Spy x Family

Dumping, sorry for delay.

what a good wife

And as short chapters go I think it was pretty good.

Interesting that McMahon could retire if he wanted to, but is continuing to work for Garden willingly because they want him there.

Nice to have confirmation on his age as well, and a nice cameo from Dominic.

Are we certain Garden would let any of their workers go?

Interesting that McMahon could retire if he wanted to, but is continuing to work for Garden willingly because they want him there.

I wonder if this is true. His wife being surprised by his injury tells me she has no idea about Garden. If he says he can't leave, it's going to make her suspicious.

lazy writing why wouldn't he show the souvenirs

I doubt she knows specifics, but him saying he and his wife don't talk about his job rather than him saying she thinks he has a normal job suggests she knows at least does something not mundane. He is just good enough that, like Yor, he normally doesn't get hurt.

Are we certain they wouldn't?

Drawing manga very hard please understand can't do more than 6 pages with one being half recycled in these 2 weeks

him saying he and his wife don't talk about his job rather than him saying she thinks he has a normal job suggests she knows at least does something not mundane

I don't know if I agree with that. I don't see why he'd need to clarify that she's a civilian unless it was an explanation for why she doesn't know. Yor backs this up by saying she's in the same situation.

Are we certain they wouldn't?

We haven't had anything concrete that says Shopkeeper wouldn't let them retire, but positions like these are ones you generally don't get to just leave. They know way too much.

Although getting more info about McMahon and more subtle details about Garden is nice, an extra chapter when things are getting good just feels bad. Put this at the end of this arc if we aren't getting a Shopkeeper extra.

It sorta feels like Axeman is gauging reader reactions and theories about Hemlock before continuing and buying some time.

Also his wife is a lot colder than I expected. The marriage works but it's business first, passion second. No one but the Authens are allowed to be happily married it seems.

It's obvious he forgot about souvenires after everything that happened
Retard

The souvenir is his life, anon.

theories about Hemlock

What are people guessing on the nip sites? Same as us?

Know what exactly?
We knew that garden is independent organization.
Theyd didn't even work for the government, they work for their idealistic vision of their kingdom, yes not country, kingdom.
To me, the last few chapters have been axeman trying to solidified that garden is a "good" organization with crazy members.

I don't think Shopkeeper and Hemlock are good people

Also his wife is a lot colder than I expected. The marriage works but it's business first, passion second. No one but the Authens are allowed to be happily married it seems.

I think his marriage is supposed to be happy, his wife is just a little prickly and domineering (which is how he described her earlier). She complains but she ultimately does everything she can for him and is concerned for his welfare.

That's why i put the quotation marks.

I can see Hemlock being seen that way, but everything we've learned about Shopkeeper in this arc so far is painting him as substantially more benevolent than many theorized until now. I mean who would have expected before this that he outright says no to most assassination requests from the government?

there is a certain distance between them though

I genuinely thought that garden is going to be the government secret elite operatives.
Turn out garden is just a mercenary.

Their sentiments about the latest chapters are pretty much the same as here.
Hemlock is either jealous or disappointed in her. Maybe he has a crush and is just autistic or yet another abusive tsundere. Or maybe he's just bloodthirsty and a result of what happens when you take the job too seriously and don't have something to domesticate you.
And they too are fixated on the welcome home kiss

They seem quite loving for people who survived two wars.

It would be hilarious if hemlock turned out have a wife and he's projecting.

Authens were loving not these two

Not all marriages need to be taken straight from the fairytale to be seen as loving.

Perhaps this is just how McMahon is but he seems very formal with her. There is affection and it's not an unhappy marriage but it seems very polite.
Sorta like when Loid and Yor first got married and were worried about offending each other

this one feels a business marriage mostly with some passion here and there kind of like Loid/Yor

Know what exactly?

Theyd didn't even work for the government, they work for their idealistic vision of their kingdom, yes not country, kingdom.

Not working for the government doesn't mean it isn't a secret organization, and those secrets are clearly very closely guarded. Remember that even WISE doesn't know about them. Yor couldn't even tell Yuri.

To me, the last few chapters have been axeman trying to solidified that garden is a "good" organization with crazy members.

No one in the manga is cartoonishly evil, but Shopkeeper is not a good guy. Garden recruits children and turns them into weapons, and even after they dedicate their entire lives to the cause, they can be killed for the crime of being out of practice.
If not wanting to plunge the country into war makes you a "good" guy then sure, Garden are "good" guys, but Anya's scientists are potentially also "good" guys by that metric. Shopkeeper has been framed as being very bad for the main characters. He's attempted to kill Yor and is extremely suspicious of Loid. He wasn't exactly thrilled about Yor's concern for the family either.

I think Hemlock is probably mind warped like Yor was, but he's also just an overgrown kid throwing a temper tantrum. Shopkeeper is bad news, though.

He's attempted to kill Yor

That was a single jab as a test. I doubt among Garden that is considered a serious attempt to kill. Plus we've seen how durable Yor is, I doubt that would have killed her even if it hit.

and is extremely suspicious of Loid.

Apparently only because he is suspicious of politics in general, and Yor just made it sound like Loid wants to join Desmond's party.

He wasn't exactly thrilled about Yor's concern for the family either.

I'm withholding judgment on that given how hard Shopkeeper can be to read. If he really was so against his assassins valuing family then he'd advocate for Hemlock's beliefs that they should be completely detached from normal lives, yet he does not do this. In this chapter McMahon outright refuses an invitation from him in order to go home to his wife, and Shopkeeper doesn't appear to have any issue with it.

How does Garden feel about BORDERS?

That was a single jab as a test.

The point is that if she'd failed that test, she would have died, and he was okay with that.

Plus we've seen how durable Yor is, I doubt that would have killed her even if it hit.

Yor is durable against blunt force trauma. All stab wounds have hurt her. She thought she was going to die to the samurai's sword. Also, Shopkeeper's strike split the air in the anime and had Yor's "energy emphasis" (idk what to call that) effect in the manga. And it was aimed at her head. It would have killed her.

Loid

The point is just that he was shown hostile. He is the only character that has been shown as hostile to multiple Forgers. That's not for nothing. You don't do that when you want to make a character look like a good guy.

I think you're also missing the elephant in the room that Loid is Twilight. Shopkeeper is still framed as anti-west, and Garden has a history of killing Ostanians that help them. He's not going to be okay with their spies snooping around in his country.

Yor is durable against blunt force trauma. All stab wounds have hurt her. She thought she was going to die to the samurai's sword.

I would say it's not bladed weapons she is specifically vulnerable to, given she regarded Barnaby's sickle as not being capable of killing her.

>Loid

The point is just that he was shown hostile. He is the only character that has been shown as hostile to multiple Forgers. That's not for nothing. You don't do that when you want to make a character look like a good guy.

Was he even hostile to Loid? As I recall all he did was frown a bit for one screen.

I think you're also missing the elephant in the room that Loid is Twilight. Shopkeeper is still framed as anti-west, and Garden has a history of killing Ostanians that help them.

I'm not entirely convinced that is enough, or else he'd have Garden oppose the various legal ways Ostania and Westalis are currently cooperating. Franky's informants are mostly criminals who prioritize money rather than people interested in supporting the West, and we've been told by the author that Franky's understanding of Garden is not the truth.

I'm not entirely convinced that is enough, or else he'd have Garden oppose the various legal ways Ostania and Westalis are currently cooperating.

I'm confused. What? There's a big difference between being okay with this and being okay with their spies in his country.

and Shopkeeper doesn't appear to have any issue with it

In fairness we don't get to see his reaction to McMahon's rejection, it just cuts immediately to the next scene. No verbal affirmative response either. He often lets Yor do whatever she asks even when he's got a seemingly negative reaction so it's still hard to say.

Sexy

Yor works off wonder woman rules. Bullets and blades still hurt her.

same age as Henderson

Nice to soft confirm it was him after all. Looks like the family photos also match. It does make me wonder how he got recruited though.
Also Keekee a cute.