Spy x Family vol. 9

In this volume, Anya’s actions indirectly cause the deaths of two people.  They were both thugs who were trying to kill the family that Yor has been trying to protect during this arc.  Which makes it all okay, right?

Extremely dubious involvement of an elementary schooler in a battle of assassins aside this volume is chock full of the usual “Spy x Family” shenanigans.  We see Anya try to talk up her adventures on a cruise ship to her classmates, only to realize she can’t tell them the entire truth.  Which is how she wound up saving everyone from the octopeople.  Meanwhile, Loid and Bond bond some more during a walk and wind up tangling with a serial arsonist.  Then, in what would be the other most questionable story in this volume, Becky decides to finally confess her love to Loid.

Proving that he’s the best secret agent out there, Anya’s fake dad remains completely oblivious to the elementary school girl’s come-ons and even tries to surreptitiously pump her for information about her industrialist father.  It’s not the best story about unrequited love in this volume, though.  That would be the one in the last chapter as everyone’s favorite lovesick spy, Nightfall, returns.  Not to team up with her one true love, Twilight.  No, that would be too easy.  Circumstances force her to team up with his gadget man, Franky, instead.

As is the case with just about everything in this series, that winds up being a fun bit of shenanigans.  That’s true of this volume as a whole (with the exception noted above) even as I start to wonder if this series will ever be more than that.  There’s nothing wrong with that, and I wonder if I’m repeating myself here, but don’t you think something this popular should be better than “fun enough?”