does have a job for Shinkurou.

Elsewhere, Murasaki and Tamaki have arrived at Shinkurou’s school, according to Tamaki, in search of a good man. The two get separated pretty quickly and Murasaki ends up wandering the school alone, visiting various sports clubs while searching for Shinkurou. She eventually finds herself in the school’s science room where she sees one of those mannequins used for studying internal anatomy. Thinking it’s a real person and scared that he has half his “skin” torn off, Murasaki calls Shinkurou and asks him what she should do. Shinkurou misunderstands the situation and thinks that she might have wandered into Tamaki’s room, and tells Murasaki not to touch anything.

As her journey around the school continues, Murasaki bumps into Yuuno, who instantly recognizes the Kuhouin family name, but Murasaki doesn’t recognize her’s, Houzuki. Elsewhere, Shinkurou overhears a bunch of guys talking about a little girl wandering about, one with a haughty attitude and an exaggerated manner of speech. Combined with seeing the mannequin Murasaki described earlier, Shinkurou calls her to confirm his suspicions, and indeed, she is the girl everyone’s talking about wandering around school.

At the same time, Murasaki is beginning to become suspicious of Yuuno, who knows of her family, yet shows no distinct ties. The three of them run around the school trying to find each other, and soon enough, their paths intersect leading to one awkward conversation in which Shinkurou’s lie about who he was acting as a bodyguard for is exposed and Murasaki is forced to accept that Yuuno wasn’t lying about being his acquaintance.

Afterwards, on the train ride home, Murasaki stirs up even more trouble. Seeing a bunch of punk high schoolers forcing an old lady out of her seat, she confronts them and asks them if they have no shame, demanding they give up their seats. As one of them gets worked up and is about to attack Murasaki, Shinkurou interrupts, but unexpectedly, does nothing but bow his head in apology. Even after being hit and spat on, he smiles and continues to apologize on Murasaki’s behalf.

When they get off the train, Murasaki explodes at Shinkurou, asking why he didn’t fight, even though he could have overpowered the high schoolers easily, it’s all for naught if he doesn’t act. Shinkurou tries to explain to her that there are places you can fight and places where you can’t, even though it might be the right thing to do, society doesn’t work that way. Murasaki still can’t accept it though, and begs him never to do that again, never to put on that fake smile, the same smile that her mother had while in the Kuhouin household, the smile she died with. But their display wasn’t for nothing, the old lady who was forced out of her seat approaches them and offers her thanks for standing up for her, praising the morals of Murasaki, despite her being so young.

Later that night, Shinkurou takes a call from Ginko about the job she offered him that day. Before setting out, he checks on Murasaki, who pretends to be asleep even though she had overheard his call and is wide awake. Wondering why he’s leaving her alone at night, Murasaki follows Shinkurou, all under the watch of Yayoi, who calls Benika for advice on how to proceed. Benika tells her to keep an eye on them, but not to interfere unless absolutely necessary. And so begins a trail of stalking with Shinkurou at the lead, Murasaki close behind and Yayoi bringing up the rear.

Thoughts

What kind of manners do they teach in the Kuhouin household, no matter how sheltered one may be, it’s a basic rule of etiquette that it’s rude to point at people, something which Murasaki tends to do a lot. I would have thought at least basic social rules like that would have been taught, imagine the repercussions if she were to do the same thing to a guest at the Kuhouin household. And despite being scolded by Shinkurou for it last episode, she still hasn’t come to terms with the fact that random people are not her servants.

But alas, Murasaki’s ignorance of the world of commoners is part of her charm, so I suppose it’s counterproductive to poke at it.

Perhaps more interesting this week was Ginko and Yuuno, both on seemingly good terms with Shinkurou (read: they want in his pants) yet have nothing but apathy for each other, or at least on Ginko’s side.

Looks like Ginko and Shinkurou are childhood friends of sorts, talking about a time when Shinkurou vowed to open a ramen shop with her. Perhaps they once had a relationship that went beyond the borders of friendship? Though…judging at how dense Shinkurou comes off as, I doubt it. Ginko annoys me a little, with her constant ragging about how indecent Yuuno is, not realizing that insulting her behind her back doesn’t make her any better. It’s clear she hates her because she comes on to Shinkurou, but she needs to man up and say it to her face.

However, Yuuno does have an air of sluttyness about her. Though, realistically she probably fulfills the untouchable school idol role, judging from Shinkurou’s friends calling him a lucky bastard for having been handed the opportunity to hit it.

On the plot side of things, she’s the only one outside the Benika/Ginko loop who knows of the Kuhouin name. Which strikes me as odd actually, you’d think that a family who holds themselves in such high esteem and is the acclaimed as a center of power would be well known even among commoners. But I digress, seems like the Houzuki’s have some tie to the Kuhouins, Yuuno surprised that Murasaki didn’t recognize her name.

These exchanges may seem innocent, but Shinkurou is being pretty stupid about all this. Exposing Murasaki to more people puts her in needless danger, spreading information about being her bodyguard and consequently giving away her location will probably come back to bite him.

Next episode looks like it’ll be a bit more serious, Murasaki is on Shinkurou’s tail as he goes on one of his jobs so she’ll no doubt see the horrors of him fighting and the completely different person he becomes while doing so. Initially it’ll probably shock and scare her, but she’ll come to understand it soon enough, and probably realize exactly what he meant at the train station when he said there’s a time and place for fighting.

Interesting to see how Yayoi hangs around outside Shinkurou’s apartment though, seems like Benika doesn’t have full trust in his skills just yet.

lol @ Yayoi was playing cell phone games to pass the time

~ Shirukii ~