Dandadan Chapter 154

Foster care hardens Unji further—three-on-one beatings for a scowl, a brick for an answer. As a teen he forges a gang, points them at cops, and gets collared by Vega, the same officer who will later unlock his door, set a bowl on the table, and call himself guardian.

Vega’s “rehab” isn’t sentiment; it’s discipline with a grief-shaped core. Attempts to cheap-shot him in sleep stall at a family photo. A question finally lands: why take me in? Vega’s answer is a scar—wife and daughter murdered by a man who “hated the world.” He refuses to let rot go unchallenged.

The chapter reframes the pair: a boy too angry to drown and a cop too broken to quit. dandadan manga plants the seed that will later pull Unji back from a devil’s whisper.