Dandadan Chapter 176

Momo’s team turns caution into strategy. Koki changes out of her soiled uniform, Aira and Kinta bicker, and Kinta fits a nanoskin “hair accessory” camera to quietly log every teacher contact—bait for flushing out whoever armed Koki with a power‑stealing knife. Okarun, glum over failing to fix Momo’s size even after finding the pygmies, vows to level up; Momo shoots that down as nonsense and points him toward Seiko’s training.

Meanwhile, Seiko works the problem like a pro. Over dinner with Payase, a collector of cursed objects, and his partner Kashimoto, she offloads the Fairy‑Tale Card’s trunk for safekeeping and asks for a cure for a “pygmy” condition. The answer is folklore‑precise: the Uchide‑no‑kozuchi—Daikokuten/Ōkuninushi’s wish‑granting mallet that once grew Issun‑bōshi—pointing Seiko to Izumo Taisha.

The table flips when a flock of jiangshi storms the restaurant. Scattering the Bait sets two tracks in motion—Seiko’s quest for a divine fix, and the school team’s surveillance net—promising they’ll collide sooner than anyone wants.