Dandadan Chapter 169

Sprinting back to the library, Okarun bumps into Sanjome—the school’s resident oddball, who delivers a monologue about noise canceling, metronomes, and bacteria before asking if Okarun “yields” to this knowledge. The word choice rings a bell. A pocketed knife flashes and disappears; Sanjome wanders off, interest piqued.

Aira hides Momo in her blazer to help ID the attacker. Asked for details, Momo recalls long hair and that chilling verb: “yield.” It matches Sanjome’s phrasing, sending Okarun’s thoughts racing—until Aira misreads his whispering as flirting and Momo, mortified, brains him with a telekinetic chair. The comedy doesn’t blunt the danger; it only reminds us how close they stand.

Elsewhere a muffled voice—an Orchestrator—lectures the knife‑girl, Koki Yukishiro: she failed because her target didn’t yield. To truly steal power, she must surrender to “it.” As pygmies gather behind her, dandadan Chapter 169 sharpens the new arc’s hook: consent twisted into a weapon, and an unseen conductor pulling strings.