Dandadan Chapter 157

This dandadan chapter is a character study of Masamichi Bega, written in prayer and restraint. On the way to the Zuma family grave, Unji refuses to glamourize the river rescue—ten seconds or not, a cop shouldn’t leap in just to drown. At the graveside he finally speaks of Futa: rubber boots, a cheap umbrella, a mother’s smile returning for one bright day. He survived. They didn’t. Bega answers not with lectures but with a palm pressed to hair and a simple order: don’t die.

The memory closes like a lid and the present surges back. Momo wakes, the cursed Danmara groans, and the Fairy-Tale Card reaches to fuse with Unji—until Bega’s voice, embedded in Unji’s spine, pulls him one step back from the yokai’s grasp. The spirit flees upward to escape the trunk; outside, Rin is readying the release.

Masamichi Bega frames dandadan’s thesis that found family is a decision renewed daily. It’s not just a cop and a punk; it’s mercy as a regimen. When everything collapses, the chapter argues, the words that stick are often the fewest: eat, pray, live, come home.