Chapter 35: Where's The Tsuchinoko Monster?

Okarun listens as one of the doorway women speaks, and Jiji reveals these visitors are his landlords, the Kito Family, asking him to play dumb about the patched hole since the place is rented. Pressed by Naki on why he vanished, Jiji says he went to invite Okarun. When he denies planning to hire more spirit mediums, she brandishes a shotgun and cites her hunting license as a veiled threat, prompting Jiji to retort that pointing a gun still means arrest. The Kito men then show up with an officer who bailed them out after locals ran them off. To test the friendship, one quizzes Okarun on Jiji's favorite soccer team, and he answers correctly using the poster over the hole, though Naki catches Jiji lying about bringing a girl home. Meanwhile Momo visits the Tsuchinoko shrine, finds the priest doing a handstand for his Bootuber dreams, and is let down by the creature on display. The priest shares the legend of human sacrifices once made to calm the volcano and notes the exhibit is merely shed skin. Back at the house, Momo comes upon the two boys sprawled and bruised across the floorboards.

Spotting that Jiji came back with Okarun, the women suspect another hired medium is staining the landlord family's name. As Officer Tsuru escorts the Kito men home, Naki hints she would kill the boys, waving her rifle. After much questioning, Jiji denies knowing Momo, which infuriates Naki. At the Tsuchinoko Shrine, the priest Manjiro recounts the sorrowful legend of the Great Serpent to Momo. She heads back to find both boys downed on the floorboards while the Kitos prep their festival.

Titled Where's The Tsuchinoko Monster?, this entry is number 35 in the Dandadan manga, belonging to the Cursed House Arc of the Kintama Hunt Saga. Its 19 pages sit in Volume 5, it released December 7, 2021, and Episode 13 adapts it.