Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai Ep.09 - What's inside Kaya? Chie is so cool!

Episode 9 of Kaya-chan wa Kowakunai (Kaya-chan isn't Scary) is a plot-heavy episode without the "wraith of the week" format we have seen until now, which is a refreshing change. Instead, the focus is on Ebisumori Namu's childhood and Kaya's powers and identity.

Namu was a child who, much like Kaya, was shunned and mistreated by others because of his powers, which made him see things differently. There was no one like Chie in his early childhood, which caused him to experience one trauma after another until Osamu appeared while he was at the hospital.

This was downright scary to see, but thankfully Chie managed to fix Kaya for now. Issue is, now what?

Kaya had her own reasons for all the tantrums even if other people didn't understand

Osamu, despite his lack of any serious power, was adamant about protecting him (following Kaya saving him, as we know from a previous episode) and faced many risks, including encountering a wraith, to try to protect him. Namu realized that although he was not normal, he was also not alone, which created the "master-disciple" relationship we now know of between the two.

Honestly, judging by his looks alone, I thought Namu was in his late 20s or early 30s, but timeline-wise that could not be the case because Osamu was only saved by Kaya when she was a toddler. Adding that to the perceived age of Namu in the flashback places him in his late teens or early 20s at most. I guess supernatural powers make you age poorly.

Returning to the current timeline, Namu is trying to kill Kaya by extracting her from her body. He is certain that she is some sort of monster and not human at all, due to the years of experimentation the Ebisumori family performed on their bloodline to try and extract more and more power.

Chie manages to fight back with a rather emotional speech (a small glimpse of which can be seen in the attached video), and her love brings Kaya back into her body. Now, I do not think that Namu knows the whole story because he was removed from the Ebisumori family early on, which leads me to believe he is just assuming things. I still lean toward the "god" speculation I made last week for Kaya's identity rather than her being just a "wraith".

So it's all her and the predecessor fault after all. Poor kids, all for what...

This was absolutely so cute. She was so unease and scared because her powers didn't work on humans.

But what happens now? If Kaya is like that, does it mean that Mirai's unborn child is just "another Kaya" or something else? We do not know what Mirai looked like before Kaya was born, so we do not know if the circumstances are the same, but it definitely creates a conundrum regarding how to resolve that problem.

With only three episodes remaining before the end of the series and the original manga still ongoing, we are sure to get an incomplete ending. I will definitely pick up the manga and start writing about it once this is finished; the story is far too compelling to stop here without a final resolution.