Chapter 161

Shishiba tells Amane that a contract drove him to kill Satoru Yotsumura, and when he declines to say more, Amane realizes his father was shielding him all along by warning Shishiba never to learn too much about an enemy. The Carolina Reaper tries to strike while Amane reels from the news, but Shishiba steps in, cracking Carolina in the skull even as the assassin rips open his side.

Seeing how badly Shishiba is hurt, Amane resolves to guard him just as Kumanomi drops in behind. He pivots to meet her, but a buzzsaw bursts up through the ground between them, tearing across the floor and forcing a pause. The blade circles the room, and as Carolina warns Kumanomi about someone beneath them, it carves a ring around him and drops him through the floor.

Moments later the Carolina Reaper's dismembered remains are flung back up, and Osaragi hauls herself out of the gap. Spotting Shishiba's wounds, she wrongly blames Amane, seizing his throat while Shishiba weakly tries to stop her. Down in the storage vault, Nagumo puzzles over how Slur endured a strike that should have pierced the heart, and the chapter ends as the Rion side of Slur emerges and addresses him by name, unsettling him with Rion's familiar manner.

Shishiba explains that killing Satoru was a job, and Amane grasps that his father was protecting him. Shishiba and the Carolina Reaper wound each other badly before a hidden buzzsaw drops Carolina through the floor. Osaragi emerges having dismembered him, then mistakenly chokes Amane over Shishiba's injuries. In the vault, Nagumo reels as the Rion personality surfaces within Slur and greets him by name.

Titled Shark, this is the one hundred and sixty-first chapter of Sakamoto Days within the Assassin Exhibition of the Century Arc. It ran in the nineteenth 2024 issue on April 8, 2024, and spans nineteen pages in Volume 18. Shishiba and Amane Yotsumura share the cover. Satoru Yotsumura features in flashback and Rion Akao is referenced, with a nod to Osaragi's entrance echoing Sadako's crawl in The Ring.