Chapter 5

The fight inside the tower reaches its lowest floor after Taro's punch sends Bacho crashing through the ceiling. Cornered, Son Hee offers Lu a graceful end in exchange for the family key, but she would rather die than surrender it. He sneers that her mother and father once voiced the very same refusal before dying wretchedly, classless in his eyes for guarding a trinket over their own survival. The taunt nearly goads Lu into a reckless charge, until Taro holds her back and Shin warns her against swallowing cheap provocations.

When Son Hee flings a blade toward Lu, Taro plucks it from the air. The two killers unleash their paired Tofu Scramble flurry, yet every slash misses, a first that rattles Son Hee. Before their finishing technique can land, Taro flattens Bacho with a cooking pot and shatters Son Hee's weapon using a frying pan. Son Hee lunges straight for Lu, but Shin reads the intent, ropes him to the floor, and Taro closes the fight with a hurled refrigerator. Asked who they truly are, the pair simply call themselves ordinary shopkeepers.

Wang waits at the Lu family vault, oblivious that his hired killers have already fallen, until Taro and Shin haul the unconscious duo into view. Lu slips behind Wang before he can flee, and his frantic apology earns only a beating as she tells him regret cannot restore her parents. Rather than hunt everyone who wronged her, she repeats her father's lesson that a contented life is the truest payback.

Turning the key, Lu opens a safe piled with gold, jewels, and toys that stuns all three. An inventory record shows each piece was once the single most prized possession of a past head of the family. Lu finds her own father's entry, a bottle of sake left to be shared once she came of age.

The chapter closes on a lighter beat as Lu drinks the bottle with Taro and Shin while Taro produces the pork buns crushed during the brawl. With nowhere else to go, she signs on at the Sakamoto shop, refusing to sell her inherited treasures even after Shin notes their worth. Her haphazard stocking, detergent tucked into the refrigerator included, does not faze her, while Taro nurses the aftermath of the celebration.

Titled Vs. Son Hee and Bacho, it stands as the series' fifth chapter, set within the Amusement Park Arc and gathered into volume one. The nineteen-page chapter ran in the combined third and fourth 2021 issue, with a cover that lines up Son Hee, Bacho, Lu Shaotang, Shin, and Sakamoto.